Forced to Force It comments: 24

I accidentally hacked off a big branch of my clematis yesterday when I was cleaning up the yard. I wonder if this will work.

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Forcing is so magical. Good Luck with Nelly :)

oh, a happy accident...now you have a bit of spring in your kitchen...

oh, a happy accident...now you have a bit of spring in your kitchen...
love the new banner!

I hope so! Looks like a beautiful clematis.

Wow! Lovely. The bottom picture looks like some sort of Elizabeth Bennet tableau. Today is a BBC Pride and Prejudice/Colin Firth kind of day.

I've had good luck with this, hope you do too!

I've been reading your blog for a while now and I really enjoy it. It's so beautiful and inspiring. I like your Vanessa Bell smock a lot. I have been making lots of smocks and pinafores with seventies patterns and vintage materials. They are really comfortable. And individual, of course.

Alicia, didn't you mentions losing a quilt on a post? I know you have lost partially finished aphagans...but I mean like really lost a quilt. Well - it seems you are not the only one....here is a website that might be worth a try.
http://www.lostquilt.com/index.html
Who knew?
Love you blog...your ability to create with words is as magicial as your ability to create with your hands. Thank you for sharing your life with us.

You have a Nelly Moser? They're the BEST kind of clematis! My dad planted one for me in the garden of our old house because he always called me Nelly, and I turned into Nellimosa from then on. That's brought back lovely memories, thank you.

I love nelly moser too, please post a picture if it works out.. a gorgeous glimpse of spring! This morning, as a malicious act of not being taken out for a run in the pouring rain, my mental dog ate all three of my Hollyhocks that I had planted only last week, no amount of forcing will give them a second chance I afraid!

I love nelly moser too, please post a picture if it works out.. a gorgeous glimpse of spring! This morning, as a malicious act of not being taken out for a run in the pouring rain, my mental dog ate all three of my Hollyhocks that I had planted only last week, no amount of forcing will give them a second chance I afraid!

I am soooooo jealous. We live in Las Vegas, the land where nothing pretty grows. I am green with envy (pun intended).

waaaaaanhhhhhh, those are BUDS! We're buried in snow and an ice storm's looming.

sigh...another reason to adore you from afar.

I wish I could see something growing in the yard other than the drifting snow! Although I did manage to see some green poking out yesterday the only "yard work" we will be doing is with the snow shovel.

Happy accident, indeed! I so love clematis. Blossom of Mose may you bloom and grow, bloom and grow forever. :)

Such a lovely plant Alicia! Our poor old plants here are suffering. In this part of Australia,we read in this morning's paper that we are experiencing our "hottest February on record".Whew. Get that.As in EVER.It also states, regarding the policy of handwatering only on alternate days, that"some people, particularly older people, will simply not go out after dark, morning or night in the official hours allowed therefore the restrictions are causing some distress."Beautiful gardens built up over a lifetime are feeling the brunt of it.Gardens are such lovely things.The Nelly Moser is beautiful.

alicia, portland is so far ahead of Santa Rosa in its clematis bud formation! i grow both large flowered hybrids like nelly and the more dimunitive species forms and none of them have gorgeous buds like that.

CLematis make excellent cut flowers, I put them in arrangements all the time, but i have never seen buds that small open. Definitely change the water every other day and make sure the stem has an oblique cut align the stem to allow it to take up enough water. Some people swear by a few drops of bleach in the water as well. What usually causes flowers to go off quickly is funky stuff in the water. Let us know if it works!

Oh, yes. I have done such a thing myself. Good luck!

I just wanted to say that I was in Joan's today. I didn't remember which magazine it was that you were in, but I picked one up and browsed through it. I flipped very quickly (with three kids, you try to do all browsing as quickly as possible) and realized that I recognized your dog Audrey. I flipped back and bingo, that was the right magazine. I like it when these things happen easily. :)

I get the feeling of SPRINGTIME!
Let it come :)

There's often an oops! when I garden.

Even if it doesn't work...still such a pretty picture.

I don't know whether it will work or not . . . I'm just salivating at the sign of a live green thing that you brought in from OUTSIDE . . . as I sit watching the 5th inch of snow pile up against the windowsill.

I will have to ask my dad. He has some on the east side of the house... I do not know the name, but it is deep purple. He cuts it down every year and it keeps coming back... made it is destruction proof?