Rouge Cardinal Clematis – 1 Gallon Pot

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Rouge Cardinal Clematis

Clematis ‘Rouge Cardinal’

Plant Details

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 4a-9b Find Your Zone

Plant Type: Flowering Vine

Height or Length at Maturity: 8-12′ depending on height of structure

Width at Maturity: 3-6′
Spacing: 3-4′ apart to cover fences and walls

Growth Habit / Form: Climbing, Dense, Twining, Twisted Branching

Growth Rate: Fast

Flower Color: Crimson-Red flushed with Purple
Flower Type: Single

Flower Size: 5-7″
Flowering Period: Late Spring 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 (Amended), Loam, Sand (Amended), Silt

Soil Drainage: Moist but Well Drained

Soil pH: 5.5 – 7.0

Maintenance / Care: Low

Pruning Group: 2 or 3

Attracts: Butterflies, Hummingbirds, Beneficial Pollinators, Visual Attention

Resistances: Deer, Disease, Heat, Humidity, Insect, Black Walnut

Description

All of our Clematis vines are trellised 2 year old plants in a 1 gallon pot.

With her truly breathtaking color, ‘Rouge Cardinal’ is a vigorous hybrid Clematis that aims to please. From late spring to late summer or early fall, this stunning beauty features large and abundant 5 to 7 inch diameter flowers with crimson-red petals and purplish accents. A vigorous yet compact vine that can reach 8 to 12 feet in height, depending on the height of the support structure. Excellent for trellises, arches, fences, posts and rails, and the mailbox. If you’re looking for a profuse bloomer with a show of color like no other Rouge Cardinal will not let you down.

Landscape & Garden Uses

Climbing 8 to 12 feet high and spreading 3 to 6 feet or more wide, the Rouge Cardinal Clematis is ideal for growing on fences, trellises, arches, mailbox posts, obelisks, poles, posts and rails, lamp posts and other structures. Excellent for pots, planters and other containers for situating on patios, decks and around other outdoor living spaces. A fine addition to Clematis gardens and red theme gardens.

Suggested Spacing: 3 to 4 feet apart to cover fences, trellises, and walls

Growing Preferences

This Clematis is easy to grow in a moist but well-drained soil of average fertility and full sun to part shade. Though it tolerates dry periods when established, it will appreciate an occasional watering in prolonged periods of dry weather. Make sure not to plant this one too deep as it tends to smother the plant. See pruning instructions just below.

Clematis Pruning Group 2 or 3

Clematis in Group 2 consist of all the early, large-flowered hybrid clematis that bloom in late spring or early summer and maybe again in late summer. Clematis in this group should be pruned lightly in late winter or early spring. Pruning consists of removing weak and crossing shoots then thinning down the plant to a structure of evenly spaced one and two year old stems. Cut each stem just above a pair of healthy buds. Plants in this group have the tendency to become bare at the base as they mature. You can under-plant with small shrubs or perennials to help conceal the bare stems. Alternatively, you can often force a flush of new growth from the base by cutting the vine back to 18 inches immediately after the flush of bloom. An alternate method of pruning Group 2 clematis is to prune only every three or four years. In this case, the clematis should be pruned as described for Group 3 clematis. This will produce a weak first flush of flowers in the summer after pruning.

Clematis in group 3 consist of late-flowering species that bloom from mid-summer into fall. This group flowers on the last 2 to 3 feet of the current season’s growth (new wood). They are easy to prune because you do not need to maintain any old wood. In February or March, cut each stem to a height of 1 or 2 feet. Although you will be removing good stems and buds, this treatment keeps these vigorous growers in bounds. If not pruned, these vines will quickly become a mass of old diseased woody stems producing very few flowers. Always make sure to leave two good buds below where you make your cut. New growth will emerge from these buds to produce the current seasons vines and blooms.

Helpful Articles

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