Clematis Atragene Group 'Pointy'
    
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common name: |
Clematis 'Pointy' |
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flowers colour: |
creamy with dots |
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plants height: |
2-2,5 m |
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flowers size: |
small |
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flowering months: |
IV-V |
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aspect: |
any |
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pruning way: |
1 (none) |
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frost hardiness: |
zones 3-9 |
An intriguing Swedish cultivar with slightly nodding, bell-shaped flowers. 4 elongated, pointed, creamy tepals are 5-6 cm long and covered with numerous brown-violet dots. The margins of the tepals are bent upwards and show an interior tuft of 1.5-2 cm long, pale yellow staminodes. The flowers appear in April-May and then turn into fluffy seed heads that stay decorative from June till autumn. It attaches itself to supports by means of leaf petioles. Very frost hardy and undemanding. It tolerates semi shade.
Useful for growing up fences, over rocks, tree stumps, and deciduous or coniferous trees. It looks particularly good against a dark background or when combined with blue-flowered
Raised by M. Johnson, Sweden 1990.
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