Whilst I was at Chelsea...


My Clematis obelisks finally burst into flower in my back garden to welcome me home. Here we have C. 'Souvenir de Capitaine Thuilleaux' and a rather nice sport of C. 'Josephine' (the one with the rather frilly centre), which I don't think is available elsewhere.


And my mystery Clematis finally has a name. Sadly not C. 'VP' as we've joked about previously, but C. 'Diamantina' as launched by the lovely Mr. Evison at Chelsea this year. It's a sport of C. 'Crystal Fountain' which was spotted in his Guernsey nursery in 2002 and has been developed and trialled since then. It looks like I must have obtained an escapee when I bought it from my local garden centre in 2007.

It's a fantastic plant: it'll be in flower prolifically from now until the first frosts and people say wow what's that Clematis? when they come into the garden. I'll be able to tell them from now on.

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  1. Glad that the mystery clematis has a name at long last and it certainly suits her.

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  2. The only time I had the chance to chat with the lovely Mr. Evison, he was installing a huge clematis display for Canada Blooms... and the question I asked him was not about clematis (wasn't till I'd asked that I realized who he was). After that gaffe, I was too embarrassed to talk to him further. Silly me.

    You have two very lovely clematiseses, whatever their names be.

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  3. how lovely & dramatic for an early summer garden. clematis blooms paving the way for the later entrance of dahlias :)

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  4. Anna - in a way I'm sad - I'm going to have to learn to share!

    Helen - I've spoken to him several times - the mystery Clematis question was the first time. He's a true gentleman.

    Hermes - thank you :)

    Petoskystone - now that's quite a coincidence - I was planting Dahlias at the time you left your comment!

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