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General Subjects => General Forum => Topic started by: SueG on February 22, 2007, 02:31:50 PM
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I've got some spare seedlings of this rather nice winter flowering, summer dormant clematis which are looking for good homes. Grows happily for me outside and flowers well, it began flowering in January and is still going strong. Flowers a bit like C balearica, but more bell like and they have a bunch of purple stamens which stick out of the bottom of the bell, followed by the usual fluffy seedheads. It looses it's ferny leaves in June/July time but they are back in the early autumn.
Happy to post them to anyone who has a few square inches of space!
Sue
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I would like to try it, Sue. Do you think it would be okay outside up here? Won't get too much in the way of summer dry but I could try it under the eaves of the house for a bit of protection. Would that work, do you think?
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Sue, if you think Maggie & Ian can grow it Carol & I would like to give it a try, also. Traditionally we have a drier summer than Maggie although that seems to be changing!
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Obviously you're not going to be sending plants to NZ Sue, but I wonder would you give me some advice please. I've had this species about 8 years on the shady side of a windbreak fence and it grows well but has never flowered. Does it perhaps need more sun? And I have to say that it is just about evergreen, losing a few leaves in winter but quite green in summer. I'd think maybe I had the wrong plant but the seed was from Chris Chadwell who should know. Very pretty ferny, almost lacy foliage.
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Hi Lesley
Mine is in a huge terracotta pot outside my back door along with several other things. It faces somewhat west of southwest so gets quite a lot of sun but it shaded by the walls of my back yard and house for the later part of the day. I've had it for about 4 years and it looses its leaves in mid summer and looks dead but greens up again after about 6 weeks. Frost doesn't seem to hurt it, prolonged frost makes the foliage droop a bit but it perks up once it's gone.
I wonder whether it needs some sun to promote flower buds. I know it did take a year or so to produce any flowers at all and it is gradually getting more each year. Otherwise I've got no answers for you I'm afraid. Maybe someone else has some ides?
Sue
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Sounds like a nice plant? I take it is not susceptible to clematis wilt?
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Hi Anthony
Sounds like a nice plant? I take it is not susceptible to clematis wilt?
I've not seen that - so couldn't swear to it (swear at it - yes)
Sue
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Thanks Sue, I'll try cutting it back and pushing the stems through to the sunny side of the sunny side, leaving the root in the shade. That might help, but if not, I'll give it a good kick.
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Anthony, generally in my own experience, Clematis species don't get wilt, it seems to be the large-flowered hybrids which suffer most but a very successful remedy, is any of the fungus products based on Trichoderma species (fungi themselves) and sold here as Trichopel et al. You'll have other brand names I expect. They really work and applied at the time of planting, eliminate Clematis wilt and many other fungus conditions totally.
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Thanks Lesley, that's the kind of succinct useful info that makes this web site so brilliant. I love it.
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Lesley, I have had this for years and it is only in the last couple of years that it has started to flower. It has feet in shade, but grows into an oak and sundry other trees, and appears to thrive on neglect here. It only started flowering really, once I forgot about it and left it to its own devices. I then discovered it flowering quite by accident. It is certainly evergreen here.
Susan (about 5 km away as the crow flies?)
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Maybe a little more Susan, let's say about 9. From here, it's 18kms to the railway station via the southern motorway and 22 by way of 3 mile hill, so probably about 17 to your place. I'll measure it some day.
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about 5 km away as the crow flies?)
I thought you Dunedin types measured things by how the Albatross flies? ;) ;D
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Only when at see Maggi.
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Oh dear, I'm all at sea here. Sea, sea, sea.
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I can sea that Lesley, you don't seam to bee yourself today!
Got to have sympathy for anyone trying to learn this ridiculous language of ours, don't you?
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I do indeed have sympathy for those people. It amazes me how fluent all our "other" Forumists are in English. We here are encouraged to learn Maori nowadays but while it's a beautiful language, there's no use for it at all except within New Zealand. I learned French at school to a half way fluent degree and Latin which has been a great help with plants but I wish I'd learned German, Dutch, Spanish and a few others as well. We also need Chinese languages, Korean and Thai here if we're to be able to get along well with all the new New Zealanders.
Thomas says he does well on the Forum because he has a word translation handy but I assure you that on the phone he's just as good.
Today and most of the week I'm arranging things for the 4th birthday party of Otago Farmers' Market. Balloons for kids, prizes for this and that, jazz band etc etc along with sign writing for a new, mobile site office so am feeling stressed. I HATE these parties which my Trust insists on and even worse, the frilly hat I'm going to have to wear on the day (3rd March). No, there will NOT be a photograph of me in it. That's why I seam to bee at see. Haven't even had time this weekend to pick blackberries but David, I've not forgotten.
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Many thanks Sue, seedlings arrived by this mornings post none the worse for wear, now happily ensconced in pot in cold frame as interim measure. Looking forward to a stunning display next year?
Brian :-*
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Lesley, I have just taken a virtual poll. In answer to the question "Should we see Lesley in a frilly hat" the result was:-
Yes: 3267 No: 2. You know what you have to do!
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Well bowing to David's scientifically conducted poll, we shall have to see that somthing happens on Saturday. Better not forget my camera then. ;D
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Brian, glad the seedlings made it safely. The rest will be off to plant sales/members tables etc over the next few months!
Sue
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David, I'm sure that the margin of error, officially calculated at 99.8% would render your poll unsafe. However, I'm putting up a picture of me taken yesterday by my Site Co-ordinator. I can tell you, it's a very good likeness.
Cheat! Cheat! Nice balloons,though ! M
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And now I'd like to apologise for this particular bit of silliness on what is a perfectly serious topic about Clematis napaulensis. :D
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So, back to the Clematis napaulensis... two lovely seedlings, one for us, one for Brian Wilson, most kindly delivered personally by Sue to the BD yesterday at the North Northumberland Group meeting. Ian was pleased to see so many Chums there. He was looked after very well by Gill Lee, of course, who drove him to and from the station and so on. Thanks, Gill, and hello from me to all the Chums I missed seeing!
Thanks, Sue, we'll get it planted out when?? the storm finishes!
I suppose I ought to tell Brian his one is here!
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Hi all,
I should like purchasing a Clematis napaulensis but I don't know if it would be hardy In Zone 7 - 8 :-[ Can somebody help me ?
Best regards