Hey thanks for the kind words everyone
I don't know what that clematis is called, my husband had planted that a few years before he became my husband
--he just told me it was a clematis! I don't have to do anything to maintain it except cut it back hard in the spring. All the dead growth from the previous year and it's usually greening and starting to vine when I do it.
The black-eyed susan vine I usually can find at Lowe's but you have to get them early before everyone else does. It takes lots of water, but it's growing on the east side of the garage and most of the rain we get comes from the west. It's a great showy low maintenance plant!
Yes, I love my frogs! I have a stray cat I call "Little Gray" (she's little and she's gray
) and she was flipping out my frogs and playing with them until they "croaked". But now they are so big, she leaves them alone!