Ping ~~Linda~~

Need to pick your brains..
Three of the blooms on this clematis are per this pic, but the rest are
single (as they should be) Are these three blooms sports and will it be
possible to propagate them???

The species is Piilu

~~Linda~~...

Sorry, I've only just found this Wrinklie, I've been a tad busy in the
great outdoors lately ;-)
As to your clematis... this is (hehe sounds like a Microsoft comment) a
*known feature*. In Spring, on the mature wood, it produces a flush of
double flowers and later, in summer it gives another lot of single flowers
on the *new* growth. Obviously this means you should only lightly prune,
otherwise you'd be cutting out that ripe growth that will give you the
flowers. Does that help?
Oh and to answer about propagation... you could take the normal softwood
cuttings (mid stem, shoot tips will be too soft) but it would still grow in
the same way as the parent plant, for the reasons explained above re
maturity of growth.

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Thanks for explanation Linda.. Only thing puzzling, there are both
doubles and singles on now. The doubles came first and are just going
over.

~~Linda~~...

Not a puzzle really, just that you have a mixture of new and mature growth.
It happens more if we have a late, 'Indian' summer and then a dry, warm
Spring. Just enjoy... and take plenty of photo's to remind in the long,
cold winter :-p

Have taken note re pruning, thanks