I know it's dead but, with such an intoxicating perfume, it must have a name??
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.
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.
It is clematis x triternata 'Rubramarginata' a hybrid of a flammula & vitivella. Oh well I was half way there. :o :o 8)
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.
Depends on the colour of the tips of the petals, ,x aromatica (flammulaxhendersonii) is blue (ish) and rubromarginata is mauve(ish).
As I said, it's over, but does this help?
The flowers are about 1" across.
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.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v172/Berghill/July/rubromarginata.jpg)
As promised here is C. t. rubromarginata.
Thank you all for that!
I have aromatica growing and I have to agree it smells wonderful
(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y217/cappucino_cup/DSCF0364.jpg)
Is one supposed to prune either - or just 'restrain'?
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.
ta muchly!
Oh wow it looks lovely and perfume too?...Must have one of those.