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Clematis ID

Papi JoPapi Jo Posts: 4,254
edited April 2020 in Plants
Can anyone ID this clematis growing and flowering now in a friend's garden? Thanks!

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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Maybe purpurea plena elegans?

    http://clematisontheweb.org/new-clemdetail.cfm?dbkey=580 

    You can search that site giving tepal colour and anther colour plus flowering time etc to help whittle down the options.
    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
  • 1634 Racine1634 Racine Posts: 568
    Just saw this on Arrosoir et Secateurs.  It’s an interesting one alright.
  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,385
    edited April 2020
    It's not plena elegans as I grow that (group 3) and it is only growing shoots at the moment. Given the flowering time (now) I suspect it's a montana cultivar or hybrid, maybe a double which hasn't fully opened yet?
    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    I suspect this one is in France @BobTheGardener so may well be earlier than yours.
    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
  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,385
    It would have to be grown as group 2 in that case as mine won't come into flower until about June.
    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    We'll have to wait for @Papi Jo to come back with more info.
    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
  • lilysillylilysilly Posts: 511
    Broughton Star. 
  • Papi JoPapi Jo Posts: 4,254
    @Obelixx Yes,  this comes from a garden in Brittany, West coast of France. @lilysilly I have suggested Broughton Star to the garden owner, waiting for his reply.
    Thanks for all the suggestions.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Broughton Star is a good shout.   Funnily enough I had this in my Belgian garden and it grew like the clappers along a wire mesh fence but, just as the flower buds were forming, we had a -16C frost and the whole plant just died so I never saw the flowers and it never did a Lazarus like some of my other clems. 
    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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