Which is the bluest clematis?

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• Bijdezee Posts: 1,484

  May 2018

  What do you mean by bluest? Darkest blue?
  
  I have one called 'the president' and it looks like this:-
  
  
  
  

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• fidgetbones Posts: 17,618

  May 2018

  I think all "blue " clematis are really shades of purple.  Even Multiblue which I have.
  

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• theluciblack Posts: 38

  May 2018 edited May 2018

  Bijdezee that is 😍
  
  i mean the most like a true blue rather than a violet/lavender/etc

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• theluciblack Posts: 38

  May 2018

  Daaaaaamn... 🙁

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• Bijdezee Posts: 1,484

  May 2018

  Yes, i should have put that its got a purple tone to it. 

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• Paul B3 Posts: 3,154

  May 2018

  I only grow the herbaceous kinds ; my favourite of them all , Clematis heracleifolia 'Cassandra' . Flowers in August .
  

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• Fairygirl Posts: 55,117

  May 2018

  No matter what colour you have - the flowers will alter depending on how mature they are, what the conditions are like, and whether the plant is in a sunny or a shadier site. Sun will tend to fade the stronger colours quite considerably. 
  Young flowers on a plant are often quite different from from older ones too.  

  It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
  
  
  
  I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...

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• theluciblack Posts: 38

  May 2018

  Lots to think about! Thanks all 🙂

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• DimWit Posts: 553

  May 2018

  Another vote for herbaceous clematis, C. integrifolia, quite blue when it fancies to be so:
  
  
  

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• Blue Onion Posts: 2,995

  May 2018

  Are you dead set on a clematis, or will another blue flower do?  My penstemon are the most electric shade of true blue fading to purple.  
  
  If you're set on a climber, there are a wide variety of blue morning glories.  Annual, but vigorous.. and they reseed fairly well in the area they were grown in previously.  Bit like nasturtium do.  

  Utah, USA.

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