🌹 Product Details
📛 Name: Clematis 'Comtesse de Bouchaud' / 包查德女侯爵 / 康特斯德布肖
🌿 Class: Late Large-Flowered Clematis (Jackmanii Group)
🌲 Product Size: 1.5 Gal Live Plant
🌴 Height: 10 – 13 ft / 300 – 400 cm
🌺 Flower Size: 4" - 6" / 10 - 15 cm
🎨 Color: Satiny Rose-Pink with Soft Yellow Anthers
👃 Fragrance: None
🌸 Bloom Period: Mid-Summer to Early Autumn (Continuous Flush)
🌟 Group: 遅咲き大輪系 (新枝咲き系) - Group 3 (Late Blooming Group)
✂️ Pruning: III - Heavy Pruning
🌤️ Best Feature: Exceptional Wilt Resistance & Unstoppable Flower Volume
☃️ Hardiness Zones: 4 - 9 (Down to -34°C / -30°F)
☀️ Sunlight: Full sun to Partial shade (☀️/🌤️)
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✨ Key Highlights
🩵 Timeless Satiny Pink Visuals & Elegant Textures
Clematis 'Comtesse de Bouchaud' delivers an absolute masterclass in pastel elegance. Each large, single blossom boasts a brilliant, solid rose-pink hue completely free of distracting dark veins, allowing its luminous silver-edged sheen to catch the sunlight beautifully. The petals feature a unique, finely ribbed texture with slightly recurved tips, creating a heavily layered, three-dimensional effect. At the center sits a crown of delicate, contrast-rich creamy yellow anthers that accentuates the pure pink petals, offering an exquisite focal point for any cottage garden or modern landscape.
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🔄 Unrivaled Flower Productivity & Vigorous New-Wood Growth
Belonging to the prestigious Jackmanii lineage, this vintage hybrid is built for high-impact performance. As a late-flowering variety, it concentrates all its genetic energy into generating dense, fast-growing vines that explode with thousands of blooms on the current season's growth. From June through September, it creates an uninterrupted wall of color, consistently pumping out new buds as the older flowers finish, ensuring your garden remains vibrant when early-summer perennials start to fade.
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⏳ Durable Petals, Weather Hardiness & Long-Lasting Freshness
Unlike many delicate pastel climbers whose petals instantly bleach under intense sun or turn to mush in a summer downpour, the 'Comtesse' is structurally resilient. The velvety, leathery texture of the sepals gives the flowers incredible structural integrity. They hold their clear, dusky pink color without fading for weeks on the vine, standing tall against heavy rain and summer storms. For floral designers, the sturdy stems and clean color make them a fantastic choice for mid-summer romantic vase arrangements.
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☀️ Superior Wilt Resistance & Excellent Summer Heat Tolerance
While clematis wilt is the ultimate dread of many growers, 'Comtesse de Bouchaud' stands out as one of the most resilient and disease-resistant cultivars ever bred. It shows remarkable natural immunity to soil-borne pathogens and fungal blights. Furthermore, it thrives across a broad climate range; it possesses the rugged winter hardiness to survive brutal Zone 4 winters, yet exhibits outstanding heat and humidity tolerance in Zone 9 summers, remaining lush and green throughout the peak of the season.
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🚀 Spectacular Vertical Landscape Impact & Foolproof for Beginners
Reaching a mature height of 10 to 13 feet, this climbing vine is a premier choice for creating privacy screens, dressing up bare fences, or scrambling up pergolas. It is exceptionally striking when grown as a companion plant, allowed to weave through climbing white or deep red roses. Thanks to its straightforward Group 3 pruning requirements, it is completely foolproof for beginners—there is no complicated old-wood management required. Just cut it down hard in spring, and let its natural vigor do the rest.
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🌿 Growing Note
For maximum blooming success, select a location that receives at least 6 hours of daily sunlight while implementing the classic clematis rule: "tops in the sun, feet in the shade." Protect the base with shallow-rooted companion plants, groundcovers, or a thick layer of organic mulch to keep the roots cool and damp. This plant thrives in rich, well-draining, neutral to alkaline soil. Feed with a balanced, slow-release fertilizer in early spring as new shoots emerge. Because it flowers entirely on new wood, perform a mandatory heavy pruning (Pruning Group 3) in late February or March, cutting all stems down to about 12-18 inches (30-45 cm) from the base, just above a pair of healthy, swelling buds.
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📦 Live Plant Notice
This product is shipped as a high-quality live plant. Please note that plant height, leaf density, and current blooming stage will naturally vary depending on the season, shipping transit, and current nursery pruning cycles.
