The new cultivar is the result of chance discovery in Hoganas Sweden. The inventor is Barry Fretwell. The new variety was discovered as the result of a breeding program conducted in South Exeter, Great Britain. The seed parent is an unpatented, proprietary Clematis lanuginosa seedling referred to as ‘P57’, the pollen parent is the unpatented variety Clematis lanuginosa ‘Mrs. N Thompson’. The cross was made Jun. 12, 2000, and the selection of the new variety was made in June 2002.