One of the longest blooming clematis vines. * Size: Twines its way up a support only 5 or 6 feet. Space 3 feet apart if you're planting more than one along a wide support. * Where to use ...

Mr. Long has amassed a collection of more than 400 kinds of Clematis. He can count on them to bloom from early spring through late fall, but he always has his eye out for exceptional additions ...

M.B.: You may be thinking of the Raymond Evison patio clematis, a new group of varieties with a long bloom season (May-October in my garden) and bred for containers, with a compact growth habit.

They'll interplay in fond embrace. At White Flower Farm the clematis Etoile Violette clambers up the thorny canes of the pink climber New Dawn. They bloom together in June, then again through summer.