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Am I mistaken...

CharlotteFCharlotteF Posts: 337
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... or has a clematis of some kind seeded into my border? 
Not sure what to do with it; how long would I be waiting for flowers to see what it is?

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  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    I'd say that was a clematis. Whether from a cultivated one or Old Mans beard, only time will tell.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    There is a clematis weed. Clematis vitalba.
    Also, some planted clematis will apparently die, lurk underground for many years and pop up when it suits them.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    It looks rather like my winter flowering evergreen clematis 'Freckles'. If it is, you've got a very nice plant (if you have room for it!).
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • CharlotteFCharlotteF Posts: 337
    I think I'll have to pot it up and wait and see then 😁 Certain it's a seedling, I haven't had clematis planted there and it's a newish border. There are several on the fences nearby though.
    Even if it's wild vitalba I'll find a spot for it - it could fight it out with the honeysuckle and brambles on the railway boundary chain link! 
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    My ‘freckles’ can (and does) send out wandering branches through crammed borders, which take root and grow several yards away from the plant … every year I pull several up and either pot them up and give them away, or discard them if I’ve a terrace full of them. 

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





  • CharlotteFCharlotteF Posts: 337
    It's a strange shaped bit of border - I've taken the pic with my back to the fence, and the gravel you can see is a little 'hollow' among the bed for a seating area against the fence. I did have a perle d'azur there for a season before I moved it from its full-sun-distress, but that was over a metre away with no route through the border. I've definitely had seedheads on various clems though, just didn't realise they might self seed, I don't know why it hadn't occurred to me! 
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