Excellent, fast growing, twining vine or groundcover creates quick cover for trellises or fences. Very clean foliage with slight blue cast. Chocolate-purple flowers appear with leaves in early April.
Product Description
AKEBIA quinata – Fiveleaf Akebia
Excellent, fast growing, twining vine or groundcover creates quick cover for trellises or fences. Very clean foliage with slight blue cast. Chocolate-purple flowers appear with leaves in early April. Adaptable to drought and moisture, sun or shade. Pruning is needed in late spring after the flowers bloomed. Best placed as a trellis, fences, arbors, groundcovers, or woodland garden.
Sun: Full Sun/ Part Shade/ Full Shade
Soil: Well-drained, Sandy Loam, Moist
Size: Height 20-40ft., Width 6-9ft.
Zone: 4-8
Flower: Chocolate-purple
Bloom Time: March to April
Attributes: Showy Fruit, Tolerant to Deer and Some Drought, Heavy Shade, Beautiful Foliage, Fragrant Flowers,