Hang on Steve! just realised you said yellow & black flowers & purple leaves!!!!! :confused: This is Carnival Do you have a pic of yours?
Damn! whats the odds of me just making a name up at random and inventing a type of clem for april the first and it turning out to be a proper name LOL well at least the anagram of april fool I used in the hardy buzy lizzie with black flowers post can't be a real name :D
Steve is taking the Michael :0) I find it hard to choose my own favourite, late spring belongs to Pink Flamingo, divine small pink (of course) flowers. Summer is Elsa Spath, and late summer/autumn is Etiole Violette. Oh, and from June to autumn for sheer flower power it has to be Petite Faucon, a small non clinger. I grow it through a skimmia. I have left out so many, Duchess of Edinburgh is fabulous, so are Belle of Woking and Beauty of Worcester, the very floriferous Huldine ....................there are more, so many more..............
I love my Clems, was tying in new growth this afternoon. I forgot to tell you about Arabella, she is a bit naughty and scrambles all over the Weigelia :0)
I have a couple of victorias and a tangutica that according to books has insignificant yellow flowers but beautiful seed heads...myself I think the flowers are good too
some of the tangutica's have much thicker flower petals than others. I love the yellow lanterns. The seed heads make interesting decorations. You can pick them and put them in a vase or whatever, a friend sprayed some with silver and gold sray paint, they looked amazing.
yes true choc and have another show in Autumn too... love them crawling all over the conifers, other Clematis and Hops.
