Very pretty Andrew.
All of mine have made the winter here as well. My Allanah had a few buds on. But I was cleaning out my flower bed (A work still in progress) and busted the top off.
Oh well, it'll make it bush out better.
Shelley

Wow, that's a beaut, looks like the flowers are huge?

Sharon

Sharon

The flowers on Dr. Ruppel get to be about 15-20cm in size... also the lighter part of the petal fades in the sun so it is a nice contast of pink to almost white (the picture I put up is a new flower that just opened).

And as a big bonus it only needs to be lightly pruned (basically cut off the dead ends). Only gets to be about 2.5 meters in my experience but some websites say 3 to 3.5 meters. It is a prolific bloomer.

- Andrew

Wow that is a nice one Andrew!! It's good to see you back.

-Gillian

Glad to be back finally Gillian

Bill MacKenzie starting to show life again.

- Andrew

I will remember what it is when its flowers open.

- Andrew

It looks a lot like clematis alpina 'Willy'. The 2 in my yard are just starting to open up.

Laurie

I remebered today its a Jan Lindmark that I layered and divided last year.

The big give away was it looked exactly the same as the other Jan Lindmark lol

- Andrew