clematis recta

hello chaps

Does anyone have one of these?
http://www.cottage-gardens.net/showdetails.asp?id=144

I'm on the hunt for one, for my new, as yet unplanted bed. I reckon I can sneak it in without the Asst Est Mgr noticing!

 

wise old owl, it does look fab, doesn't it!
I have to make a comment about your sig. I think there are many women in the UK who would argue that it should say:
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day, teach him to fish and you get your Sundays all to yourself!

 

So presumably you could pass it off as a gift from the birds once it gets going? :rolleyes: Nice one, Lynne!

Like the change in your signature too!

 

I actually really love cats, except they make me snizz :(
I loathe and utterly detest the cavalier attitude of cat owners who refuse to clean up their pets' detritus. My neighbours, despite video evidence, refuse to accept that their critter poos in my garden. I have neither cat nor dog, yet I am expected to accept cat carp (ahem) under my fingernails. Which is nice.
Grrrrrr....

 

We grow it. Makes a well over 6 feet tall by as much across mound with small white flowers in late summer. There is a purple stemmed version of it. C.recta pupurea which we also grow. Another smaller but similar Clematis is Cl. stans which I have recently bought, but am not sure it is has survived, yet.
All of them can be grown from seed, but it does need to be fresh sown seed, so you need to buy a plant to get the seed to grow a plant, sigh! Or ask someone who has it for seed at the right time of the year.

 

Palustris - thanks for this!
I couldn't have the Stans one as it has blue flowers and I have a purely white garden. OK, so I'm fussy!
I think I'm after the purple one. I like the idea of an interesting stem. I have a fab Drymis Winteri with cinnamon coloured stem and lime green leaves. Very striking!

 

poo, that should be Drimys not Drymis. Erk!

 

C. stans does not have blue flowers to my knowledge, they are white with a blue tinge. I reckon you need very good colour discrimonation to see that though.
Do not buy C r. purpurea unseen, there are some poor colour versions grown from seed.
A Nursery called Aulden Farm nursery near Leominster have a really good named one.