Fruit color: Orange
Harvest time: Early fall
Size: 15-25' long vines
Uses: Fruit is very ornamental and holds its color when dry, making it great for arrangements. Birds will eat the fruit. Vines need support from a trellis or fence.
Hardiness: Zones 3-8

This is a brand new selection of the native American Bittersweet plant (Celastrus scandens). But, unlike the species, you only need one plant to bear fruit. The majority of the flowers formed on Autumn Revolution™ are perfect, meaning that the flower itself has both male and female parts. And the fruit is very large -- it's twice the size of berries normally seen on the species. The fruit is attractive to birds and people. It keeps its bright colors when dried so it's great for floral arrangements. Autumn Revolution™ is a vigorous grower and very winter hardy to Zone 3.

What you'll receive: 2-year, field-grown plants with 12 to 18-inch long stems and shipped bareroot (no soil or pot) and dormant (no foliage). Learn more about our plants.

Shipping: $0-$75=$12.00, $75.01-$125=$15, $125.01-$200=$20, >$200=10% of total. Shipped UPS Ground in spring from early April through mid May.

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Autumn Revolution Bittersweet is easy to grow in a typical garden. Just make sure you keep it consistently watered the first year. Also, don't forget to give this vine something to climb on! It's fast grower and needs support.

What's a "bareroot" plant?

"Bareroot" is a term that describes how a plant is shipped to you. A bareroot plant is not in a pot, and is usually dormant (not actively growing). See the photo to the right that shows what a bareroot rose looks like. The bareroot plants that we ship to you were harvested in the fall and placed in cold storage over the winter to keep them dormant. In the spring, we ship the bareroot plants to our customers, from early April through mid May.

Bareroot plants are easy to grow. We include planting instructions with your order. When you receive your plant, take it out of the packing material and place it in a bucket of water so that the roots are completely covered. Let the roots soak for 4 to 24 hours, then plant it in your garden. Full planting instructions with photos are available on our planting shrubs page.