Pink Flamingo Clematis - 1 Gallon Pot

Pink Flamingo Clematis Clematis‘Pink Flamingo’ Plant Details USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 3b-9b Find Your Zone Plant Type: Flowering Vine Height or Length at Maturity: 10-15' Width at Maturity: 6-8'Spacing: 4+' apart to cover fences and walls Growth Habit / Form: Climbing, Dense, Twisted Branching Growth Rate: Moderate Flower Color: Pink ShadesFlower Type: Single, Bell Shaped Flower Size: 1-2" longFlowering Period: Early Summer to Early Fall Fragrant Flowers: No Foliage Color: Green Fragrant Foliage: No Sun Needs: Full to Mostly Sun, Part Shade, All Day Lightly Filtered Sun Water Needs: Average Soil Type: Clay (Amend heavy clay to ensure good drainage), Loam, Sandy, Silt Soil Drainage: Moist but Well Drained Soil pH: 5.5 - 7.0 Maintenance / Care: Low Pruning Group: 1 Attracts: Butterflies, Hummingbirds, Beneficial Pollinators, Visual Attention Resistances: Deer, Disease, Heat, Humidity, Insect Description One of the most elegant flowering climbers in our gardens, the Pink Flamingo Clematis is also one of the most easiest to grow. An early bloomer, from mid to early summer this variety features an abundance of dainty, nodding, bell-shaped flowers with soft pink petals etched with deeper pinkish purple veins. Happy plants will often rebloom in late summer. After flowering the vine is adorned with attractive white seed heads that dangle from the ends of flowering stems in fall. A very hardy Clematis that puts on a spectacular show as a climber or rambling groundcover. Landscape & Garden Uses Growing 10 to 15 feet tall and 6 to 10 feet wide, the pink Flamingo Clematis is ideal for growing on arbors, pergolas, fences, trellises, arches, tall obelisks, poles, lamp posts and other structures. Also excellent as a rambling groundcover. A fine addition to Clematis gardens, pink themed gardens, Asian gardens and cottage gardens. Suggested Spacing: 4+ feet apart on fences and trellises Growing Preferences Pink Flamingo Clematis is easy to grow in a moist but well-drained soil of average fertility and full sun to part shade. Clematis tend to like sun on their vines and shade on their roots to keep them cooler. So we always plant a groundcover or flowers around the base of the vine to meet this preference. Note: All clematis prefer to be planted so that the crown of the plant, where its stem(s) emerge from the soil in which it was grown, is at least 3 to 4 inches below the soil level. Clematis Pruning Group 1 Clematis in pruning Group 1 flower on last year's wood and therefore should not be cut down to near ground level (especially montanas, armandii, chrysocoma and gracilifolia which can be killed by hard pruning). They should be pruned as soon as possible after they finish flowering. Avoid pruning them after the end of July, so they have time to produce next year's flower buds before winter sets in. This group should be lightly pruned to remove all dead and wispy growth. Additional pruning can be performed to remove three or four year old wood to reduce the bulk of the plant. Cut each stem just above a pair of healthy buds. Helpful Articles Click on the link below to find helpful advice from our experts on how to plant and care for Clematis vines How To Plant A Clematis How To Prune A Clematis Plant Long & Prosper! Meet The Wilson Brothers & Staff Questions? Contact Us!