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Clematis 'Lovely Elga'

Medium-sized, semi-double, broadly bell-shaped, nodding flowers. Outside purple, tinged purple-red along the base of the mid-veins and with narrow, pale pink margins. Inside pale purple-pink. Staminodes pale pink. Filaments and pollen pale yellow. Named after the raiser's sister-in-law.

Group:	Atragene group
Approximate height: The heights given here are for guidance only. Much depends on the growing conditions of individual specimens.	2.0 - 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.	May Jun
Pruning:	No pruning (Group 1)
Raised by:	A Irbe
Country of origin:	Latvia
Date raised: r=raised s=selected f=first flowered n=named i=introduced b=before c=about	r2008 n2018
Parentage: (s) = seed parent	macropetala x unknown
Other name(s):	'Elga'
Further detail:	Flower diameter: 8-10cm Tepals: 4; 5.5cm long, elliptic, with slightly wavy margins, tip acuminate Staminodes sepaloid: 10+; narrowly elliptic