Clematis: My first Clematis blossom!, 1 by PudgyMudpies

PudgyMudpies wrote:
I have another first. This is "Pink Champagne", I got it in July, it was in a gallon pot & had been there since I started looking in March. It was in such poor shape, I suspect it was from the previous year & was a hold over. But there was only 1 spindly vine alive and hanging off the wooden pole, and all the rest of the vines were brown and dead. It was $9.99 and I said to my husband, NO WAY! But every time I went there, I was drawn back cuz of the tag pic. I kept asking the nursery gal if they were ever gonna mark it down & she snottily told me no. LOL
Finally in July it was worse then before. I got up my nerve & approached miss snotty & said "Listen! This thing is gonna die & you are not gonna get ANYTHING for it! Mark it down & I will buy it!" She said maybe the manager would give me 10% off. I laughed and said "I would not give you more then $6 for it!" so she called the manager, he said ok, and she informed me that I could have it for $6 but the plant guarantee would not apply! HARHARHAR I took my poor neglected baby home & today I was rewarded with this. I almost missed it, it was tucked in behind some thunbergia grandiflora leaves. But my eye caught the color peeking out. Isn't she a beauty???
Donna