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Claire204Claire204 Posts: 173
I bought this Clematis last year as an unknown - the gentleman selling said it was a white large flowered early flowering clematis. It has not flowered yet any ideas what it is? 

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  • Claire204Claire204 Posts: 173
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    From that description I wonder if it's Clematis montana Grandiflora alba?

    Mine hasn't flowered this year ... I think the Beast from the East upset it ... 

    But what's it doing still in it's pot? ... I'd get it planted asap  :)

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Claire204Claire204 Posts: 173
    I wanted to Id it first to make sure I wanted to keep it before planting. Just in case I was sold something uncontrollable 😊
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    If it's a montana it will be vigorous once planted properly but can be controlled by pruning - after flowering which happens in early to mid spring.   Bit cramped and hungry in that pot so no wonder it hasn't flowered.

    They like their roots in deeper than they were in the pot and they need good soil so plenty of well rotted manure and compost in the planting hole and generous watering till established.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    My first thought was C. Vitalba
    Devon.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited June 2018
    Hostafan1 said:
    My first thought was C. Vitalba
    Depends whether the chap selling it was reputable or not ... i.e. a reasonable nurseryman selling stuff that's lost it's label, or a shyster knowingly passing off a wild clematis from the hedgerow as a cultivated one ..... I wouldn't describe C. vitalba as 'large flowered' so if he's considered trustworthy I'd go with the montana grandiflora ...  the leaves look very like mine. 



    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Claire204Claire204 Posts: 173
    When would that variety flower, I think it's a wait and see job as I bought it from someone selling off garden plants on a stall 🙈
  • Claire204Claire204 Posts: 173
    Also he said he took cuttings from his clematis that was climbing up a tree and had very fragrant large white flowers? 
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Have a look at this - http://www.clematis.hull.ac.uk/new-clemdetail.cfm?dbkey=558

    You can search for the montana on the same site.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
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