Clematis 'Betty Corning'

In a message dated 1/16/03 6:49:17 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
mygarden@easystreet.com writes:


I have moved her 3 times!  C. durandii and Betty Corning are outrageously
beautiful blues...my favorite color.>>>>>

Betty Corning was the wife of the mayor of Albany, New York.  She was very 
active in garden groups, connected all over the country in gardening circles. 
 He would have been Erastus Corning, III.  He gained fame by being the mayor 
of Albany, New York for over forty years leaving office only on his deathbed.

She found this Clematis walking in a rundown neighborhood in Albany.  It was 
growing on a pile of rubble and what was left of a fence. Being the mayor's 
wife she needed to get permission for some cuttings which she pursued. The 
plant was not one ID'd anywhere in the Clematis world so she got the honors 
with the name.  Guessing, I think this would have been around thirty years 
ago.

It is always a newstory here when Clematis is subject of the garden column.

Claire Peplowski
NYS z4

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