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Clematis 'Sir Edward Elgar'

Medium sized, semi-double, broadly bell-shaped flowers, inside greyish red fading with age, outside purple midribs and shading to white near the base. Fruit heads persistent.

Named after the noted English composer (1857-1934), who lived in Malvern - where the Richards' nursery is based - between 1881 and 1904.

Group:	Atragene group
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.	Apr May
Pruning:	No pruning (Group 1)
Raised by:	John Richards
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Date raised: r=raised s=selected f=first flowered n=named i=introduced b=before c=about	ni2015
Parentage: (s) = seed parent	Unknown
Other name(s):	'Elgar'
Further detail:	Flower diameter: 9cm Tepals: 4; 6cm long, 2.5cm wide, elliptic, ribby beneath, touching at base, with very slightly wavy margins, long-pointed. Staminodes in two whorls: outer of 12-15 sepaloids, narrowly elliptic to lanceolate, with acuminate tips