I've just posted that pic on the other thread too Obs. It's really romped away this year. It has a scent too, but you have to be quite close to it. It's currently my favourite plant in the garden. I have a small Philadelphus just in front of it, and the white broom further along, so it's a little spot which is glowing just now, especially at dusk.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
May I ask how long it takes for a clematis to get established? I planted a C. Hania last Spring and it made one little flower. It seems better this year, but no flowers have opened yet.
Arabella is non-climbing Integrifolia Group, you need to grow it through a small obelisk or through a shrub, or let it sprawl on the ground, superb plant.
Your Hagley Hybrid is indeed a group 3 for pruning which means you cut it down in winter or early spring and it produces all new stems which flower that season. For a group 1 you need to be looking for a cirrhosa or an armaddii or a montana type.
Your Virginia Creeper is an RHS pruning group 11 so you could leave that in place, unpruned, if that's what suits your needs and then just tidy it up when it exceeds bounds.
Timing: Those that flower on the previous year's growth should be pruned after flowering and where flowering occurs on the current year's growth prune in late winter or spring. Examples: Akebia, Eccremocarpus, honeysuckle (Lonicera), Parthenocissus, Trachelospermum, Vitis. Pruning: No regular pruning needed. However trimming may be required to keep them to the space available, removing as much from the longer shoots as necessary.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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Clematis 'Samaritan Jo' can also randomly flower in semi-double form, as can be seen in the 2 flowers on the right. I'd say about 1 flower in 10 is semi-double on my specimen.
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I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
It's really romped away this year. It has a scent too, but you have to be quite close to it. It's currently my favourite plant in the garden.
I have a small Philadelphus just in front of it, and the white broom further along, so it's a little spot which is glowing just now, especially at dusk.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Your Virginia Creeper is an RHS pruning group 11 so you could leave that in place, unpruned, if that's what suits your needs and then just tidy it up when it exceeds bounds.
1. Vigorous climbers (Pruning group 11)
Timing: Those that flower on the previous year's growth should be pruned after flowering and where flowering occurs on the current year's growth prune in late winter or spring.
Examples: Akebia, Eccremocarpus, honeysuckle (Lonicera), Parthenocissus, Trachelospermum, Vitis.
Pruning: No regular pruning needed. However trimming may be required to keep them to the space available, removing as much from the longer shoots as necessary.
Clematis, generally, have 3 distinct pruning groups which are very well explained here - http://www.clematis.hull.ac.uk/new-pruning.cfm
The 13 RHS pruning groups cover all kinds of woody plants and their optimum pruning period - https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?pid=954