Clematis Burma Star

Clematis Burma Star- Our blooms showing their crinkles.  You have got to love it when the label shows you up by announcing 'its excellent for patio containers'  when you ignored this and stuffed it straight in the garden.

Yep another Clematis.  And the newest addition to the garden as it was this years Mothers Day present.  I had a real dilemma in the garden centre when buying this as I am always torn between the more exciting coloured ones with ruffles and doubles, and the deep purple traditional ones the mother likes.  Seeing as it wasn’t daughters day her taste had to win so I really went for it and got the darkest purple one I could find in the form of Burma Star.  A very very dark purple, one might almost go as far as to describe it as Indigo in colour with single flowers rather than doubles (shame).  It is quite interesting because pictures I have found online of Burma Star do not quite look like mine.  They are really open flat flowers with quite a clear red stripe down each sepal, which is a feature of the variety.  Im not saying that ours doesn’t have a red stripe, but its very faint, definitely no more pronounced than the green ones on Miss Bateman and yet nobody bothers to mention those.  The lovely feature I would have said about this one was the fact that the flowers are really crinkly, like any clematis flower is when it has freshly opened before it straightens itself out and gets itself sorted.  But like your face first thing in the morning our flowers permanently look just woken up which I rather like so I don’t know how we are achieving this.  I don’t know whether the fact that being situated in ‘Clematis corner’ behind an apple tree and a Camellia it doesn’t get a vast amount of sun?  Who knows.