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By the way, does anyone know the name of the last plant in my set of pictures? I got it at the Malvern Show last spring and I can't find its label. It's really bugging me.

Hi Jenny,
I am not 100% sure but I think the last plant you showed is a Gentian of sorts so perhaps this may jog your memory.
Do you note the difference in colour to the Clematis that you showed and the one Alan showed. Yours is the right shape but the wrong colour for 'Francis Rivis'. Certainly yours is an Alpina and no doubt very beautiful but not FR. I think that Alpinas look better before the petals open fully as both yours and Alans show. The flowers hang like little Blue laterns and look so beautiful.
JB.

I can only reiterate that it was sold to me under that name.
The plant in my garden isn't a gentian. It's in one of my Christopher Lloyd books so I'll have to go and find it.
You and I will have to take a walk around some plants at the next show we're at and discuss their actual, as opposed to their advertised, blueness.

I saw some Bleubells today, and i must say they did look a bit mauve.

Aha!

Well, more than 50% of mine have turned white.
Ho Ho

Alan

Mine are turning white and pinky. I'm wondering if it's the influence of the Spanish incomers. I think I might have a mix. Some of my leaves are big, broad and juicy looking, others are thin and flatter. Then there's an in between.

Is maybe one native, one Spanish and one a hybrid?

Mine are definitely all wild and Welsh. I expect next year they'll be a mixture of Red Green and White to match the flag.

Alan

Mine are nearly all out now and there are definitely considerably more pink ones, but only a few white ones. No imports as they've been there for years - clearly much longer than we have.
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Granny