By Sheilar
Sunderland Tyne and Wear,
United Kingdom 
I've got a clematis 'Ville de Lyons' which was accidentally chopped earlier in the year. It has came back with a vengeance in four different places and is growing away profusely. However, today I noticed it has got a few flower buds forming on it. Is this normal as it has already flowered earlier in the year. Have I confused it by pruning it at the wrong time - maybe it thinks it's a different season!!!
9 Sep, 2011
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Bamboo, I've got a picture of it in full bloom on 24th May, this year. Do they flower twice?
9 Sep, 2011
This one doesn't no, but I'm wondering if you've got something like Niobe or Rouge Cardinal instead, which would flower then and again now.
9 Sep, 2011
I think because April was such a warm month, many plants thought it was May/June which would explain why your Ville de Lyon flowered early.
I have some clematis with buds which I purchased recently, that really should not be flowering. The climatic conditions are all bottoms up.
Another GoYer gave me a fab web site:
www.clematis.hull.co.uk
it has an A-Z and photographs for almost all clematis.
10 Sep, 2011
The packaging certainly did state it was Ville de Lyon. Of course, it could have been wrongly labelled. I'll have a look at that site, thanks, and see what it says.
10 Sep, 2011
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Ville de Lyon's a late flowering one, starting around end of June, July, in the viticella/jackmanii group, so I'd expect it to be in flower now.
9 Sep, 2011