Clematis 'Alionushka' - Hugely abundant and very prolific in flower. A really super scrambling clematis. Bred in the Crimea in 1961 by A.H. Volosenko-Valensis and M. A. Beskaravajnaja this clematis is a very hardy plant indeed, meaning that it is popular across the whole of Europe and very much at home in an English garden. 'Alionushka' is classified as part of the Diversifolia family of clematis, these have been crossed between a climbing clematis and integrifolia, meaning that the leaf petiol (leaf stem) does not cling or wrap around things like they do on most other clematis. Therefore 'Alionushka' and other Diversifolia scramble around unless they are given a support and are trained onto it, for example an obelisk. ‘Alionushka’ and other Diversifolia scramble around unless they are given a support and are trained onto it, for example an obelisk. Another attribute that you will notice is the almost herbaceous nature of ‘Alionushka’, where the new shoots com
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