Dynamic Duo - Honeysuckle and Clematis Collection

A formidable duo of colours! The orange and yellow flowers of Lonicera Mandarin® mingle with the dark purple inflorescences of Clematis Romantika. This wonderfully contrasting duo brings together two original and vigorous climbing plants, adorned with decorative deciduous foliage and fragrant summer flowers. Their long stems wrap around any support available to them. These climbers will then enthusiastically cover a pergola, an canopy, or take over a sad old hedge...

This duo consists of a Clematis Romantika and a Lonicera Mandarin.

The Lonicera Golden Trumpet is a very hardy, easy to grow climbing Honeysuckle, with beautiful delicately scented orange and yellow flowers. It has 4 to 8 cm long, opposite, ovate, lanceolate, deciduous, brown then bluish green leaves. From May to July, numerous 3 cm-long, orange and yellow tubular flowers diffuse a powerful and pleasant fragrance. They have two large coloured lips and expose the stamens. In autumn, red berries follow but these are toxic.

The Clematis Romantika catches the eye with the very dark shade of its abundant large velvety flowers and seduces with its good resistance to wilt disease. From June to September, flowers with 4 to 6 very dark purple petals bloom, taking on black and violet reflections as the hours go by. The centre of the flower, occupied by beautiful yellow stamens, further accentuates the dark colour of the flower. The moderate-sized, medium green, pinnate leaves with oval, glabrous leaflets, are of the viticella type. Clematis belong to the Ranunculaceae family. They are found in both hemispheres, particularly in Europe, the Himalayas, China, Australia, North and Central America. The 'Romantika' variety, introduced in Estonia in 1983, is a vigorous, resistant, perfectly perennial and hardy, woody and climbing plant that will quickly reach a height of 3 to 4 m, with a minimum spread of 1 m.

This duo will thrive in any rich, moist, well-drained soil in a sunny or semi-shaded location. Clematis like to have their feet in the shade and their heads in the sun. Although not necessary, light pruning at the end of winter is possible to balance the habit.

With its height of 3 to 4 m, this duo is ideal as a wall cover to dress up a fence, trellis, pole, pergola, or tree. In a container on a terrace, you will enjoy its fragrance even more!