Best clematis for prolonged flowering

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    I grow some clematis, esp since last autumn when I have added a few more, so the bug has bitten! :)
    Hoping ARMANDII will respond....the clematis king!......but your favourites please folks :smile:
    I would like to add a good white for late spring/early summer.....suggestions? Not the big blowsy ones.
    Also a long flowering winter into spring variety.
     
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    I have been looking for one called ''White Moth'' - used to have it years ago...small nodding flower.
     
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    The Montana's are spring flowering , and quite long flowering.
     
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    one of the best long flowering spring clematis is Broughton Bride, raised by the late Vince Denny, it flowers twice once as a single then as a double, it is part of the atragene group so no pruning
     
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      Clematis macropetala 'White Swan' fits the bill :) C.viticella 'Alba Luxurians' is a slightly later-flowering one. I find the macropetala, viticella and texensis hybrids much more reliable than the large-flowered types. For winter, in your lovely climate, C. cirrhosa balearica should do well....
       
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        No King, Verdun, just a humble servant of the Clematis and my garden.:dunno::heehee:
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        To be honest, all my Clematis are my favourites as they all, with the warming of the climate. tend to flower longer into the Autumn and even the Winter. My Spring Flowering Clematis, such as C. alpina, Pamela Jackman, Frances Rivis, Ruby, Constance will often flower again during the early Winter. The Evergreen varieties of Armandii have now, for the last two or three years flowered in Spring and then again in Autumn, carrying onto into the Winter. I admit the more showy Clematis like Sieboldii, Diamantina, Taiga, Avant Garde, Beauty of Worcester, Amber, are the one's that seem to be the ones my friends like . I also like to mix the different shapes of Clematis flowers as that tends to catch the eye
        Perhaps I do get a real bonus from the Armandii variety, apart from the repeat flowering, which is the heavy sweet scent from them in the late Winter and early Spring which will stop me in my tracks feet away from my Acer Brilliantissimum, which is completely interlaced with them, and bring a grin to my face.
        Favourites,:scratch:? I wouldn't be that unkind to my "Clemmies" to single any out as my favourite:dunno:............they all are:wub2::heehee::snorky:
         
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          I don't know the names of them but these two have been flowering for around a month now.
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            Clematis Sieboldii and Armandii
             
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              I have both of those...any views on Landsowne Gem? :)
               
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              Landsowne Gem
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              I think it all comes down to personal taste with choosing Clematis. I have several Clematis of similar colour to Landsowne Gem, so it's a pretty Clematis:love30: but I would probably add other Clematis varieties into the garden.:dunno::snorky:
               
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