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Favourite late flowering clematis

PerkiPerki Posts: 2,368
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I'm after buying some more clematis, I've took a shine to the viticella variety's image

Anyone got any favourite  viticella / late flowering clematis or recommended ones. 

I got viticella super Nova on my order list already image I just feel I need to get another one or 2 just in case image.

Need one to grow up the pergola into the apple tree if it wishing to so 8 ft + would be more ideal. Another to grow on a 3 / 4 ft fence and along the top but not to vigorous it will swamp the surrounded plants about 5 / 6 ft maybe 

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  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 52,165

    Oh - there's so many - and you can never have too many ....image

    Etoile Violette is one of my favourites, and also Rouge Cardinal. 

    There are also some good whites if you have a shadier spot - Maria Cornelia is particularly nice.

    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 29,152

    I like the ones with smaller but more abundant flowers eg Betty Corning which is perfumed, Alba Luxurians and Caerulea Luxurians, Little Nell, Princess Diana and, for a big space, Huldine.   Etoile Violette is a good one where you want strong colour that doesn't fade in sun and one of my other favourites is Blue Angel.

    You can look up there details on here - http://www.clematis.hull.ac.uk/new-clemdetail.cfm?dbkey=561 and then try Hawthorne nurseries or Thorneycroft who do mail order if you can't find them locally.

    I had all these and many more in the garden I left behind last October.   I brought with me some  of my newer clems still in pots including Lambton Park which is a long flowering scented tangutika type and I have bought an I am Happy and a My Angel which should also flower till late on.

    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
  • Hortum-cretaeHortum-cretae Posts: 979

    Look at Polish Spirit, too. As said, there are so many.  Every one is a favourite when its flowers open

    H-C

  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 10,313

    I'm very fond of Madame Julia Correvon  - she's gorgeous scrambling up my fence

    image

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • PerkiPerki Posts: 2,368

    Thanks I'll take a look at them all, so much choice.

  • Richard HodsonRichard Hodson Posts: 790

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    Negritianka, White Magic, Morning Heaven are some of my favourites

  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,053

    viticella Black Prince. Yummity yum.

    Devon.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 83,966

    Clematis viticella urpurea plena elegans

     http://www.taylorsclematis.co.uk/clematis-purpurea_plena-elegans.html 

    Absolutely gorgeous and totally reliable image


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





  • PerkiPerki Posts: 2,368

    I was think of planting another clematis viticella on the pergola with the wisteria prolific, will it affect / smoother the wisteria in any way ? The wisteria is established, I know it will probably make pruning the wisteria slightly harder.

  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 52,165

    Depends what size the pergola is Perki. Wisteria and viticella clematis are both fairly rampant once they get going. 

    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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