Purple Wreath is a very lovely small climber with drooping long racemes of delicate violet-purple star-like flowers. It is a semi-shrub and semi-climber and the small wooden trunk develops artistic curves over the years. It looks as if an Ikebana expert has shaped it for his floral arrangement. It grows best in sunshine. It flowers in spring. The flowers come in raceme reaching over 30cm long. The true flower, which is purple, lasts a couple of days but the blue bracts remain much longer, slowly turning grey.