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clematis-tepal/petals
I'm a newbie as well, and my knowledge on this subject is based only on
observations of my own Jackmanii. The first year I planted my vine, I only had 4 petal flowers. Now in the vine's 3'rd year, it has produced both 4 petal, and 5 petal flowers ( and it has grown tremendously since it's first year as one scraggly looking vine, each year it comes back MUCH fuller than before. When I first adopted my clematis I thought maybe I would need to buy more than one plant for it to fill out the way I had hoped...ha ha). So, my very unscientific guess would be that age/maturity has a factor in the size of the flower/number of petals. Heidi 7b DigitalVinyl wrote: I bought a Polish Spirit. The only difference I noted between a Jackmanii and the Polish Spirit is that the Jackmanii photos always seemed to have four petals and PS had five. I've read that J. can have 4-6. I also understand the PS is clasified as a J. The clematis I have has over 15 flowers but all have four petals. Is the number of petals 4 vs 5 vs 6 controlled by variety or environmental/fertilizer. I actually prefer the fuller look of a five or six petalled one. Sooo... is there a variety that tends to have more petals. Is if just a random thing? More petals when the plant is well established? DiGiTAL ViNYL (no email) Zone 6b/7, Westchester Co, NY, 1 mile off L.I.Sound 1st Year Gardener |
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