Clematis 'Sweet Summer Love' is fragrant, free-flowering, and easy to grow. This very special newcomer from renowned Polish breeder Marczynski produces masses of small, star-shaped reddish-purple flowers in July and August with occasional flowering into October. 'Sweet Summer Love' is the first fragrant, multicolored clematis and can produce over 2,000 flowers in a growing season. Hardy and disease-resistant, a mature plant can cover 12′ structures. A Proven Winners®/Color Choice® variety. Pruning group 3. PP 24,044
For beautiful colors, extravagance of blooms, and graceful habit, nothing compares with Clematis, the queen of the flowering vines. Whether used on posts or fences, clambering through shrubs and trees, or following wire frames in borders, they will enrich the landscape. Give them good soil, reasonable moisture, and shade at their roots.
For more information on Clematis care, click on Growing Guide.
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Latin Name Pronunciation: klem'uh-tis
This very diverse group of lovely, ornamental vines will entice you to garden on the vertical plane. There's a Clematis for virtually every situation: grow the shorter and non-climbing types through shrub Roses and small trees and cover an arbor or a trellis with the taller varieties. The long flowering season begins with the compact alpinas and macropetalas in early spring, progresses through early summer with the large-flowered hybrids, continues through late summer with the boisterous texensis and viticella varieties, and concludes with the exuberant and infallible Clematis paniculata that will literally cover an unsightly structure or arbor in one season.
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Clematis are divided into pruning groups as follows:
Group I plants bloom on old wood and require no pruning except to control size, in which case prune lightly after flowering back to a pair of healthy buds. Group I varieties include Clematis alpina 'Stolwijk Gold,' Clematis montana 'Mayleen,' and Clematis Sparky® Blue.
Group II plants bloom first on old wood and then again on new; prune lightly in early spring to shape and remove weak growth and then prune after bloom if desired.
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Group III plants all flower on new growth and can be cut back to 12″ in early spring. This group is ideal for growing through shrubs as all old growth is removed annually.
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