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Mystery plant

Jane555Jane555 Posts: 9
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can anyone help me to identify this beautiful plant? It's well established in the border at the back of my new house, but I can't find it online or in any of my plant books, & Facebook friends are helping with comments like 'It's purple' and 'It's pretty'!image

The flowers are sweet scented. It's leaning quite a lot partly because it's raining hard, & partly because it was being choked by bindweed until a few days ago.

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  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,233

    Can you do a close up of the flower head, and one of the leaves please?

  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,536

    Looks like one of the herbaceous clematis.

    Devon.
  • Jane555Jane555 Posts: 9

    imageimage

    Any good?

  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 14,333

    Yes, Hosta is right.

    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

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  • Jane555Jane555 Posts: 9

    Fantastic - thank you!! ?

  • Bright starBright star Posts: 1,153

    It looks very much like the one I have in my garden which is called Clematis "New Love" Its a group 3 one so can be cut right down every spring.

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    Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

  • Cambridgerose12Cambridgerose12 Posts: 1,138

    It's some form of Clematis heracleifolia, but probably not the variety shown in Bright Star's photo--the flowers are smaller and paler. It'll die down completely in winter.

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