You are right. I should have checked COTW. I am positive about when it blooms though :) I'm one of those very strange people that keeps track of the garden with pics. When I click on the link to the the Pink Fantasy page and the thumbnails show.... when I pass the cursor over a thumb, the filename appears in the lower bar of the window. All my photos have the date they were taken in them. For example: pfan060907ca1.jpg is the filename of Pink Fantasy taken June 9, 2007. I take pics when the first bloom opens on each plant. Dr Huey's 1st blooms opened 6/1/07 and Pink Fantasy started 5/24/07. By 6/9/07, both were covered with blooms. PF has started blooming a week before the doctor here for the 4 years we have had PF. Pink Fantasy does bloom on new growth and does qualify as Group III in our yard. Growth is early and very vigorous. You can see the new growth all the way to the ground in some of the pics. PF is a good clematis but not one of my favorites. I like the clear pink color of Hagley Hybrid blooms better than the muddy pink of PF. Deb likes PF more. I added a few more pics to the Pink Fantasy page. All 4 of our Henryi are monsters by the way. 2 will be moved soon because they are shading the roses around them. OK, I admit it. I am the only person strange enough to keep track of the garden with pics the way I do :) I feel much better now, LOL. It was nice thinking another/others might be that wierd for a few minutes. Deb laughed so hard when she read the preview that I had to add this admission *sigh*

Acctually they produce year round with a big show of blooms in the spring, feb through may here. What you could do is keep them in the drier side in the greenhouse during the winter and a bit on the cooler side, then during spring, start to increase temps and water but not keep them soggy. The dryness usually induces blooms. You should fertilize with a balanced citrus fertilizer 4 times per year

Karyn, I have heard from many, in many locations that things are very slow this year. Yes there are some beginning to get blooms but I think our strange winter weather and rather cool spring set things back a bit. What say the experts?

No such thing as a fake bloom! Well, not unless you stick some plastic flowers in the ground. Used to be a house in town that did that. That is really a pretty daylily, not sure I have seen that before. Love your Clematis. I never see any red clematis around here offered. I have been wanting red, or a white double flowering one, but local nurseries just carry shades of purple.