Clematis: What's my name, 1 by ClematisGuru

ClematisGuru wrote:
just realized i should explain the stairs you see in the festoon bonanza pic..i call them the botanical stairs. my husband designed the retaining wall and stairs to have an area at the back of the stairs where i have little ground cover plants and so forth...above the festoon as you come down the stairs are some early blooming clematis like guernsey cream, alabast and some nelly m which have finished blooming and been deadheaded, cut back or left as is for the season. festoon is the latest bloomer along that retaining wall. the top one is the earliest bloomer, the second is the next bloomer, alabast, etc down to the festoon.
next year i will take a better photo of the sequence. here is the top of the stairs and the early bloomers......