"Brian" --- 'flayb' to respond wrote in message
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"Sacha" wrote in message
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On 10/5/05 7:49, in article
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"Charlie Pridham" wrote:


"Brian" --- 'flayb' to respond wrote in message
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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

I think you've cracked it! That rings a loud bell. We have planted one
in
a shaded corner of the house and it has been there two years. It's just
starting to get going.
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
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Thanks again but I fear not Schizophragma as so many of the
individual
florets were sterile~~each of the heads was similar to a 'mophead'. It
was
many years ago that I saw it~~I'm sure my memory hasn't failed me. It was
an
important day for me otherwise.
A splendid pink Schizophragma climbs Barns House.
Best Wishes Brian.


I would be foolish to think I have seen every climbing hydrangea and reative
there is, but I am sure none have flowers as you discribe. so is it possible
someone has gone to the trouble of wall training an ordinary mop head?

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