clemdetail -

Clematis 'Kosmicheskaia Melodiia'

Deep cherry-purple flowers with a satin sheen. Contrasting cream filaments with purple anthers. Raised in 1965 at the State Nikitsky Botanic Garden, Crimea by A N Volosenko-Valenis and M A Beskaravainaja. The name means 'Cosmic Melody' and commemorates the first flight of the Russian cosmonauts. A hybrid of 'Gipsy Queen' x 'Jackmanii Alba'.

Group:	Late large-flowered group
Approximate height: The heights given here are for guidance only. Much depends on the growing conditions of individual specimens.	3.0 - 4.0 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.	Jul Aug Sep
Aspect:	Any aspect
Pruning:	Hard prune (Group 3)
Raised by:	A N Volosenko-Valenis & M A Beskaravainaja
Country of origin:	USSR/Ukraine
Date raised: r=raised s=selected f=first flowered n=named i=introduced b=before c=about	r1962 n1970
Parentage: (s) = seed parent	'Gipsy Queen' x 'Jackmanii Alba'
Other name(s):	'Kosmiczeskaja Melodija'; 'Kosmitcheskaya Melodija'; COSMIC MELODY
Further detail:	Flower diameter: 10-14cm Tepals: (4-) 5-6, 5.3cm long, 3.3cm wide, rhombic, gappy, wavy margin