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Clematis 'Bolam Belle'

Small, nodding or drooping, bell-shaped, dark violet flowers. Outside, silver-grey hue over violet ground. Fruit heads persistent.

Bought by Heather Russell at a Hardy Plant Society meeting as a seedling from (white) campaniflora; the only other clematis in the raiser's garden was 'Praecox'. 'Bolam Belle' seeds freely but does not seem to come true.

Group:	Viticella 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
Pruning:	Hard prune (Group 3)
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Date raised: r=raised s=selected f=first flowered n=named i=introduced b=before c=about	r2002 ni2012
Parentage: (s) = seed parent	viticella subsp campaniflora x unknown
Further detail:	Tepals: 4; 3-4cm long, 1-1.5cm wide, narrowly elliptic, touching at base, otherwise gappy, margins slightly wavy, tips flattened horizontally or very slightly recurved