Clematis viticella ‘Etoile Violette’ at Digging Dog Nursery

Clematis

Simple and beautiful, Clematis includes over 300 named cultivars and even more wild species than the rose. Our selections offer stylish blossoms, attractive carefree foliage, and ornamental seed heads, in exchange for a minimum of attention. Use them to cover just about every stump and dead tree, as well as on trellises, arbors, pergolas, walls and tall shrubs. They prefer to be planted slightly deep in cool well-drained soil with mulch or a ground cover to shade their feet; provide a support and let them climb. Each vine is 18 inches to 2 feet tall. Medium Band.

Clematis viticella ‘Etoile Violette’

Clematis viticella ‘Etoile Violette’ (T-0042)

Each 22.75

Long-lasting volumes of regal, dark inky purple blooms envelop this energetic, French-bred AGM recipient from midsummer through early fall. A classic care-free garden mainstay since 1885, ‘Etoile Violette’s neat pinnately trifoliate green leaves are nearly obscured by the single, 2 to 3 in. seminodding flowers that feature spritely cream-colored stamens clutching four to six broad well-spaced tepals, each with blunt tips plus a satin gleam. Spotlight the robust deciduous habit on pillars, hightailing up trees, scampering upon shrubs and intermingling with yellow-flowering Rosa ‘Crepuscule’.

Blooms June–September

Size: 9' 0" – 12' 0" high x 0" & spreading wide.

Hardy to zone 4.

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