and a few more clematis to whet your appetite:
(click on an image to scroll through the gallery and for more information)
Purpurea Plena Elegans
Maria
Countess of Lovelace
Jadwiga Teresa
Madame Baron Veillard
Happy Anniversary
Earth laughs in flowers 
Gorgeous! Nearly there! Sitting in Phoenix Airport ready to board!
You will have arrived to a wet Saturday, but a lot greener than where you have come from! Take it easy 🙂
Torrential rain on Sunday. What fun!
I love the title of this blog. Earth is certainly laughing in clematis in the current post. My acquaintance with clematis has been only white. Here you show me a delicious richness of colour – and a bee.
There are SO many varieties of clematis, I had no idea! My current phase for colour is blue/purple/magenta and deep pink. I have one purple clematis but it isn’t doing well this year. Got eaten by vine weevil in spring and all the new buds were chomped 😦