Thistle Do you Have Sweet Summer Clematis?

[Nyboy]

I know you love clematis,and can't grow sweet autumn, sweet summer is very close but with red flowers. label says zone 4 to 11

 

[thistlebloom]

What?? I haven't seen that one! I'll have to look, it sounds great!
Does it have the heavy growth that Sweet Autumn does?

 

[thistlebloom]

I just looked it up, and I'm definitely going to add that one to my collection! It's hardy! It's fragrant! It blooms for a couple of months!

 

[baymule]

Clematis grows wild here, we call it Maypop. But the pictures of all the different varieties I see here on TEG are beautiful. The first one my grandpa ever showed me was breath taking. It didn't even look real, it was so pretty. I found this pic on the net, looks close to the wild ones we have here. Are they a wild flower where you live?

 

[thistlebloom]

Isn't that a passion vine?

 

[baymule]

Isn't that a passion vine?

Yes, but it is also called clematis, at least around here. I have heard it called Maypop, clematis, and passion flower. Probably just a backwoods boo-boo.

 

[baymule]

Looking around on the net, it goes by passion flower more than anything else. But I also see it called all of the above....... looks like there is confusion. My favorite term for it is Maypop.

 

[thistlebloom]

Yeah, another example of our confusing common names.
It's easy to understand what we mean regionally, but outside that, sometimes our names are for completely different plants.
( like beargrass ) Passion vine is in the passiflora family,
clematis is in the ranunculus family.

 

[Nyboy]

Thistle if you can't find it near you let me know and I will send you one.

 

[Nyboy]

Wow bay you have passion vine growing wild!! Here it is a very costly potted plant. I do have a wild clematis growing in the woods at country house, but it is nothing like the ones for garden. Small blue flower,mostly leaves.