Topic: ERIC - please?

[tim]

I know it's dead but, with such an intoxicating perfume, it must have a name??

[ndkc2003]

Hi Tim I think its one of the vitticella probablt not the correct spelling as the flammula I think are white. I know the fragrance is wonderful I ahd one at the last house so hunted one down when I moved I'll go out to the garden now and see if the tag is still on. Talk to you later.
Donna.

[Palustris]

If as you say it was very aromatic then, as far as I can see (for once a bigger picture), it could well be Clematis x aromatica. Apart from some of the montanas that is the most scented of all of them. Sadly mine too is in the past.

[ndkc2003]

It is clematis x triternata 'Rubramarginata' a hybrid of a flammula & vitivella. Oh well I was half way there. :o :o 8)

[ndkc2003]

I must apologise for my horrendous typing but it isn't always me I do have a helper - my 8 month old weimaraner Cyd, she likes to shove her nose on the keyboard.

[Palustris]

Depends on the colour of the tips of the petals, ,x aromatica (flammulaxhendersonii) is blue (ish) and rubromarginata is mauve(ish).

[tim]

As I said, it's over, but does this help?

The flowers are about 1" across.

[Palustris]

rubromarginata for sure, x aromatica is much more blue. In which case I have just found it in the garden, picture will appear here in due course.

[Palustris]

As promised here is C. t. rubromarginata.

[tim]

Thank you all for that!

[Jane the Novice]

I have aromatica growing and I have to agree it smells wonderful

[tim]

Is one supposed to prune either - or just 'restrain'?

[Palustris]

x aromatica is a herbaceous type and usually dies back to the base in Winter.
x t rubroetc is treated as if it was a viticella type and prune to a metre or less from the ground in Feb/March.

[tim]

ta muchly!

[Val]

Oh wow it looks lovely and perfume too?...Must have one of those.