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Clematis 'Blue Planet'

Medium sized violet-blue flowers with pale yellow-brown filaments and brown anthers.

Group:	Early large-flowered group
Approximate height: The heights given here are for guidance only. Much depends on the growing conditions of individual specimens.	1.5 - 2.0 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.	Jun Jul Aug Sep
Raised by:	Lothar Sachs
Country of origin:	Germany
Date raised: r=raised s=selected f=first flowered n=named i=introduced b=before c=about	r1998 f2002 n2003 i2004
Parentage: (s) = seed parent	'Bee's Jubilee' x 'Lord Nevill'
Further detail:	Flower diameter: 10-14cm Tepals: (6-) 8; 5cm long, 2.7cm wide, broadly elliptic, overlapping, blunt, apiclulate, margin sometimes wavy Leaves: simple to ternate