Clematis 'Rouge Cardinal'

Clematis 'Rouge Cardinal', syn. 'red cardinal', also called bosrank in Dutch, is a large-flowered, deciduous climbing plant with a strong upright growth. The leaves are composed of lanceolate dark green leaflets. This forest vine flowers profusely from July to September with large velvety, star-shaped, crimson-red flowers with beige stamens, during the flowering period the color evolves more to purple-red. Clematis 'Rouge Cardinal' likes a position sheltered from the wind in full sun but with feet in the shade and requires a neutral to calcareous, well-drained soil. This late-flowering clematis is good to very hardy, attracts butterflies and bees and is suitable for wall planting, trellis or pergola vegetation.