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Clematis 'Pink Giant'

Small to medium sized, strongly scented, flowers: deep pink above, paler pink and white-downy beneath. Filaments white; anthers pale yellow. Fruit-heads persistent.

Group:	Montana group
Fragrant:	Yes
Approximate height: The heights given here are for guidance only. Much depends on the growing conditions of individual specimens.	2.0 - 2.5 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.	Apr May
Pruning:	No pruning (Group 1)
Raised by:	R Mitchell
Country of origin:	New Zealand
Date raised: r=raised s=selected f=first flowered n=named i=introduced b=before c=about	n2011
Parentage: (s) = seed parent	Chance seedling; parentage unknown (but probably involving 'Giant Star')
Further detail:	Flower diameter: 8.5cm Tepals: 4; 4.5cm long, 3cm wide, broadly elliptic, gappy, with margins in upper half (including tips) markedly and irregularly wavy, almost crenulate, tips retuse, tips and margins somewhat incurved to give sepals concave or s