Rouge Cardinal Clematis

Description:

A vigorous and hardy climber offering a truly delicious color for the garden; the rich velvet-crimson flowers appear in abundance in early summer, repeating throughout the season; a truly distinguished color for the vertical garden

Ornamental Features:

Rouge Cardinal Clematis features showy crimson star-shaped flowers with white eyes at the ends of the stems from mid summer to early fall. It has green foliage throughout the season. The compound leaves do not develop any appreciable fall colour. The fruit is not ornamentally significant.

Landscape Attributes:

Rouge Cardinal Clematis is a multi-stemmed deciduous vine with a twining and trailing habit of growth. Its medium texture blends into the garden, but can always be balanced by a couple of finer or coarser plants for an effective composition.

This is a relatively low maintenance vine. It is a Type 3 clematis; each spring it should be pruned back to within a few inches of the ground, as it flowers on new wood of the season. It is a good choice for attracting hummingbirds to your yard. It has no significant negative characteristics.

Rouge Cardinal Clematis is recommended for the following landscape applications;

• Accent
• General Garden Use
• Hedges/Screening
• Container Planting

Plant Characteristics:

Rouge Cardinal Clematis will grow to be about 10 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 24 inches. As a climbing vine, it tends to be leggy near the base and should be underplanted with low-growing facer plants. It should be planted near a fence, trellis or other landscape structure where it can be trained to grow upwards on it, or allowed to trail off a retaining wall or slope. It grows at a medium rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 20 years.

This vine should only be grown in full sunlight. It does best in average to evenly moist conditions, but will not tolerate standing water. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is somewhat tolerant of urban pollution. Consider applying a thick mulch around the root zone in both summer and winter to conserve soil moisture and protect it in exposed locations or colder zones.

This particular variety is an interspecific hybrid.