Clematis 'Copernicus' 哥白尼

🌹Product Details
📛 Name: Clematis 'Copernicus' / 哥白尼铁线莲
🌿 Class: Early Large-Flowered Group (旧枝咲き系)
🌴 Height: 6.5 ft / 200 cm
🌺 Flower Size: 4" - 5" / 10 - 12 cm
🎨 Color: Vibrant Deep Blue with Pale Central Bar & Golden Anthers
👃 Fragrance: None
🌸 Bloom Period: Early Summer (Main), Mid to Late Summer (Flush)
🌟 Group: 旧枝咲き系 (早咲き大輪系) - Group 2 (Early Large-Flowered)
✂️ Pruning: II - Light Pruning
🌤️ Best Feature: Exceptional Color Retention
☃️ Hardiness Zones: 4 - 9 (Down to -30°C / -22°F)
☀️ Sunlight: Full sun to Partial shade (☀️/🌤️)
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✨ Key Highlights
🩵 Flower Beauty
Clematis 'Copernicus' showcases captivating semi-double to full blooms measuring 4 to 5 inches across. Each blossom is intricately constructed with 30 to 40 slightly ruffled sepals dressed in an intense, velvety deep blue. At the heart of every flower sits a striking crown of bright golden-yellow anthers mounted on crisp white filaments. This vivid contrast creates a luminous starry night effect across your vertical garden framework.
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🌸 Bloom Performance
Renowned for its extraordinary bloom count and continuous flowering habit, this Group 2 clematis delivers spectacular color from base to tip. The first main flush erupts in early summer on overwintered old wood, launching flowers abundantly from soil level to the top of the vine. As the season progresses, a second steady flush emerges on new summer shoots. This dual-wave blooming mechanism ensures your trellises and obelisks stay clothed in rich blue blossoms for months.
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🌿 Garden Performance
With a refined mature height of 6.5 feet, 'Copernicus' is perfectly scaled for modern gardens, patios, and container plantings. Its compact, vigorous vine is ideal for climbing trellises, obelisks, arbors, fences, and balcony planters, adding graceful vertical interest wherever space is limited.
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☀️ Plant Strengths
Built to withstand harsh winter conditions down to USDA Zone 4 (-30°C / -22°F), this clematis combines exceptional cold hardiness with strong disease resistance. It possesses excellent sun tolerance and color retention, preventing its velvety blue petals from bleaching in bright light, making it an extraordinarily dependable selection for both novice gardeners and seasoned botanical collectors.
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✨ Why You'll Love It
Awarded the prestigious Gold Medal at Flowers'Expo 2016, Clematis 'Copernicus' represents the pinnacle of modern European clematis breeding. It solves the common garden dilemma of bare-legged climbing vines by blooming profusely from soil level upwards. Whether showcased as a patio focal point in a decorative pot or grown along a cottage garden fence, 'Copernicus' delivers high-impact color, effortless sophistication, and outstanding year-after-year performance.
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🌿Growing Note
To achieve peak performance with your Clematis 'Copernicus', follow these professional horticultural recommendations:
• Light Requirements: Plant in a location receiving full sun to partial shade (4 to 6+ hours of daily sunlight). Ensure the top foliage receives light while the root zone stays shaded and cool using organic bark mulch, decorative stones, or low-growing companion perennials.
• Soil & Planting: Plant in rich, well-draining, humus-rich soil. When planting, set the crown approximately 2 to 3 inches deeper than its original nursery pot level to encourage strong underground shoot development and protect against clematis wilt.
• Watering: Keep soil evenly moist, especially during establishment and dry summer months. Avoid stagnant, waterlogged conditions around the roots.
• Nutrition: Feed in early spring with a balanced slow-release fertilizer or high-potassium organic rose/clematis food to stimulate abundant floral bud set.
• Pruning Guide (Group 2): Perform light pruning in late winter or early spring. Carefully remove any dead or weak stems, then trim surviving stems back to a pair of strong, healthy buds around 30 to 60 inches from the ground. A light deadheading after the primary early summer bloom flush will promote faster secondary summer reblooming.
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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.