![]() Propagation: Seed cuttings in spring or summer. Pests and Diseases: None of significance. It even does well in part shade.īloom: Small white, fragrant flowers are produced in terminal panicles from late summer to early fall.Ĭare: Blooms on new growth so prune hard in the fall after blooming or in early spring. Alternatively, it can be left to sprawl as a ground cover. The vigorous nature and large size of the plant make it especially valuable when creating a screen or covering a sturdy pergola or fence. The vine is very large and reseeds itself so in some areas of the country it is considered a weed. Like other clematis, this one produces beautiful swirling seed heads when the flowers fade. The late bloom time is nature’s gift to bees and other pollinators as most plants wind down for the winter. The tiny flowers have a vanilla-like fragrance and are produced in great masses during the late summer and early fall. Most of the oak leaves have fallen and because it is usually the last tree to drop leaves, I may only have to rake a few times until Spring just to keep things clean and neat.This is not one of the big flowered clematis that you might be used to. The soil here has a high clay content and the organic matter will improve drainage, too. The mulch helps the soil to maintain a more even temperature.ĭuring the hot, dry Summers, the mulch helps the soil retain moisture and prevent weeds. Moisture in the ground freezes and expands, pushing the plant up and out of the soil. Heaving can be a problem where the ground freezes at night but the daytime temperatures are well above freezing like they are here in the Piedmont region on North Carolina. Mulching not only keeps the grown moist during the Winter to prevent the roots from drying but also prevents the plants from heaving out of the ground during the freezing and thawing cycles. In the Spring I will pull the leaves back away from the hydrangea, perennials, and other plants in this bed to allow the new growth in Spring more exposure to the sun. These leaves will decompose over the Winter. The seedlings have an unusual silver streak over the center vein of each leaflet.Īfter raking the leaves from the oaks and sweet gums, I mulched the front beds. This is a seedling which came up near the porch over the Summer. The vines have no tendrils but use their three lobed leaves to twist around and hold on to structures while climbing. A Group 3 late-flowering clematis (blooms on new wood in the summer and fall dies to the ground over winter), Clematis Sweet Autumn should be pruned hard. Once the vines grow a few feet of new growth I will begin to train them around the post and each other. I left a few stems to become the main vines for the coming season.Īfter the month or so of flowering in August and September, these fluffy, white seeds form. It was so heavy and thick it had warped the top of the plastic lamp and no light was comming through. They begin blooming in late August with very sweet-scented small white flowers.īelow, I had removed the huge mass off the top of the lamp. The one below I have posted several pictures in bloom before. They have an unusual growth habit in that they grow throughout the Winter and by Spring can nearly cover structures such as the lamp-post. I have several around the garden thanks to the habit of reseeding. Otherwise, they grow into a tangled mess and reseed throughout the garden. Sweet Autumn clematis is one of those that is best when severely pruned each Fall. There are a few plants which require a hard annual pruning to be at their best.
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