Clematis tangutica

This week's plant was not an easy choice, quite a few plants are showing off this week.
In the end I chose the nodding yellow flowers of Clematis tangutica, that will go on flowering well into autumn.


It's easily grown from seed, it's free of desease and it will cover an modest size arch in a season.
The arch I grow this over has a Laburnum vossii on one side and a Rosa 'Maigold' on the other. It is the rose, which is early flowering, and doesn't repeat, that shares the space with the clematis.


As the rose is winding down the clematis, which was pruned in February to about 30cm from the ground, is starting to take over. When the laburnum is starting to get tatty, which happens quite early, the clematis reaches the top of the arch and hides it in a mass of flowers.


As a bonus, the fluffy seed heads last to the end of winter, even in cold snowy ones like we had lately.