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

In article , Pam Moore
writes
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.

You need to contact Rachel Sullivan.

rachelb at thbarker dot demon dot co co uk

--
Jane Ransom in Lancaster.
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but if you need to email me for any other reason, put ransoms
at jandg dot demon dot co dot uk where you see

"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!

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

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

Please remove onmaps from replies, thanks!

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

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!

Thanks Charlie. Your catalogue is excellent. I'm off to buy Amateur
Gardening!
The flowers on the one I bought labelled Polish Spirit are more like
your c. viticella picture than the picture of Polish Spirit.
Flowers have fallen now so I have to wait till next year!

Thanks all for replies


Pam in Bristol

I've been doing a Google search for Clematis poish spirit and clematis
viticella Polish Spirit.
It is amazing the variety of bloom shapes and colours which are show.
I guess this must apply to others but which is the definitive?

The one I have bought is between these 2.
http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk/cviticella.htm
and
http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk/cpolishspirit.htm
(Charlie Pridham's catalogue) His pictures are excellent.

Pam in Bristol

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

~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

Just had to nip out and get a copy! they had said next week :~) Anyway thank
you, as articles go it was not too embarrassing!

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

"Pam Moore" wrote in message
...
I've been doing a Google search for Clematis poish spirit and clematis
viticella Polish Spirit.
It is amazing the variety of bloom shapes and colours which are show.
I guess this must apply to others but which is the definitive?

The one I have bought is between these 2.
http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk/cviticella.htm
and
http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk/cpolishspirit.htm
(Charlie Pridham's catalogue) His pictures are excellent.

Pam in Bristol

To be fair its quite difficult to get the colour right (especially as it
changes as the flower ages and according to the soil type a bit as well)

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