On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 10:57:09 +0100, "Charlie Pridham"
wrote:

~
~"Pam Moore" wrote in message
.. .
~ A month or so ago I asked about a blue, small- flowered clematis in
~ flower in July / August which I saw in a garden. I had to have one.
~ Charlie said it must be a viticella and after various searches I knew
~ he was right.
~ I've since looked in every Garden Centre I've visited and at last
~ found one with its last couple of flowers which looked similar. It is
~ labelled clematis viticella Polish Spirit.
~ Searches in my 3 books and on the net have brought up varying pictures
~ from small flowered to larger, from blue to purple, 4 petals and 5.
~ Does anyone grow Polish spirit and can tell me if theirs is small and
~ blue and 4-petalled?
~ Charlie, do you reckon it is rightly labelled?
~ I just hope this one survives the winter!
~
~ Pam in Bristol
~Polish Spirit has medium deep puple flowers which fade and get smaller as
~the season progresses, it is a very vigorous plant and frequently stays
~completely evergreen here, it grows like a privit hedge and is very hardy
~www.roselandhouse.co.uk/cpolishspirit.htm (picture) its flowers are however
~more open and not nodding than c. viticella, indeed it is at best borderline
~viticella!

Hey Charlie, nice to see you in this week's Amateur Gardening :-)


--
jane

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone,
you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
Mark Twain

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