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clematis ' Marmalade '
richardhodson
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I have just received Registration documents from RHS for my new clematis ' Marmalade ' which I raised a few years ago. Here it is on our North facing fence last October. Correct name...clematis tibetana ssp vernayi Marmalade.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
How many others have you had registered?
tibetana ‘subsp. vernayi ‘Marmalade’ Tangutica Group
Parentage: Selected from Clematis tibetana subsp. vernayi
S: R. Hodson (2016), G: R. Hodson (2018), N: R. Hodson (2021), I: Hawthornes Clematis Nursery (2022), REG: R. Hodson (2021)
Fls hermaphrodite, single, broadly bell-shaped, nodding or drooping. Buds globose, yellow-green with a light reddish purple mottling which becomes heavier with maturity, becoming dark reddish purple before flower opening. Sepals 4; outside of sepals brownish yellow-orange heavily mottled dark reddish purple, inside of sepals orange-yellow with reddish purple speckling, 3 × 2 cm, elliptic, thick and fleshy, touching at base, long pointed with acute apex, tip point reflexed. Staminodes absent. Stamens numerous; filaments dark purplish red (N79B); connectives dark purplish red (N79B); anthers pale greenish yellow; pollen brownish orange. Pistils greenish yellow. Seed-heads silvery, persistent. Deciduous climber, with stems up to 3 m, stems purple when mature, sparsely hairy. Lvs ternate, often further divided with two basal lobes, margins entire, tip acute, lobes narrowly elliptic, with occasional scattered hairs when young, lvs blue-green when mature. FL: August to October (outdoors), on current year’s growth.