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'Sweet Summer Love' Clematis x

Flower Season
  • Spring
  • Summer
Mature Size
15' 10' 4.6m 3.0m
Height: 10' - 15'
Spread: 6' - 10'
Height: 3.0m - 4.6m
Spread: 1.8m - 3.0m
  • 120 - 180 Inches
    72 - 120 Inches
    72 - 120 Inches
    3.0m - 4.6m
    1.8m - 3.0m
    1.8m - 3.0m

    Features

    When the world-renown clematis breeder Szczepan Marczynski of Poland told us he had what amounts to a sweet autumn clematis with red flowers that change to purple and that blooms months earlier, we were all in. The fragrance of sweet autumn clematis is as good as any plant in existence, and the same goes this beauty. Most Clematis can be tricky to grow, with brittle stems that break if you so much as look at them, but this plant is super sturdy and grows like a dream. Anyone can be successful growing this variety. It's as close to perfection as a plant can be.

    'Sweet Summer Love' gives you everything you want: the flowers, the fragrance, the ease of growth and cranberry-violet blooms that start over a month earlier than others - starting in July in the midwest and northeast, and lasting until mid-September. It will add lots of drama to gardens when trained up a trellis or other support.

    The first year you plant it, it does not do much besides grow roots. The next year it takes off, however, it is much more restrained than sweet autumn clematis and does not litter the garden with unwanted seedlings. This plant has what it takes to be the best-selling clematis of all time. It won a DGA Green Thumb award for the best new plant of 2014 and we expect it to earn many more awards and accolades as people get to know it.  

    'Sweet Summer Love' clematis is featured in our "Aroma Therapist" magazine ad.

    Fragrant Flower
    Long Blooming
    Vine: 
    Vine

    Characteristics

    Plant Type: 
    Shrub
    Shrub Type: 
    Deciduous
    Height Category: 
    Tall
    Garden Height: 
    120 - 180 Inches 3.0m - 4.6m
    Trails Up To: 
    180 Inches 4.6m
    Spacing: 
    72 - 120 Inches 1.8m - 3.0m
    Spread: 
    72 - 120 Inches 1.8m - 3.0m
    Flower Colors: 
    Purple
    Flower Shade: 
    cranberry-violet
    Foliage Colors: 
    Green
    Foliage Shade: 
    clean
    Habit: 
    Climbing
    Container Role: 
    Thriller

    Plant Needs

    Light Requirement: 
    Part Sun to Sun
    Light Requirement: 
    Sun

    The optimum amount of sun or shade each plant needs to thrive: Full Sun (6+ hours), Part Sun (4-6 hours), Full Shade (up to 4 hours).

    Maintenance Category: 
    Easy
    Blooms On: 
    New Wood
    Bloom Time: 
    Early Summer
    Bloom Time: 
    Mid Summer
    Bloom Time: 
    Late Summer
    Hardiness Zones: 
    4a, 4b, 5a, 5b, 6a, 6b, 7a, 7b, 8a, 8b, 9a, 9b
    Water Category: 
    Average
    Soil Fertility Requirement: 
    Average Soil
    Soil PH Category: 
    Neutral Soil
    Uses: 
    Landscape
    Uses Notes: 

    Landcapes.  May also be grown on a trellis in a large patio container.

    Maintenance Notes: 

    Prefers average, well-drained but moist soil. Keep the roots cool. May benefit from a hard pruning in late winter.  Leave at least two pairs of buds on each stem.

    Cranberry-purple flowers. Fragrant. Vine. Long bloom time.

    'Sweet Summer Love' Clematis x USPP 24,044, Can 5,303
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