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  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    @Marlorena, so it is, how strange! Mine's about 6-7 ft tall, growing on the rose arch with Ispahan in the front garden. I must confess when I saw it was out yesterday, I didn't think it looked quite the same as previous years. I'll see if I've got any photos from previous years. Thinking about it, it might have been one of three cheap unnamed clematis from one of the shows many years ago and C. florida seiboldi was the nearest I could I.D. it to.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    The florida types are quite distinctive - more like passion flowers, and we've had people in the past being sold those as passion flowers too because of the similarity.
    Yours looks like Miss B to me too. 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    Thanks @Fairygirl, at least Miss Bateman is easier to spell!
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    @Marlorena, my new Daniel Deronda can apparently reach 6 metres but presumably that's only if it's left unpruned? 

    I was thinking of putting it on the 2 metre obelisk I've got with my new Strawberry Hill rose but I only planted another rather feeble clematis there last week!

    I really must not buy a plant before I know where to plant it!  Repeat, I really must not.....
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • MarlorenaMarlorena Posts: 8,705
    @Lizzie27
    I think you've been misinformed Lizzie... my plant never got above 6 feet.. an obelisk at that height is perfect.. any extra growth, well it can drape down can't it..   6 mtrs sounds ridiculous to me for a clematis of this type.. 
    East Anglia, England
  • MarranMarran Posts: 195
    Lizzie27 said:
    @Marlorena, my new Daniel Deronda can apparently reach 6 metres but presumably that's only if it's left unpruned? 

    I was thinking of putting it on the 2 metre obelisk I've got with my new Strawberry Hill rose but I only planted another rather feeble clematis there last week!

    I really must not buy a plant before I know where to plant it!  Repeat, I really must not.....

    Approx 9 ft height for Daniel Deronda @Lizzie27
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    The "clematis on the web" site says 2.5 to 3 metres so you should be safe training it round that obelisk @Lizzie27https://clematisontheweb.org/new-clemdetail.cfm?dbkey=138 

    I only have Lambton Park in flower at the mo but all the others are summer flowerers anyway and just budding up apart from a fairly young clematis cirrhosa.   The good news is that when I pruned LP in March I too 6 cutting sand 3 have taken.

    I also sowed seeds from Maxima when I pruned her but none has germinated yet.  Patience needed. 
    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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