Clematis wilt

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• Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889

  October 2017

  google?

  Devon.

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• Joy90 Posts: 35

  October 2017

  I’m not sure it is as it’s not a whole stem and the leaves have gone Chrispy brown very near the bottom of the stem. 90% of the plant is green and healthy. They are alpine evergreen clematis varieties.

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• Richard Hodson Posts: 790

  October 2017

  Alpina clematis are not evergreen

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• Richard Hodson Posts: 790

  October 2017

  No one can help with the problem here, Muddle-Up, because there isn't a problem. Alpina clematis, part of the Atragene group are deciduous and lose some of their leaves in Winter. This is a natural occurrence. Also, they definitely do not get clematis wilt, very few clematis do.

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• Fairygirl Posts: 55,117

  October 2017

  My alpina often looks a bit manky at this time of  year down below - while still green up top. Like many plants, if foliage gets a bit dried out and weary it's not unusual for it to drop. 

  Another reason could be that the stem is damaged low down (slug/snail etc)  and you haven't seen it  - causing foliage to die off.

  What makes you think it's wilt Joy? 

  It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
  
  
  
  I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...

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• Richard Hodson Posts: 790

  October 2017

  Muddle-Up says:

  Presumably the OP, Joy, didn't know what was happening with her clemmie.  

  Therefore she posted her question.  She didn't know that there wasn't a problem.  She was hoping for advice, I assume.

  Now, maybe, she is able to see that there isn't a problem.  Not everyone who plants clematis knows everything there is to know about them.  Why should they?  Don't answer that.

  Joy....relax.....apparently your clemmie is just having an 'autumn' moment! 

  See original post

   I can assure you that no-one who plants clematis knows everything there is to know about them, we are all learning, and the best way to learn is to ask questions as Joy rightly did.

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