Ville de Lyon Clematis Plants

Clematis 'Ville de Lyon'

This sumptuous pink-red clematis has distinctive rounded flowers with slightly overlapping sepals, creating a wonderful contrast with most other clematis varieties. The blooms aren't the biggest, starting off around 10-15cm wide and shrinking as the season goes on, but they're profuse and look superb jumbled up with the fresh green foliage.
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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.