The Horticultural Society has some wonderful pocket-sized books on clematis, I thought I would share some of their info. I bought this 10 years ago, so the names are from what was available then. I'll post for each group. I hope your lovely vines benefit from the info. I learn something new each time I pick up the book and apply it to one of my pretties. Pruning Group 2 Group composed entirely of early, large-flowered hybrids, including double flowers, whose second flush later in summer produces only single blooms. Can be left unpruned, flowers are larger and foliage healthier on well-pruned plants. Require light pruning in late winter or early spring to thin and create framework of well-spaced one or two year old stems. Fat Leaf axil buds appear in early spring produce first batch of flowers. You can prolong the flowering season if you stagger the pruning by cutting back some shoots to healthy buds later than others. Less flowering on main flush, but flowering period will be longer overall. Alternatively, Group 2 clematis can be grown with minimal pruning and cut back hard every three or four years. The first flush of flowers is lost after hard pruning, but second flush has larger, more plentiful blooms. 1 Cut any weak or damaged growth back to it's point of origin or down to ground. 2 Cut back remaining stems to a pair of healthy buds, leaving an evenly spaced framework of strong growth. The pruned stems will produce flowering shoots. Clematis patens Andromeda - Arctic Queen - Asao - Barbara Dibley - Barbara Jackman - Beauty of Worcester - Bees' Jubilee - Belle Nantaise - Belle of Woking - Blue Ravine - Bracebridge Star - Burma Star - Chalcedony - Cardinal Wyszynski - Carnaby - Carnival Queen - Charissima - Corona - Countess of Lovelace - Crimson King Daniel Deronda - Dawn - Doctor Ruppel - Duchess of Edinburgh - Duchess of Sutherland Edith - Edouard Desfosse - Elsa Spath - Empress of India Etoile de Malicorne - Etoile de Paris - Fair Rosamond - Fair Queen - Fireworks - Fuji musume - Gernal Sikorski Gillian Blades - Glynderek - Guernsey Cream - Haku okan - H.F. Young Henryi - Horn of Plenty - Jackmanii Alba - Jackmanii Rubra James Mason - Joan Picton - John Paul II (Jan Pawell II) John Warren - Kathleen Dunford - Kathleen Wheeler - Keith Richardson Kiri Te Kanawa - Lady Caroline Nevill - Lady Londesborough Lady Northcliffe - Lasurstern - Liberation - Lincoln Star Lord Nevill - Louise Rowe - Marcell Moser - Marie Boisselot - Masquerade (Maskarad) - Maureen - Miss Bateman Miss Crawshay - Monte Cassino - Moonlight - Mrs. Bush - Mrs. Cholmondeley Mrs. George Jackman - Mrs. Hope - Mrs. James Mason - Mrs. N. Thompson Mrs. P. B. Truax, Mrs. Spencer Castle - Multi Blue - Myojo Nelly Moser - Niobe - Peveril Pearl - Pink Fantasy - Pohjanael Prins Hendrik - Proteus - Ramona - Richard Pennell - Rouge Cardinal Royal Velvet - Royalty - Ruby Glow - Scartho Gem - Sealand Gem Serenata - Silver Moon - Snow Queen - Sugar Candy - Sunset Sylvia Denny - The President - The Vagabond - Twilight Wada's Primrose - Warszawaska Nike - W.E. Gladstone - Will Goodwin William Kennett - Victoria - Vino - Violet Elizabeth - Vyvyan Pennell

I saw it before Christmas at a pre-release showing. I just loved it and have come to appreciate that the Disneyfied Mary Poppins and the literary Mary Poppins are quite different. IN fact, I had never read the book and I am reading it now. Travers was quite the character, wasn't she? I really enjoyed the movie and it made me curious about PL Travers, Mary Poppins and Walt Disney. Things are not as you might imagine!

I found something about him ! If you click on this link and scroll to the bottom of the newspaper sections you will find a portion of a column written by CVR Thompson, NY Correspondent for the London Daily News...1941. In reading his book I LOST MY ENGLISH ACCENT, I found his real time experiences with FDR and Hitler to be so interesting since he had no idea what was to come and was simply writing about what he saw and heard. Here is a link that might be useful: CVR THOMPSON article

I have it but I bought it as a plant. I've done a quick Google and I don't see any sources for seed over here either. I'm wondering if it would come true even if it did set seed? My plants have not produced any seeds that I've noticed but then the dying flowers are a mess. They tend to get sodden rather than dry so I often dead head them. The plants are easy to obtain and cheap here. It's a pity you can't find them. The smell is lovely.