Kitty Clematis
Clematis ‘Kitty’ (‘Evipo097’)
Plant Details
USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 4a-9b Find Your Zone
Plant Type: Flowering Vine
Height or Length at Maturity: 3-4′
Width at Maturity: 3-4′
Spacing: 2-3′ apart for solid groupings or border
Growth Habit / Form: Bushy, Mounding
Growth Rate: Moderate to Fast
Flower Color: White with Soft-Green Bar and Dark Purplish Brown anthers
Flower Type: Single (Imbricate)
Flower Size: 4-6″
Flowering Period: Late Spring or Early Summer through Mid Fall!
Flowering Period: Late Spring or Early Summer through Mid Fall!
Fragrant Flowers: No
Foliage Color: Light to Medium Green
Fragrant Foliage: No
Sun Needs: Full to Mostly Sun, Part Shade, All Day Lightly Filtered Sun
Water Needs: Average
Soil Type: Clay (Amend heavy clay to ensure good drainage), Loam, Sandy, Silt
Soil Drainage: Moist but Well Drained
Soil pH: 6.5 – 7.0
Maintenance / Care: Low
Pruning Group: 3
Attracts: Butterflies, Hummingbirds, Beneficial Pollinators, Visual Attention
Resistances: Cold Temperatures (-30F), Deer – more info, Disease, Heat, Humidity, Insect, Rabbit
Description
Don’t have room for a larger growing Clematis? ‘Meet Kitty’, a charming little vining Clematis that reaches only 3 to 4 feet tall and wide when all grown up. Perfect for small garden spaces or in containers situated on patios, balconies and other outdoor sitting and living spaces. Extremely free flowering, from late spring or early summer all the way through mid fall Kitty features abundant, large, 6 to 8 petaled flowers with white pointed petals brushed with a soft-green stripe and surrounding a glowing green center from which emerges contrasting red-tipped anthers. Thriving in full sun to part shade, and with 6 months of flowering and a compact habit, Kitty deserves a spot in every garden where she will grow. Here in our north-central Georgia gardens we’ve found that she seems to perform and show her best colors with some filtered sun or shade during the mid afternoon hours in summer. Hardy in USDA Zones 4a-9b.
Note: All of our 1 gallon size Clematis vines are trellised 2 year old plants
Landscape & Garden Uses
With its smaller stature to 3 to 4 feet high and wide, the Kitty Clematis is ideal for growing as an accent in smaller garden spaces or containers that can be situated on patios, decks, porches, balconies and other outdoor sitting and living spaces. Also nice allowed to grow freely or on a small trellis, fence or obelisk in perennial and flowering shrub borders and garden beds A fine addition to Clematis gardens, butterfly and hummingbird gardens, white theme gardens. cut flower gardens and cottage gardens.
Suggested Spacing: 2’ feet apart for groupings; 5 feet apart for space between plants
Growing Preferences
The Kitty Clematis is easy to grow in a moist but well-drained soil of average fertility and full sun to part shade. In our north-central Georgia gardens she seems to perform her best with some shade or filtered sun during the afternoon in summer. Though it tolerates dry periods when established, it will appreciate an occasional watering in prolonged periods of dry weather. Deadheading spent flowers encourages heavier continued blooming.
Clematis Pruning Group 3
Clematis in group 3 consist of late-flowering species that bloom from mid-summer into fall. This group flowers on the last 2 to 3 feet of the current season’s growth (new wood). They are easy to prune because you do not need to maintain any old wood. In February or March, cut each stem to a height of 6 to 12 inches above the soil line. Make sure to leave two good buds on the stems below where you make your cut. New growth will emerge from these buds to produce the current seasons abundant vines and blooms.
Helpful Articles
Click on the link below to find helpful advice from our experts on how to plant and care for Clematis vines
How To Plant A Clematis
How To Prune A Clematis
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