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Please help me to identify my Clematis

Ladybird4Ladybird4 Posts: 37,906
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This Clematis is growing through the Camellia in my front garden (getting a bit battered by the wind!) Can anyone help me to identify it. All I know is that it is not a Montana.



The top picture (on my laptop aty least) is a truer picture of the colour. It is not as dark as it appears in the second picture. Thank you in advance!
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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited October 2018
    Does it cling to supports by twining its leaf stems around them, or is it a non-clinging  scrambler?

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





  • Ladybird4Ladybird4 Posts: 37,906
    edited October 2018
    Its a twiner Dove. I have a vague recall it is a Viticella but for the life of me I cannot a) remember its name or b) find the label!
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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Abigail?  - http://www.clematis.hull.ac.uk/new-clemdetail.cfm?dbkey=3260

    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
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Oh  :(  I was thinking it might be Sweetheart, which I saw not long ago and which is a lovely clematis ... but it's not a twiner .... neither is Hendryetta which is also a similar pink with four petals.  

    Scratches head and goes to bookcase ............ 

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





  • Ladybird4Ladybird4 Posts: 37,906
    It has 4 tepals/petals PF. I just have a feeling that once someone says a name a light bulb will switch on in my head. Well thats what I'm hoping anyway. It isn't Abigail Obelixx but thank you.
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  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Try that thing of 'going through the alphabet' L'bird. Saying the letter sometimes rings a bell  :)
    It's not one I recognise, so can't help. Perhaps Richard will see it.  

    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    You can do a search on that website - just put in colour of tepals and anthers and viticella and you'll get a list.   Only 4 pink tepals/cream stamens/viticella results and Abigail was the nearest so try with yellow stamens or white and see what that gets you.
    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
  • Ladybird4Ladybird4 Posts: 37,906
    Thank you for the tip Fairygirl. I'll give that a go.
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  • MarlorenaMarlorena Posts: 8,705
    I think it's 'Abundance'...   see what you think..?
    East Anglia, England
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    I think Marlorena is right.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
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