SWEET AUTUMN CLEMATIS

 

Sweet Autumn Clematis is a beautiful vining plant that blooms in the fall.  It is nicely fragrant and is loved and visited by thousands of bees.  When it blooms it is covered with small star shaped white flowers. It is very invasive and will climb on anything.  It thinks the gingerbread trim on my house was cooked up just for it. 

It is supposed to be cut back in the spring but we cut it back in the fall hoping to slow it down. 

 

 

 

The vines in our yard love to climb on the old leaning arbor that will not stand up straight.  We have had it propped up so many times only to find it wanting to lean like the Leaning Tower of Pisa.  We feel embarrassed to ask the grandsons to stand it up again for fear they will not come back to see us. 

 

The Sweet Autumn Clematis is absolutely beautiful when it blooms but is quite a task to cut down and tow away in the fall.

 

Sweet Scents and Happy Bees for a Few Weeks!