Clematis: Ready, set, order!, 1 by pirl

pirl wrote:
It's 29 degrees now in NYC. We're a bit cooler out here at the eastern tip of Long Island.

Not much ever bothers the clematises. A very long, prolonged cold spring, will set them back but they bounce back. In 2011 Omoshiro bloomed for the first time on July 8th due to the cold spring but in 2012 the first bloom was May 4th (pictured below). That's a huge difference.

Love the bud! It's the promise of things yet to come.