Confession

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I have a beautiful purple clematis that I rescued after the earthquakes - when they created the "red zone" in Avonside they initially demolished all the houses, and left the fencing in, so in parts there were still established gardens doing their thing. But the bulldozers were slowly working their way thru, digging out everything except for established trees it seemed. So I saved two clematis - the white one didn't survive - a lovely big double hybrid, and that was my own fault for not putting it where the roots would be cool. This intense purple one is rambling over a large lavender bush, and it's spectacular.