Clematis ‘Yukiokoshi ' / 雪妆

🌹 Product Details
📛 Name: Clematis 'Yukiokoshi' / 铁线莲 雪おこし
🇯🇵 Origin: Premium Japanese Heritage Variety
🌿 Class: Early Large-Flowered Group (Double-flowered)
🌲 Product Size: 1 or 2 Gal Live Plant (According to Selection)
🌴 Height: 6.5 – 8.5 ft / 200 – 250 cm
🌺 Flower Size: 4.7" - 5.5" / 12 - 14 cm
🎨 Color: Pure linen white with initial chartreuse green midribs and lemon-yellow stamens
👃 Fragrance: None
🌸 Bloom Period: Late Spring to Early Summer (Main Flush), Late Summer to Early Autumn (Repeat Bloom)
🌟 Group: 旧枝咲き系 (早咲き大輪系) - Group 2 (Early Large-Flowered)
✂️ Pruning: II - Light Pruning
🌤️ Best Feature: Rare hand-torn ruffled double blooms & excellent container adaptability
☃️ Hardiness Zones: 4 - 9 (Down to -30°C / -22°F)
☀️ Sunlight: Full sun to Partial shade (☀️/🌤️)
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✨ Key Highlights
🩵 [Artisanal Ruffled Petals & Evolving Colors]
Experience the breathtaking visual theater of Clematis 'Yukiokoshi'. Each magnificent bloom is a masterpiece of nature, packed with 30 to 50 unruly, loosely set sepals that give it a uniquely textured, "hand-torn" appearance. When the fat buds first unfurl in late spring, they greet you with an exotic, creamy-yellow and chartreuse-green wash along the center bars. As the summer sun warms the garden, these tones beautifully bleach into a pristine linen-white, brilliantly contrasted by a central crown of delicate, lemon-yellow stamens.
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🔄 [Heavy Spring Flush & Reliable Reblooming Habit]
As an established, time-tested heritage vine, Yukiokoshi delivers an absolute explosion of flowers on its old wood during late May and June. The sheer volume of double blooms can completely cover its fresh green foliage, transforming your trellis into a vertical snowdrift. Thanks to its resilient wild genetics, a light post-bloom trim triggers rapid new growth, rewarding you with a charming second flush of elegant flowers as the late summer breeze cools down.
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⏳ [Premium Weather Resistance & Superb Flower Substance]
Do not let its delicate, paper-like appearance fool you—the petals of this premium Japanese cultivar possess exceptional substance. They hold up remarkably well against late spring rain showers and breezy days without shattering prematurely. This rugged durability ensures each individual bloom remains pristine on the vine for weeks, outlasting many modern single-flowered hybrids and providing long-lasting ornamental value.
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☀️ [Outstanding Cold Hardiness & Low-Maintenance Resilience]
Bred from wild Clematis patens species native to the mountains of East Asia, Yukiokoshi is a diva in appearance but incredibly low-maintenance in practice. It is fully winter-hardy down to USDA Zone 4 (less than -20°F), sleeping soundly through freezing temperatures and waking up with immense vigor. It shows excellent resistance to typical garden stressors, adapting smoothly to various soil types as long as they are fertile and free-draining.
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🚀 [Ultimate Container Potential & Vertical Garden Accents]
With a highly manageable, compact mature height of 6.5 to 8.5 feet, this vine is an absolute dream for small gardens, urban balconies, and container growing. It effortlessly winds its twining leaf petioles around obelisks, patio pillars, porches, or low fences. It looks particularly spectacular and high-contrast when grown against dark painted backdrops, deep brick walls, or when woven through darker evergreen shrubs.
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🌿 Growing Note
For optimal independent-station performance, plant your Yukiokoshi in a location that receives ample morning sun while keeping its sensitive root zone thoroughly shaded by companion perennials or a thick layer of organic mulch. It thrives in rich, moist, well-drained soil. When it arrives or during early spring, only prune lightly—remove dead or weak stems and trim back the remaining live growth to just above the strongest, plumpest buds (approx. 5 feet/150 cm from the base for mature vines). Deadheading immediately after the spring show is the secret key to unlocking a heavier autumn rebloom!
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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.