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Clematis 'Jean Cumpston'

Small, nodding or drooping, bell-shaped creamy-white flowers. Filaments pale cream tinged green, but suffused red-purple towards top and along connectives; anthers red-purple. Flowers normally borne in groups of 2-4. Named by Richard Green after his mother, Jean Green (née Cumpston).

Group:	Cirrhosa group
Approximate height: The heights given here are for guidance only. Much depends on the growing conditions of individual specimens.	2.5 - 3.0 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.	Dec Jan Feb Mar
Pruning:	No pruning (Group 1)
Raised by:	Ian Lang
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Date raised: r=raised s=selected f=first flowered n=named i=introduced b=before c=about	rn2009
Parentage: (s) = seed parent	napaulensis (s) x cirrhosis (probably cirrhosa var purpurascens 'Freckles')
Further detail:	Flower diameter: 5cm Tepals: 4; 2-3cm long, 1-1.5cm wide, broadly elliptic, touching at base, margins slightly wavy, tips sub-acute and slightly recurved