carol ann, I was just looking up Warsaw Nike after taking pics of it this morning. I have been raising clems for about 6 years and have about 30 or so. I have a notebook containing the original tags from the plants and printed info sheets with pics from the most comprehensive website I have ever found. It's called Clematis on the Web. There is also a lot of info on American Clematis Society. The reason I was looking up info on WN is because my blooms are also a dark purple. Go to Google Images and key in Warsaw Nike clematis. You will be amazed!! Deborah

That's exactly what I did (google images for the two varieties) and the reason I was a bit perplexed. Nothing like the internet to really confuse things :)) I love the color it is now (a red-violet, with emphasis on the violet) and don't care for the redder versions I'm seeing in photos.

And wow, thanks for the great website! It looks like a terrific resource. Too many clematis, too little space... our yard may become a sea of teepees :)

Ah ha! Deborah, I was digging around in the website you gave me and found this from an article on W. Nike:

"Ironically, it may be necessary to scale back the red mentally when viewing our picture, since photographs tend to register clematis purples as redder than they appear to the eye."

So it's not going to be as red as it might appear in some photos. Just what I needed to know!