Boulevard® Kitty™ Clematis

Description

Clematis 'Evipo097'

Height: 3 feet
Spread: 24 inches
Sunlight: full sun
Hardiness Zone: 4a
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Description:
This extraordinary, reblooming, compact variety is very free flowering and hardy, producing near white flowers from the ground up; an excellent choice for containers, garden walls, and patios; a great conversation piece.

Ornamental Features:
Boulevard® Kitty™ Clematis features showy white star-shaped flowers at the ends of the stems from late spring to early fall. Its compound leaves remain green in color throughout the season.

Landscape Attributes:
Boulevard® Kitty™ Clematis is an herbaceous perennial vine with a twining and trailing habit of growth. Its medium texture blends into the garden, but can always be balanced by a couple of finer or coarser plants for an effective composition.

Planting & Growing:
Boulevard® Kitty™ Clematis will grow to be about 3 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 24 inches. As a climbing vine, it should either be planted near a fence, trellis or other landscape structure where it can be trained to grow upwards on it, or allowed to trail off a retaining wall or slope. It grows at a medium rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 20 years. As an herbaceous perennial, this plant will usually die back to the crown each winter, and will regrow from the base each spring. Be careful not to disturb the crown in late winter when it may not be readily seen!This plant should only be grown in full sunlight. It does best in average to evenly moist conditions, but will not tolerate standing water. This plant should not require much in the way of fertilizing once established, although it may appreciate a shot of general-purpose fertilizer from time to time early in the growing season. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is somewhat tolerant of urban pollution. Consider applying a thick mulch around the root zone in both summer and winter to conserve soil moisture and protect it in exposed locations or colder microclimates. This particular variety is an interspecific hybrid.Boulevard® Kitty™ Clematis is a fine choice for the garden, but it is also a good selection for planting in outdoor pots and containers. Because of its spreading habit of growth, it is ideally suited for use as a 'spiller' in the 'spiller-thriller-filler' container combination; plant it near the edges where it can spill gracefully over the pot. It is even sizeable enough that it can be grown alone in a suitable container. Note that when growing plants in outdoor containers and baskets, they may require more frequent waterings than they would in the yard or garden.

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