Can anyone identify this clematis?

10 years ago

last modified: 10 years ago

I bought it about 2/3 years ago at a box store. Actually, it was in a box that was labelled 'Belle of Woking." I had my doubts. The plant had a single teeny stem and no buds. With a plant that size I would normally pot it up and wait a few years to transplant. But I put it in the ground next to a Nelly Moser and forgot about it. Last year I inadvertently, but perhaps luckily, cut it back when I was weeding.

And so here it is today next to Nelly. The small, bell-shaped blossoms are 2 & 1/2 inches wide when opened with a red-maroon stripe down the back of each petal. The true color is a deep purple red as in the bottom blossoms, but the sunshine altered the photos.

Close up showing slightly rippled edges.

Next to Nelly, this one is golden in the center. It's buds open from a perfect bell shape.

The underside of the blossoms are not this pink-looking outside.

I know there are hundreds and hundreds of clematis but would appreciate anyone's guess or actual identification. Thanks so much.

Molie

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mnwsgal
10 years ago
Sorry, Molie, that you haven't gotten any replies. I do not know what variety you have. It is lovely. Clematis on the Web has a search function that might help you.

Good luck.

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val (MA z6)
10 years ago
It is lovely, but It's not Belle De Woking, which I have. I have a gorgeous Lavendar Celmatis I bought at Walmart last year only because it was full and had 4-5 blooms and even more buds on it...It tripled in size, and put on a huge show this year...and in the past 2 months, the vines have climbed the 8' trellis I thought it would take a couple years! I posted a picture of it when I got it, hoping for a name, but there are so many lavendar ones; However I"m happy to sit back and enjoy the gorgeous blooms...yours are LOVELY, too!!
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NHBabs z4b-5a NH
10 years ago
Assuming that it has the same bloom time as Nelly, it can be pruned the same way.

It isn't one that looks at all familiar to me. If you really want to know the name, you can use Clematis on the Web search function, but look at the petal shape, gappiness or overlap, tip shape, texture, and edge as well as the size and shape of the boss of stamens and the overall flower size. IME, color on some of the CotW flower photos can be fairly far off of what is seen IRL due to light effects, camera, and the film or digital media used for the original image, to say nothing of the effect of a particular monitor. Leaf shape and size compared to the bloom can sometimes be of help as well.