Re: Help with plant ID

Nice site, but when I challenged it to find C. fremontii and C.  
crispa, two of our native "bush" clematis, it couldn't. Guess they  
are only into the showy ones!

Cathy, west central IL, z5b

On Jul 22, 2006, at 8:26 AM, Bonnie & Bill Morgan wrote:

> Kitty, I did find a link for the American Clematis Society, if that  
> will
> help you:
>
> http://clematis.org/clematis_a-z/index.html?action=view&ID=00150
>
> Blessings,
> Bonnie (SW OH - zone 5)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net]  
> On Behalf
> Of Kitty
> Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 5:46 PM
> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Help with plant ID
>
> Updating my own post here.  I went looking for one and Hirt's  
> greenhouse
> carries it via eBay, as does Joy Creek (sold out) - which lists it  
> as a
> cross between C. virginiana and C. tubulosa.
> And yes, she shows up in RHS searches of both C. tubulosa and C.  
> virginiana.
> Hmmm....
>
> Kitty
> neIN, Zone 5
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kitty" <kmrsy@comcast.net>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 5:25 PM
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Help with plant ID
>
>
>> Ceres, I googled it and found it listed both as a cultivar of  
>> Clematis
>> jouiniana and C. heracleifolia.
>> Then I checked the name w RHS and they list it as Clematis 'Mrs.  
>> Robert
>> Brydon'.  I wondered if it might be a cross of these 2 species. So I
>> checked by running Clematis jouiniana and that is actually Clematis x
>> jouiniana, apparently another hybrid of 2 species.  ANd I noted  
>> that the
>> RHS searches of both C. jouiniana and C. heracleifolia brought up  
>> Clematis
>
>> 'Mrs. Robert Brydon'.
>>
>> I wish someone would create a site for Clematis as findmy roses  
>> has for
>> roses.  They give absolutely everything, right down to the parentage.
>>
>> BTW - I really WANT this Clematis!
>>
>> Kitty
>> neIN, Zone 5
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: <Cersgarden@aol.com>
>> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
>> Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 7:12 AM
>> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Help with plant ID
>>
>>
>>> I am most certain it is 'Mrs Robt Brydon' which is a non-vining  
>>> one.   I
>>> have
>>> one growing in a approx 8-9' wooden obelisk painted cobalt  
>>> blue.   It
>>> grows
>>> up thru the support and flows out & down from the top.   'What is  
>>> it' is
>>> always
>>> a frequently asked question by visiters to my garden. This was a  
>>> clematis
>>> that was sold one yr at the greenhouse (we usually have many  
>>> varieties
>>> perhaps 30
>>> but different ones each yr)   where I work but not a common  
>>> clematis to
>>> our
>>> area.   I saw it in a fabulous garden in Rockford Il last yr.    
>>> Everyone
>>> on the
>>> tour was taken by it but did not know what it was.
>>>     Ceres
>>>
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