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Princess Meghan

Richard HodsonRichard Hodson Posts: 790
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Just raised in USA, this new clematis is due to be named Princess Meghan, what do you think of a) the plant, b)  the girl ?
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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 29,145
    It looks just like my Jan Fopma.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 13,716
    Like the plant.
    No strong views on the girl, although the mixed marriage may well have positive consequences.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 83,892
    edited August 2018
    Well, trust the dear old USA to get the title wrong ... but there we go, it probably sounds more romantic to them than Duchess of Sussex and will help sell it.  It does look pretty ... I would say that it has a dusky elegance if I wasn't afraid that I'd be accused of racial stereotyping ... 

    As for the girl (girl, 37 years old ... think I was a woman by then ;))   I know nothing of her other than what I read in the papers and I take no notice of that ... as long as she and her husband are happy then that's good enough for me.  :) 

    Must say, speaking of royal clematis ... I'm very pleased indeed with my recently planted C. tex. Queen Mother ... growing like crazy, covered with blooms and absolutely charming  :)

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





  • MarlorenaMarlorena Posts: 7,882
    ..I've seen better...
    East Anglia, England
  • PurplerainPurplerain Posts: 1,053
    I am not keen on the plant as I find the colour dull.  When does it flower Richard?

    I think Meghan is a beautiful girl under a lot of pressure, but hopefully all will be well for the couple in the future.
    SW Scotland
  • LauraRoslinLauraRoslin Posts: 496
    And she's not a Princess, she's a Duchess.   
    I wish I was a glow worm
    A glow worm's never glum
    Cos how can you be grumpy
    When the sun shines out your bum!
  • Mary370Mary370 Posts: 2,003
    Duchess to me, brings to mind an older lady........I'm not sure why
    Nice clematis
    I think Meghan is very pretty and hope she has a somewhat easy time adjusting to living in (to her) a foreign country and definitely a different culture, being a royal.

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 83,892
    Mary370 said:
    Duchess to me, brings to mind an older lady........I'm not sure why


    Maybe we grew up on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland  @Mary370 lol

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





  • Mary370Mary370 Posts: 2,003
    edited August 2018
    @Dovefromabove the one story I never liked  :p
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 83,892
    edited August 2018
    Someone I knew moved here from Russia ... she said she'd loved Alice in Wonderland as a child and thought that England would be just like it .... she was really disappointed when it wasn't .... and then the longer she was here and the more she understood she became aware that the way things are in England is very like how they are in Alice in Wonderland   :/


    Sorry @Richard Hodson  we've rather gone off at a tangent here oops

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





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