Pruning Clematis

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• Berkley Posts: 431

  March 2018

  Thank you!

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• Richard Hodson Posts: 790

  March 2018

  Fond Memories is not Viticella Group, it is Late Large Flowered Group.  If you have planted your Group 3 clematis with the crowns 4 to 5 inches below ground, then you can chop the old stems back to ground level, they will shoot new stems, more flowering stems every year, from below ground.

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• Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889

  March 2018 edited March 2018

  @Richard Hodson , Hi Richard, nice to "see" you. I hope you are well.

  Devon.

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• Richard Hodson Posts: 790

  March 2018

  Thanks, yes, still above ground !!

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  March 2018

  That's always positive Richard,  for those of us who are '27 and holding' 

  
  Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
  
  
  
  
  
  

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