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Clematis 'Alan Blyth'

Small flowers with broad bar white at base, feathered towards the tips with purple-violet veins, and with broad, purple-violet upper margins and tips; outside the sepals have a purple bar shading to very pale purple margins. Filaments and connectives green; anthers white. Fruit heads persistent. Named by Dr Hamilton Blyth after her late husband.

Group:	Viticella group
Approximate height: The heights given here are for guidance only. Much depends on the growing conditions of individual specimens.	7.0 or more metres
Flowering period(s): Warning: the months here are approximate for the northern hemisphere: users south of the equator should add approximately 6 months so that July becomes January etc.	Jul Aug
Pruning:	Hard prune (Group 3)
Raised by:	S Hamilton Blyth & A Blyth
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Date raised: r=raised s=selected f=first flowered n=named i=introduced b=before c=about	r2007 n2011
Parentage: (s) = seed parent	Unknown
Further detail:	Flower diameter: 6.5-7.5cm Tepals: 4; touching at base, otherwise gappy, wavy margins finely and irregularly nicked, tips blunt and recurved slightly (if at all)