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Article: The Clematis Connection
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- April 30, 1989
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In case you hadn't noticed, a lot of things in this world are
sadly mixed up, and this unfortunate situation may apply to garden
plants. These deep half-sinister reflections are brought on by
examining my glorious plant of a pink clematis, now in full bloom
(starting April 20), which is supposed to be C. vedrariensis.
Once I exerted myself to view a whole batch of early-flowering
pink clematis and while they were much of a muchness I concluded I
liked vedrariensis best. It is a hybrid of C. chrysocoma and C.
montana rubens. This hybrid is a bit more decided pink (less pale
mauve in it) than some of the others, and the petals (sepals,
actually, but they look like petals) are a little ...