"Brian" --- 'flayb' to respond wrote in message
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"Sacha" wrote in message
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On 8/5/05 23:03, in article ,
"Brian" --- 'flayb' to respond wrote:

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However there is a large NT house on the Devon/Cornwall border [can't
remember its name] with a specimen/variety that is exceptionally
splendid~
with heads similar to H. macrophylla. I have never seen this
elsewhere
or
heard/read of it at all. Have never understood why!

I wonder if you're thinking of Lanhydrock House? The climber up one of
the
fronts of that is Pileostegia viburnoides. It's on the left as you're
looking at the house front.
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Sacha
(remove the weeds for email)
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Many thanks Sacha~~ I know Lanhydrock well and it was not there. It
was
Cotehele~~ has just come to me!!
The flowers were almost entirely sterile, compact and large. Put me off
my poor effort for life!!
Best Wishes Brian


Probably a Schizophragma
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Charlie, gardening in Cornwall.
http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of National Plant Collection of Clematis viticella (cvs)