Large pale mauve-pink flowers with a deeper pink stripe and beige or light brown anthers. The spring flowers may occasionally be semi-double. The cultivar was named to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the nursery that bred it. This plant has been awarded the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.

Group:	Early large-flowered group
Approximate height:	2.0 - 4.0 metres
Flowering period(s):	May Jun Sep
Aspect:	Sun or semi-shade
USDA zones:	4 5 6 7 8 9
Pruning:	Light prune (Group 2)
Raised by:	Bees Ltd Nurseries
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Date raised:	i1958
Parentage:	Unknown
Other name(s):	Sold in Japan for some time as VICTORY™
Further detail:  Flower diameter: 15-20cm Tepals: 6-8, 7.5-9cm long, 4-4.3cm wide, broadly elliptic, overlapping, blunt Leaves: simple or ternate Click here for the text of an IClS article about this clematis Database entry: 81