8/16/2023 0 Comments Clematis sweet autumnI'm hoping I'm in the creep phase this season and it impresses me next year, but as of now, they are just sort of "meh". That's why I paid all that extra money for the biggest plants available, hoping to skip one of those steps. I know, I know, first they sleep, then they creep, then they leap. These don't seem to want to twine around the fence either, like the one from last year did. Each of them have about 3 shoots that have reached the top of this short little fence, but that's about it. Once that growing tip is gone, that particular shoot just seems to stop. They are growing, but rather slowly, and the branches seem to snap off easily in the slightest breeze. This year, I bought two in the largest containers available, from Proven Winners and planted them into the ground against a wrought iron fence. Unfortunately, it didn't survive our winter. It grew really well, planted in a container with a trellis, covering the trellis. I bought a teeny tiny, quart-sized one last year from Home Depot. 'Sweet Summer Love' clematis is featured in our "Aroma Therapist" magazine ad. It won a DGA Green Thumb award for the best new plant of 2014 and we expect it to earn many more awards and accolades as people get to know it. This plant has what it takes to be the best-selling clematis of all time. The next year it takes off, however, it is much more restrained than sweet autumn clematis and does not litter the garden with unwanted seedlings. The first year you plant it, it does not do much besides grow roots. It will add lots of drama to gardens when trained up a trellis or other support. 'Sweet Summer Love' gives you everything you want: the flowers, the fragrance, the ease of growth and cranberry-violet blooms that start over a month earlier than others - starting in July in the midwest and northeast, and lasting until mid-September. It's as close to perfection as a plant can be. Anyone can be successful growing this variety. Most Clematis can be tricky to grow, with brittle stems that break if you so much as look at them, but this plant is super sturdy and grows like a dream. The fragrance of sweet autumn clematis is as good as any plant in existence, and the same goes this beauty. Specific epithet means flowers in 3's.When the world-renown clematis breeder Szczepan Marczynski of Poland told us he had what amounts to a sweet autumn clematis with red flowers that change to purple and that blooms months earlier, we were all in. Genus name comes from the Greek word klematis which is an old name applied to climbing plants. paniculata is a separate species native to New Zealand. Sweet autumn clematis can aggressively self-seed in the landscape, and has escaped cultivation and naturalized in many parts of the U.S., particularly in the East and Midwest. Compound, leathery-textured, shiny green leaves (3-5 oval to elliptic leaflets with cordate bases). Flowers give way to attractive, plume-like seed heads. Features aromatic, 1" diameter, cruciform, pure white flowers (each with 4 narrow petal-like sepals) in terminal panicles from late August to October in a profuse bloom which typically covers the foliage. Without support, it will sprawl along the ground as a dense, tangled ground cover (to 6-12" tall and 10' wide) which typically chokes out most weeds. If given support, it will climb rapidly with the aid of tendrilous leaf petioles to 20-25' in length. Late blooming clematis with dainty white flowers adorning it late Summer to early Autumn. It is a vigorous, deciduous, twining vine with an extremely rampant growth habit. Clematis terniflora, commonly called sweet autumn clematis is a fragrant fall-bloomer.
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