This clematis has small flowers in large quantity. Flower is rusty purplish-brown, looks like black flower from a distance. Some say its flowers have some kind of fragrance. Seeds easily. Medicinal.
Clematis Ramona: I purchased her as a very small young plant in April at Walmart. She has grown well with morning and midday sun and plenty of water in 4 months in my flower garden. I also keep cypress mulch around her but not touching her stem at the base of the plant. I am looking forward to seeing her growth by next spring!
This member of the Buttercup Family is called Leather-Flower. It is a climbing vine on bushes in woods and thickets from Illinois to Pennsylvania and southward. It gets its name from the "leathery" petals that are really sepals that are dull reddish and bell-like.
A large number of conventional nurseries in the Midwest and East of the US do sell some of this Japanese vine in pots. It is pretty, but it is powerfully aggressive, grows super fast, and is also invasive to wild areas. One plant can self-sow around the yard a lot and into the neighbours' yards also, and the seedlings are not easy to dig out. It does have a stronger fragrance and heavier bloom than the similar, but less aggressive Virgin's-Bower Clematis (Clematis virginiana) that is native to much of the eastern half of the US. I have the latter and she is dioecious, having separate male & female plants, and is not making babies. Check out the entry of Clematis virginiana to see the difference.
This plant is horribly invasive in our neighborhood in the South Carolina Lowcountry. There is a large bank of plants in an untended wetland area a block away, and I see seedlings all over the neighborhood. We are frequently trying to pry out seedlings from all over our front and back yards, which is very difficult; we don't like to use herbicides.
This is one of my least favorite weeds; Japanese Honeysuckle and Thorny Olive are harder to get rid of, but at least they smell nice.
I bought Sweet Summer Love in 2014,. It took until 2017 to reach maturity.
The plant was in full bloom in 2017 when one side started to die. Within weeks the entire plant was dead.
It was supposed to be fragrant, but mine had no fragrance at all.
I posted a few pictures on mine when it was in full bloom showing it in all its glory before it died.
Because it had no fragrance I never even considered replacing it.
So my experience is 3 thumbs down, I would love to hear how it did for others.
This Pitcher's Bluebill or Purple Leather-Flower, gets about 12 feet long. The leaves get to be 3 inches by 2 inches in size. It is largely hairless. It is more woody than most clematis. It blooms about 1 to 2 months in mid-summer. It is a kind of leather-flower clematis with small urn-like flowers that have thick, succulent sepals, thus its name. It dies to the ground in late fall. It is found around woodlands, thickets, and fence rows from southwest Indiana to eastern Nebraska to Tennessee to Texas.
This endangered native species was first discovered in 1980 in Huntsville, Alabama. It is native to woodland areas of southern Tennessee and northern Alabama, often growing on rock, rocks, and boulders. Its common name is Huntsville Vasevine or Leather-Flower. It is one of the leather-flower kinds of Clematis that get their name from the sepals of the urn-like or bell-like flowers being thick and succulent.
My Henryi is starting all new growth, as it does after a dieback following a gorgeous display each spring. It's in a large hanging basket on the edge of my porch, where it gets morning sun and then bright light the rest of the day. It travels up the hanger and then mixes with a 5-leaf Akebia vine I have trained from post to post. This spring it traveled about 5' into the akebia and it looked like that vine had the large white flowers. I water it every other day with rain water I collect. To fertilize it and help fight the diseases it tends to get here in south Louisiana's humidity, I sprinkle granular Bayer Rose & Flower 3 in 1 once a month. It will bloom again in July and then again about October. Except for looking dead between flushes of growth and flowering, its huge white flowers are worth its care.
Grows well in large containers in Zone 10a of Southern California. First set of blooms begins late spring. Deadhead flowers as they fade to prevent seed development and snip off dry leaves to encourage a second set of blooms later in the same year. I grow sweet alyssum from seed and succulents around the base of the vine to provide shade for the roots throughout the year.
Sylvia Denny is a white semi double to double flowered vine. Extremely hardy in zone 5 and tolerates moving like it's nothing. Tolerates full shade to almost full sun.
The American Virginsbower grows in various sites from swamp and river banks to forest edges to fields to cliffs from Nova Scotia and southeast Canada down to northern Florida to eastern Texas to central Nebraska into southern Manitoba and back around the Great Lakes. I bought one plant in a small container sent by mail from Prairie Nursery in central Wisconsin and planted it where it grows up on my deck rails and on the Sweetbay Magnolia. It is fast growing of up to 20 feet in one year, though mine took a few years to get big. The white flowers of mine have a little bit of a sweet fragrance. This Clematis species is not sold by most garden centers or nurseries, where the colourful large-flowered cultivars are well-known and used instead. Native nurseries, specialty nurseries, and a few large, diverse nurseries sell some. It is not a common plant in gardens and landscapes. I've only seen some wild vines twice at two land preserves in southeast PA. The leaves are trifoliate compound leaves with some large teeth on margins. This species is dioecious and I have a female that still bears some hairy seed that might not be fertile. I have not seen any babies from seed, but the vine does do some ground suckering. The male plants have brighter white, slightly showier flowers. (I like this clematis better than the Sweetautumn Clematis from Japan that is very rampant growing and makes babies all over the place.)
Once this Clematis begins blooming it creeps up its support and blooms well into August. The flowers hold their integrity for a long period and the petals do not shatter when touched. This vine is a strong grower.
This Clematis does not perform well in my garden The flowers are poor and very quickly turn brown. It will be removed and replaced with a different variety.
I got this as a replacement for 'Apple Blossom,' which succumbed to some sort of fungal disease. Snowdrift is much hardier, but the blooms are not as striking. It does put on a good show, with lots of pure white blooms in early spring. After the main bloom, it continues blooming sporadically through fall. I have this along the edge of my deck and must be diligent to keep it pruned so it doesn't take over the entire railing and spill onto the decking itself. Nice evergreen plant for year-round interest. I have a daylily planted at its feet for shade, with the main vine in full sun. After a few years, this clematis also got whatever disease is apparently lurking in the soil. I replaced it with Virginia creeper.
Each year, this is the third, my clematis Blue Light manages to surpass my expectations. I have read that clematis aren't happy with cold wet springtime weather. After a mild winter, this spring tried to balance things out a bit with many cool and windy nights. And though the annual plants I set out, even the ones after Mother's Day this year were not happy campers, my Clematis Blue Light plants have had their best year yet!
They started blooming with the irises and are still going strong even though only a few of the late irises remain in flower.
Have posted 2 photos taken today, 6/4/16. The one showing the ongoing display, the 2nd showing the most double flower we've had to date.
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