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View of Monte Cassino from the nearby Polish military cemetery - Photo © Szczepan Marczynski

Clematis 'Monte Cassino'

Large, vivid red flowers with cream-yellow anthers on creamy filaments. Introduced into the UK by Jim Fisk.

Szczepan Marczynski, on his website, writes that the cultivar name "commemorates the battle for the strongly fortified hill of that name to the south of Rome, Italy. It was a key point of the Gustav line fortification. Three attempts of the allies' forces failed. Eventually the Polish 2nd Corps succeeded in capturing it after one week of very hard struggle in May 1944, and thus opened the way to Rome to the allies' forces. There is a Polish military cemetery on Monte Cassino."

Group:	Early large-flowered group
Approximate height: The heights given here are for guidance only. Much depends on the growing conditions of individual specimens.	2.5 - 3.0 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:	Sun or semi-shade
Pruning:	Hard prune (Group 3)
Raised by:	Stefan Franczak
Country of origin:	Poland
Date raised: r=raised s=selected f=first flowered n=named i=introduced b=before c=about	r1975 f1978 i1986
Parentage: (s) = seed parent	Unknown
Further detail:	Flower diameter: 10-16 (-20)cm Tepals: 6; 6cm long, 4cm wide, broadly elliptic, overlapping, rounded, margin wavy