Ville de Lyon Clematis Plants
'Ville de Lyon' Clematis with vibrant carmine-red flowers from midsummer to autumn.
Features
- Height: To under 3.5 metres
- Colour: Carmine red-pink
- Shape: single, open
- Flowering: July - September 
- Group: Late large-flowered. 
- Pruning group: 3
- Type: Late Large-flowered
Growing Ville de Lyon Clematis
Partial shade is ideal because you should get richer coloured flowers. 
Pruning Group 3: Cut the stems back to the lowest pair of buds in February or March.
History & Trivia
Bred by Francisque Morel in 1899 from C. texensis and an old, no longer available viticella, ‘Viviand Morel’.
The International Clematis Society chose Ville de Lyon for its Clematis of the Month for January 2004.