Sacha wrote:
On 3/12/06 16:55, in article

Charlie will know best but Mde. Le Coultre (aka Marie Boisselot) is a
lovely, large flowered clematis. The flowers are 5 or 6 inches across. It
can be grown in a container if well pruned. Your problem with Clematis in
the soil (and again I defer to Charlie) might be that they don't like to
have dry roots and your soil there sounds as if it could dry out quickly.
They don't like having their feet baked, either, so even in a tub I think
you'd have to put slate or something over the roots to keep them cool.
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Sacha
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South Devon
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that sounds lovely, I always put a cover over the roots, even in
England. I wonder if I excavated a very large hole in the awful soil
and filled it in with "purchased" soil/compost;whether a clematis would
stand a better chance? I'm about to look at Charlie's site to see if
he has the one you mention.