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Clematis 'Brian Temple'

Small, broadly bell-shaped, flowers outside light purple; inside with light purple margins and tips about paler, whitish bar (which develops more strongly with age). Filaments light purple; connectives reddish purple; anthers yellow. Fruit-heads persistent.

Named after a close friend and work colleague of the raiser, who died in July 2012 "well before his time".

Group:	Heracleifolia group
Approximate height: The heights given here are for guidance only. Much depends on the growing conditions of individual specimens.	1.0 or less 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:	T Bennett
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Date raised: r=raised s=selected f=first flowered n=named i=introduced b=before c=about	r2010 n2012
Parentage: (s) = seed parent	heracleifolia (s) x unknown (possibly self-pollinated)
Further detail:	Tepals: 3cm long, 0.5cm wide, strap-shaped, thick and fleshy, touching at base, with minutely wavy or irregular margins, tips acute and recurving (sometimes strongly so)