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Title: Clematis ID please
Post by: jomowi on June 05, 2015, 04:34:37 PM
Could anyone ID this Clematis, please?  I inherited it when I moved to my present garden.  While I would not have bought it I don't intend to get rid of it either. Both pics are of the same plant, the second taken at a later date.
Title: Re: Clematis ID please
Post by: Maggi Young on June 05, 2015, 04:44:54 PM
Maureen,  it has a look of a cultivar called 'Blue Light'  - but I'm no expert on Clematis and Double forms can look similar.
Title: Re: Clematis ID please
Post by: alanelliott on June 05, 2015, 04:49:46 PM
Could anyone ID this Clematis, please?  I inherited it when I moved to my present garden.  While I would not have bought it I don't intend to get rid of it either. Both pics are of the same plant, the second taken at a later date.

It is probably something that has Clematis x jackmanii in the parentage. Clematis 'countess of lovelace' or somthing similar.

This is a useful site for Clematis species and cultivars.
http://www.clematis.hull.ac.uk/index.cfm (http://www.clematis.hull.ac.uk/index.cfm)
Title: Re: Clematis ID please
Post by: Maggi Young on June 05, 2015, 04:54:49 PM
http://www.clematis.hull.ac.uk/new-clemdetail.cfm?dbkey=695 (http://www.clematis.hull.ac.uk/new-clemdetail.cfm?dbkey=695)    'Blue Light'

http://www.clematis.hull.ac.uk/new-clemdetail.cfm?dbkey=133 (http://www.clematis.hull.ac.uk/new-clemdetail.cfm?dbkey=133)    'Countess of Lovelace'
Title: Re: Clematis ID please
Post by: jomowi on June 05, 2015, 07:08:46 PM
Thank you Maggi and Alan - looking at the pics of the links you sent, it doesn't quite match either, but as Alan suggests, I guess it shares at least one common parent in C. x jackmanii. 
Title: Re: Clematis ID please
Post by: Carolyn on June 05, 2015, 07:55:16 PM
Could it be C. Multi blue?
Title: Re: Clematis ID please
Post by: Maggi Young on June 05, 2015, 08:30:46 PM
Could be , Carolyn - 'Multi Blue' has the pointed petals that we see in Maureen's pic. Got a certain charm, doesn't it?

http://www.clematis.hull.ac.uk/new-clemdetail.cfm?dbkey=23 (http://www.clematis.hull.ac.uk/new-clemdetail.cfm?dbkey=23)
Title: Re: Clematis ID please
Post by: jomowi on June 05, 2015, 09:18:18 PM
Carolyn - Multi Blue looks more like it.  I've just been outside to compare mine with the description on Maggi's link, and it seems to fit. Thank you.
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