Name: Duchess Of Albany Clematis - 1 Gallon Pot
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‘Duschess of Albany’ Clematis

Clematis texensis‘Duchess of Albany’

Plant Details

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

Plant Type: Flowering Vine

Height or Length at Maturity: 8-12′

Width at Maturity: 3-6′
Spacing: 3-5′ apart for covering fence

Growth Habit / Form: Climbing, Twining

Growth Rate: Fast

Flower Color: Pink with Dark Cherry-Pink bars
Flower Type: Single, Tulip Shaped

Flower Size: 2-3″ diameter
Flowering Period: Mid Summer through 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 (Amend heavy clay to ensure good drainage), Loam, Sandy, Silt

Soil Drainage: Moist but Well Drained

Soil pH: 5.5 – 7.0

Maintenance / Care: Low

Pruning Group: 3

Attracts: Butterflies, Hummingbirds, Beneficial Pollinators, Visual Attention

Resistances: Deer, Disease, Heat, Humidity, Insect

Description

A vigorous climber and profuse bloomer, ‘Duchess of Albany’ is a texensis hybrid featuring two-tone, tulip-shaped, 3″ diameter fluted pink flowers with a prominent cherry-pink bar down the inside center of each petal surrounding yellow stamens. Pinnately trifoliolate medium green foliage serves as an excellent backdrop for the flowers. At 8 to 12 feet tall it will quickly cover structures up to 10 feet tall. This one starts blooming in July in our gardens and continues through early fall. If left to meander along the ground, Duchess of Albany makes an attractive ground cover or filler around shrubs or as a companion for climbing roses and small trees. Easy to grow, nothing seems to discourage this beautiful flowering vine, even clay soils and blazing sun or part shade.

Landscape & Garden Uses

Growing 8 to 12 feet tall and 3 to 6 feet wide, the Duchess of Albany Clematis can be grown as a climbing vine to cover arches and pergolas, trellises and obelisks, fences and rails, posts and poles and other structures up to 10 feet or so in height or as a groundcover around large shrubs such as Hydrangeas. Excellent for use to climb small trees and the perfect companion for climbing roses. A fine addition to Clematis gardens, pink themed gardens and cottage gardens.

Suggested Spacing: 3 to 4 feet apart for covering a fence

Growing Preferences

Duche4ss of Albany Clematis is easy to grow in a moist but well-drained soil of average fertility and full sun to part shade. Clematis tend to like sun on their vines and shade on their roots to keep them cooler. So we always plant a groundcover or flowers around the base of the vine to meet this preference.

Note: All clematis prefer to be planted so that the crown of the plant, where its stem(s) emerge from the soil in which it was grown, is at least 3 to 4 inches below the soil level.

Clematis Pruning Group 3

Duchess of Albany Clematis is in pruning group 3, which consists 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 above the ground. 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. Although on some varieties you will be removing some green 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.

Helpful Articles

Click on the link below to find helpful advice from our experts on how to plant and care for Clematis vines

How To Plant A Clematis

How To Prune A Clematis

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