This is a vigorous and trouble free clematis, and the darkest flowered one I've ever come across. The rich dark flowers are the colour o...Read Moref a ripe eggplant. For a really stunning effect, I combine it with morning glory "Heavenly Blue" or a light pink or mauve climbing sweet pea.
The flowers of this clematis do fade slightly as they age , but they never look washed out.
My vine grows about 7 feet high every year , I cut it back to the first set of buds in early May. It begins to bloom in my zone 3 garden in late July and doesn't stop til the earliest frosts get at it.
My neighbor planted this two years ago on a white arbor with the climbing white rose Iceberg. It is totally stunning! What's more, per...Read Morehaps due to our mild winter and early spring, it has been in heavy full bloom since about May 15. The flowers sit almost on the top of this arbor already. She didn't hard prune it this year. I have to plant one too! It's fabulous with white.
Romantika grows well in partial shade. It is a beautiful, generous plant with lovely smooth, green leaves and the darkest of purple flowe...Read Morers with yellow stamens. I can look at it all day. And, the faded flowers drop their petals, so there are no unsightly dead or dying flowers as with some other clematis.
Beautiful purple flower, so deep it's almost black. I grew this in a container for about six years before I planted it in the ground, c...Read Moreut it to the ground every Fall, and every Spring it comes back bigger and better. It usually flowers twice for me - once in the Spring after it's first growth, then again in the Fall after a second growth spurt at the end of summer. By far my favorite Clematis of all the ones I've grown.
This is a vigorous and trouble free clematis, and the darkest flowered one I've ever come across. The rich dark flowers are the colour o...Read More
My neighbor planted this two years ago on a white arbor with the climbing white rose Iceberg. It is totally stunning! What's more, per...Read More
Romantika grows well in partial shade. It is a beautiful, generous plant with lovely smooth, green leaves and the darkest of purple flowe...Read More
This was a slow starter but is finally coming into its own this year with lots of flowers.
Beautiful purple flower, so deep it's almost black. I grew this in a container for about six years before I planted it in the ground, c...Read More
A beautiful Clematis that opens with almost a black shade then fades to a deep purple as it ages.