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Montana Taking off!
smigger55
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Hi all, this is my first post 
I recently started gardening in April this year and am thoroughly enjoying it... one of my first purchases was a Clematis Montana which is situated in my front garden growing like wildfire up my wall, and has grown about 7ft' + already, now you'd think I'd be thrilled to bits with that... but there isn't one single bud! It's all green leaves and shoots... can anyone tell me where I'm going wrong or is this normal? It gets watered & fed regularly, and is in sun all morning till around 11.30am Thank you... ????
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The shoots formed this summer will flower next Spring. Then you prune after flowering.
Montana flowers early in the year smigger....yours will flower next year now.
It's one of the clems that flowers early on last season's growth so let it grow, keep it trained to its supports and give it a feed of liquid tomato food to help with flower formation.
As Fidget says, prune after flowering finishes next spring but only if it needs keeping in bounds. Otherwise, feed it some slow release clematis food next spring and carry on training it and tieing it in to its support.
Not f the aim is to have flowers in spring! Montanas only get woody and twiggy if their owner neglects the pruning and training.
Properly managed, they are really beautiful. Good cover for birds, too.
Thank you all for your replies.. I will look forward to next Spring when hopefully I'll have some lovely flowers