Hi halds the plant they are picturing must be Vitalba also known as old mans beard or travelers joy. small scented white flowers super old school clematis that grows to about 40 feet goes to show you what can happen with mis marked plants people are misled even on the web thanks for chatting with me.P.s this plant is a great clematis to cover a wall.when Mary Toomey came and talked with us at Chalk Hill she said the kids in Europe smoked it. kind of nasty don't you think

Thanks for the replies, but we are still on the track for ID of this plant. Greenthumbzdud said it looked like a Begonia 'Bonfire', but if you look at the leaves, the leaves on my plant have jagged edgies to the leaves, and the red part of the plant is quite meaty. Someone else mentioned a cactus. No, definately not a cactus. Any other ideas would be welcome and thanks for taking the time to reply.

Thanks very much for your reply, Dighappy! I thought it was Gay Paree, too, but the center section on ours is pale pink and sits down inside the darker outer petals. Gay Paree appears to have a ball shaped white inner section that sits higher above the pink outer petals. (The ball of white petals reminds me of an ice cream cone!)

Seems overly large for a vole, but then the scale is hard to judge. And I'd be very surprised to see voles wandering about in broad daylight. They also tend to be more nocturnal in their activities and are seldom seen above ground in daylight - too vulnerable to predators. But to be honest, it does look more like a vole than a rat - just appears to be larger than voles in my area (I only see dead ones, delivered for my admiration by my cat :-)) btw, I have never seen a skinny vole - with a diet so plentiful and diverse as theirs, it's not hard to stay plump!!