Clematis 'Vyvyan Pennell'

OOOoooooo Spritz yours is a head of My Vyvyan Pennell ! Mines still in a Tight Bud :/

You know what you've got to look forward to, Jacque! Enormous double flowers!

looks like taffata

I think that this is my favourite Clematis...apart from Niobe, Etoile violette, Royal Velours, Broughton Star....etc etc etc.

lol,, all of them spritz

'fraid so, Sanbaz....;-)

it is hard to choose i must say,,all lovely

Absolutely beautiful Spritz :)

She certainly has the largest flowers of all my clematis, that's for sure!

OOOOHHHHHH very nice!

Beeeeeeeeeautiful very grand.

this is a beautiful one :o)

I bought one of those off eBay last week, it needs to stay in a pot until next year, I have quite a collection of clematis in pots now and need to read up more about each variety. I read somewhere about Clematis pruning "If it flowers before June, never prune" how true that is Im not sure.

I suppose it's a rule of thumb. norfolk. Are you happy about pruning groups?? I can give you a quick lesson if you'd like one! lol.

Beautiful, the name does ring a bell with me, but no this is'nt the one i have...i'll come back to you on the name in a mo....

...mmmm yes please i do find pruning groups all very confussing with clematis, i have never had so many before as the last garden i had was all privet hedge boundries so not much scope for them, but now with all the trellis and fence space i have quite a few, and completely lost about pruning, because the general rules of pruning - after flowering, or spring if flowers before the end of June, Aultumn if flowers after, kind of go a bit out of the window with all this group 1, 2 - flowers twice a year, new wood old wood etc...Maybe if you have time you could do a blog Spritz...i am sure i am not the only one that finds this confussing.

p.s the purple one i have is called 'Beauty of Worcester'

A wonderful double.

OOOoohhhhhh Wow.....:>)

yes please Spritz, give us a blog on pruning Clems :-) I dont touch my armandii, I only keep it in check if it stretches outside of its boundary, its a rampant specimen and sure it tries to strangle me when I get up close :-))

I'd really appreciate info on pruning Clematis too. I've got an old one growing over my front door (montana) that's like a bird's nest of dead sticks underneath but loads of healthy growth on top. It needs dealing with but I'm terrified! Your Vyvyan Pennel is a beauty

OK... I'll do one after Thursday in the 'gap' before the 2nd open day.