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Clematis 'Kerttu'

Medium-sized flat, dark blue-purple flowers, outside pale purple with a greenish-purple stripe. Filaments yellowish white; connectives dark violet; anthers violet. Seed-heads persistent.

Group:	Late large-flowered group
Approximate height: The heights given here are for guidance only. Much depends on the growing conditions of individual specimens.	2.0 - 2.5 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.	Aug Sep Oct
Pruning:	Hard prune (Group 3)
Raised by:	J Räsänen
Country of origin:	Finland
Date raised: r=raised s=selected f=first flowered n=named i=introduced b=before c=about	r 2011 n2013
Parentage: (s) = seed parent	'Reetta Lotta' (s) x 'Maria Cornelia'
Further detail:	Flower diameter: 9-11 cm Tepals: 5-6; 4.5-5 cm long x 3.5-4 cm wide, broadly elliptic to slightly obovate, slightly overlapping with margins often bent backwards, rounded to acute at tip, tips slightly recurved