Clematis: Clematis are just awesome this week!, 1 by pirl

pirl wrote:
Proteus is a good guess. I have no idea what was available in stores 30 years ago because I only started in with clematis in '92.

Mine was mislabeled to start with and in shade to compound the color problem so mine is nowhere near the glory that yours is. I moved it a year or two ago so if it blooms I'll post a photo for you to compare.

This collage shows a photo of it from its shady days - bottom right.

You're doing a splendid job of raising it!