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Clematis 'Lily the Pink'

Small, bell-shaped, nodding flowers, inside pale pink, upper half with dark pink speckling coalescing into suffusion of colour towards tip, lower half with narrow white margins; outside deep pink with broad, creamy-white margins. Filaments hairy and, like anthers, creamy white. Styles greenish white. Presumably named after the 1968 song by 'The Scaffold'.


Approximate height:  2.5 - 3.0 metres
Flowering period(s):  Jun Jul Aug Sep
Pruning: Hard prune (Group 3)
Raised by: Richard Hodson
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Date raised:  r2009 n2013
Parentage:  'Odoriba' (s) X 'Alba Luxurians'
Further detail: Flower diameter: 3-4cm
Tepals: 4; 3-4cm long x 2.5 cm wide, elliptic, thick and fleshy, touching at base, slightly wavy margins, tip acute and becoming recurved