This eye45catching evergreen clematis gives a much needed injection of colour to the winter garden when few other plants dare to bloom this is the earliest of the spring flowering clematis with cup45shaped pink blooms freckled with maroon45red markings to give this plant it39s name the delicate blooms are followed by attractive fluffy seedheads that stand proud of the glossy evergreen leaves clematis 39freckles39 requires only minimal pruning and makes an excellent specim