Plant Library

Other Names:  Fleeceflower Vine, syn. Fallopia baldschuanica

Description:

A visually pleasing variety with a somewhat restrained growth habit, noted for its lemon-yellow foliage held on red stems; unique, fragrant white flowers create lasting interest with their long blooming season; creates a quick screen on garden structures

Ornamental Features

Lemon Lace Silver Lace Vine is covered in stunning panicles of fragrant white flowers along the branches from mid summer to early fall. It has attractive lemon yellow deciduous foliage. The oval leaves are highly ornamental but do not develop any appreciable fall colour. The red branches are extremely showy and add significant winter interest.

Landscape Attributes

Lemon Lace Silver Lace Vine is a multi-stemmed deciduous woody vine with a twining and trailing habit of growth. Its average texture blends into the landscape, but can be balanced by one or two finer or coarser trees or shrubs for an effective composition.

This is a high maintenance woody vine that will require regular care and upkeep, and can be pruned at anytime. It is a good choice for attracting bees to your yard. Gardeners should be aware of the following characteristic(s) that may warrant special consideration;

• Invasive

Lemon Lace Silver Lace Vine is recommended for the following landscape applications;

• Accent
• General Garden Use
• Container Planting

Planting & Growing

Lemon Lace Silver Lace Vine will grow to be about 20 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 24 inches. As a climbing vine, it tends to be leggy near the base and should be underplanted with low-growing facer plants. It should be planted near a fence, trellis or other landscape structure where it can be trained to grow upwards on it, or allowed to trail off a retaining wall or slope. It grows at a fast rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 25 years.

This woody vine does best in full sun to partial shade. It prefers to grow in average to moist conditions, and shouldn't be allowed to dry out. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is highly tolerant of urban pollution and will even thrive in inner city environments. This is a selected variety of a species not originally from North America.

Lemon Lace Silver Lace Vine makes a fine choice for the outdoor landscape, but it is also well-suited for use in outdoor pots and containers. Because of its spreading habit of growth, it is ideally suited for use as a 'spiller' in the 'spiller-thriller-filler' container combination; plant it near the edges where it can spill gracefully over the pot. It is even sizeable enough that it can be grown alone in a suitable container. Note that when grown in a container, it may not perform exactly as indicated on the tag - this is to be expected. Also note that when growing plants in outdoor containers and baskets, they may require more frequent waterings than they would in the yard or garden.