Sweet Summer Love Clematis – 1 Gallon Pot

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Fragrant Flowers:  No

Foliage Color:  Green

Fragrant Foliage:  No

Pruning Group: 3

Attracts:  Butterflies, Hummingbirds, Beneficial Pollinators, Visual Attention

Resistances:  Deer, Disease, Heat, Humidity, Insect

From the world-renowned Clematis breeder Szczepan Marczynski of Poland, comes this new sweet autumn clematis with red and purple flowers! Blooming a month or so earlier than sweet autumn clematis, ‘Sweet Summer Love’ produces up to a whopping 2,000 flowers in a single season that emerge a deep velvet red fading to deep purple with fuchsia accents. With a sweet but gentle fragrance as good as any other fragrant plant in existence that will fill a backyard with heavenly aroma, and being super hardy and one of if the not the easiest Clematis to grow, this dramatic and sensory vine deserves a sunny to partially shaded spot in every garden where it will grow. USDA Zone 4a-9b.

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 1 or 2 feet. Although you will be removing good stems and buds, this treatment keeps these vigorous growers in bounds. If not pruned, these vines will quickly become a mass of old diseased woody stems producing very few flowers. Always make sure to leave two good buds below where you make your cut. New growth will emerge from these buds to produce the current seasons vines and blooms.

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