Clematis Elsa Spath - 5 Live Plants in 4 Inch Growers Pots - Clematis 'Elsa Spath' - Starter Plants Ready for The Garden - Beautiful Dark Lavender Flowering Vine

A beautiful, reliable selection that produces a profusion of blue flowers with lavender tones. A good choice for training on walls, arbors, or growing through medium to tall shrubs. Deciduous. Follow a regular watering schedule during the first growing season to establish a deep extensive root system. Provide the support of a trellis or arbor. Roots prefer a cool, shaded area, tops in the sun. Elsa Spath Clematis features showy lilac purple star-shaped flowers with yellow eyes at the ends of the branches from early to late summer. It has green foliage throughout the season. The compound leaves do not develop any appreciable fall color. The fruit is not ornamentally significant. Elsa Spath Clematis is a multi-stemmed deciduous woody vine with a twining and trailing habit of growth. Its average texture blends into the landscape, but can be balanced by one or two finer or coarser trees or shrubs for an effective composition. This is a relatively low maintenance woody vine. It is a Type 2 clematis, which means it will bloom primarily on old wood of the previous season, with a second flush later in summer. Dead and weak vines should be removed in late winter, and remaining vines should be trimmed back to the first buds that are seen to remove dead stems. It is a good choice for attracting hummingbirds to your yard. It has no significant negative characteristics.