@thevictorianzFH0qqPW @B3 @Borderline thank you for your responses. I gave it a quick google. It does look like traveller’s joy / old man’s beard. Apparently it’s good for wildlife so I’ll leave some of it for the time being…
Just to show what C. vitalba can do. When we first moved here there was a small patch of this on the roadside near Ruabon. Now, 25 years later, it is on both sides of the road, covering every tree for a good 2 miles.
The alpina Clematis are particularly good because they're early, and therefore very beneficial for insects at that time of year. The macropetalas like similar conditions, and are really beautiful.
It's a real stinker, that plant, isn't it @Palustris ?
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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thank you for your responses. I gave it a quick google. It does look like traveller’s joy / old man’s beard. Apparently it’s good for wildlife so I’ll leave some of it for the time being…
https://www.taylorsclematis.co.uk/Clematis-alpina/
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
The macropetalas like similar conditions, and are really beautiful.
It's a real stinker, that plant, isn't it @Palustris ?
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...