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Fragrant Flowers:  No

Foliage Color:  Green

Fragrant Foliage:  No

Pruning Group: 3

Attracts:  Butterflies, Hummingbirds, Beneficial Pollinators, Visual Attention

Resistances:  Cold Temperatures (-20F), Deer, Disease, Heat, Humidity, Insect, Black Walnut

A free-flowering and floriferous beauty, the large, 5 to 7 inch diameter star-shaped flowers of Lindsay Clematis have luscious deep purple-blue petals surrounding complimentary red anthers. The flowers are produced in abundance from top to bottom of the plant from late spring through early summer reblooming in late summer to early fall. With vines that climb 4 to 5 feet tall, Lindsay is perfect for use in containers or on a short obelisk or trellis, mailbox post, fence or rail. Also nice sprawling amongst other plants in garden borders. Lindsay thrives in full sun to part shade. We suggest at least 4 hours of direct sunlight for best flowering.

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 6 to 12 inches. Always make sure to leave two good buds along the stem below where you make your cut. New growth will emerge from these buds to produce the current seasons vines and blooms. If not pruned, these vines will quickly become a mass of old diseased woody stems producing very few flowers.

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