Climber identity ?

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  1. PeterS

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    I would be very pleased if anyone can identify the above climber. It is growing very happily on the north side of a neighbour's garage, and is just starting to flower. It seems to be growing from 30 or 40 stems in the ground, along the whole length of the garage. I very much doubt the the original planter, who was not a gardener, would have planted more than one.

    My first reaction was a Clematis Montana, but it is different from my Montana Mayleen which is about to flower. The leaves are a bright yellow green with rounded ends, compared to Mayleen which has less leaves, darker green and pointed. The flowers have 3 thick waxy petals, and are bare inside except for 7 deep purple stamen/carpel. By contrast my Mayleen has 4 petals and a fibrous inside.
     
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    Another one - please can somebody identify?
    We bought this two years ago as a spindly stick -with a label attached that said 'Honeysuckle'. This is the first time it has flowered - it's about 3 ft high now but it really doesn't look like any sort of honeysuckle to me. :confused:
     
  3. Hornbeam

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    jjordie's shrub is a real beauty whatever its name! I could be very wrong, but it looks like a magnolia to me. Magnolia liliiflora Nigra - the lily flowered magnolia??? Are the leaves deciduous?
     
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    I thought jjordies shrub looks like Lonicera tatarica, it is the shrub variety of honeysuckle, very pretty and unusual.
     
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    The shrub is definitely Lonicera tartarica.
    The climber looks like one I have which I know as Chocolate Vine. however mine has very red/purple flowers about now. Holboelia coreacea (not poss on the spelling).
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    This is ours!

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  6. Hornbeam

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    Peter's climber has got me beat. Three petalled flowers are not common. The leaves suggest pittosporum or even magnolia.
    Dunno, but I shall not sleep until someone comes up with the answer!
     
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    [​IMG] Thankyou all! Answers in less than an hour - that is what I call service. I shall now go and report to o/h!
     
  8. Liz

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    Palustris, I know the plant in your picture as Akebia [commonly found variety is quinata]. Is this the same plant?
     
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    Thanks Liz, that's the one. We have the other as well growing next to the Akebia and mxed in with it and I always get them mixed up. Ta!!!!!!!!!!!
    When the Hobelia flowers I will post a picture.
     
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    Spot on Palustris and Liz. It is clearly an Akebia (Chocolate Vine), which is totally new to me. Many thanks.

    Palustris - the colour of yours is beautiful. I was going to try and take a cutting from my neighbour's plant, but having seen yours I am not going to be happy with a pale one now. Its a good excuse to go to the garden centre.
     
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    Do they really smell of chocolate? [​IMG]
    I love that honeysuckle, havent seen it before, does that smell?
     
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    I can distinguish no scent at all, but it is supposed to do so. Mine produces lots of self layering runners which are dead easy to dig up and move elsewhere, bit hard to send through the post though,sorry.
    Peter I would love one of your colour to mix in with mine!
    Will go and check on the Lonicera and get back to you!
     
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    Palustis. I was about to ask how there were so many stems - but you have answered it. I will see if I can dig up some shoots.
     
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    No Liz, doesn't see to have much smell at all.
     
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