Violetta, I love your random post showing your sproutings. I wouldn't worry too much about the reddish colored leaves on one of your Palettes. The first leaves a clematis throws up in the spring may be adversely affected by alternating periods of cool and warm weather. Let the plant mature before attempting to decide whether it is a mislabeled clematis or not. Like you, the warm weather here is prematurely causing some of my clematis to begin pushing up new growth. I have several that are already 4 to 6 inches up and we are still about a month away from our last average frost day (April 15th). I have gone back and forth about whether to pinch the tops out since doing so is just going to encourage more growth. I finally bit the bullet yesterday and did pinch back a couple of the taller ones since if I wait, I know I will be hesitant to do it later if we don't get any more frosts this year. I guess it is a wait and see game from here on out! Once again thanks for showing pictures of your spring growth.

When a thread reaches a certain time or place on the number of pages of threads GW can keep, then new posts don't bump the thread to the top. I remember your kitchen! I have it saved as one of my favorites! Do you have more pics?!! Please! Start a new thread.

Babs, I guess it just took a while for it to show up. I went back after a while and it was there. Thanks!

What seems to work best is to put your post in as you normally do and then put your pictures in the next post. That seems to work for a lot of us who are not able to successfully put pictures into the opening post.