‘Alionushka’ Clematis

Clematis‘Alionushka’

Plant Details

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 4a-8b Find Your Zone

Plant Type: Flowering Vine

Height or Length at Maturity: 2-4′ on ground, can be trained on a trellis to 6′ or so high

Width at Maturity: up to 7′
Spacing: 3′ apart

Growth Habit / Form: Sprawling, Rambling

Growth Rate: Moderate

Flower Color: Rosy Pink
Flower Type: Single, Bell Shaped

Flower Size: 3″ long
Flowering Period: Summer to Frost

Fragrant Flowers: No

Foliage Color: Green

Fragrant Foliage: No

Sun Needs: Full to Mostly Sun, Part Shade, All Day Lightly Filtered Sun

Water Needs: Average

Soil Type: Clay (Amend heavy clay to ensure good drainage), Loam, Sandy, Silt

Soil Drainage: Moist but Well Drained

Soil pH: 5.5 – 7.0

Maintenance / Care: Low

Pruning Group: 3

Attracts: Butterflies, Hummingbirds, Beneficial Pollinators, Visual Attention

Resistances: Deer, Disease, Heat, Humidity, Insect

Description

A unique Clematis with a nearly continuous bloom throughout the season, ‘Alionushka’ provides a huge abundance of very pretty, 3 inch long, nodding, flared bellflowers in a lovely shade or rose to mauve pink. This one is more of a rambler than a climber, making it perfect for use in pots, planters and larger tubs or to weave through and intermingle with shrubs or ramble through perennial beds. That said, it can also be trained to grow on low fences, trellises, rails and other structures where it might reach 6 to 7 feet in height. grows well in part shade.

In case you were wondering, the name ‘Alionushka’ is the affectionate form of a Russian girls name. This Clematis won the Award of Garden Merit from the RHS.

Landscape & Garden Uses

Allow Alionushka Clematis to drape out the front of a large mixed container planting for a dramatic statement or tuck it into your perennial border for easy summer color. Excellent for planters and other containers for situating on patios, decks and around other outdoor living spaces where the flowers can be viewed from close up. An excellent rambler in shrub or perennial borders where it weaves around everything nearby. A fine addition to Clematis gardens, pink themed gardens and cottage gardens.

Suggested Spacing: 3 to 4 feet apart for mass planting

Growing Preferences

Alionushka Clematis is easy to grow in a moist but well-drained soil of average fertility and full sun to part shade. Clematis tend to like sun on their vines and shade on their roots to keep them cooler. So we always plant a groundcover or flowers around the base of the vine to meet this preference.

Note: All clematis prefer to be planted so that the crown of the plant, where its stem(s) emerge from the soil in which it was grown, is at least 3 to 4 inches below the soil level.

Clematis Pruning Group 3

Alionushka Clematis is in pruning group 3, which consists of late-flowering species that bloom from mid-summer into fall. This group flowers on the last 2 to 3 feet of the current season’s growth (new wood). They are easy to prune because you do not need to maintain any old wood. In February or March, cut each stem to a height of 1 or 2 feet above the ground. Always make sure to leave two good buds below where you make your cut. New growth will emerge from these buds to produce the current seasons vines and blooms. Although on some varieties you will be removing some green stems and buds, this treatment keeps these vigorous growers in bounds. If not pruned, these vines will quickly become a mass of old diseased woody stems producing very few flowers.

Helpful Articles

Click on the link below to find helpful advice from our experts on how to plant and care for Clematis vines

How To Plant A Clematis

How To Prune A Clematis

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This Alionushka Clematis was packaged well. and sent to me quickly. It was healthy and of generous size. I planted it right away and it is already blooming. Hurray for Wilson Bros Gardens!———————————-We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy your purchase for years to come! Thanks for the kind words and wonderful review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG

The clematis arrived in a timely manner, healthy and in good condition. They were packaged well.—————————————————————-We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy it for years to come! Thanks for the great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG