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Mystery plant
can anyone help me to identify this beautiful plant? It's well established in the border at the back of my new house, but I can't find it online or in any of my plant books, & Facebook friends are helping with comments like 'It's purple' and 'It's pretty'!
The flowers are sweet scented. It's leaning quite a lot partly because it's raining hard, & partly because it was being choked by bindweed until a few days ago.
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Can you do a close up of the flower head, and one of the leaves please?
Looks like one of the herbaceous clematis.
Any good?
Yes, Hosta is right.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Fantastic - thank you!! ?
It looks very much like the one I have in my garden which is called Clematis "New Love" Its a group 3 one so can be cut right down every spring.
It's some form of Clematis heracleifolia, but probably not the variety shown in Bright Star's photo--the flowers are smaller and paler. It'll die down completely in winter.