My Dad took some cuttings of a clematis Jackmanii Superba or similar. You may remember me mentioning it last year. He gave one to me. Apparently the original plant was in my great grandmothers garden. So I thought that’d be a lovely thing to have. He gave one to me and another to my eldest sister.
I made it a homemade trellis out of bamboo canes, planted it and it grew well to start with, then got powdery mildew and wilted, lost all its leaves. Month later started growing again. No flowers all year.
Anyway something was very unusual about it. It was climbing by twining with its stems. Not gripping on with leaf axils like clematis usually do. Bear in mind I was completely new to these plants last year! Very different growth to the other clematis I’d bought.
I mentioned it to Dad and he showed me a photo of the mother plant in his garden. Definitely a clematis. So I thought maybe it’s just a rare variety that twines. Spent a while researching on the Internet.
Came up as a topic of conversation several times over the year between us. With me becoming increasingly doubtful that this plant was a clematis. Dad adamant that it was!!
Now fast forward to the week before lockdown started. Parents already self isolating so we took them some essentials and stood in their back garden chatting through the back window.
I look over at Dads clematis and admire how much it had grown already. “Is this the clematis that you gave me a cutting from?” Yes he says. Because mine doesn’t look anything like that. I have a little poke around and find shoots from the nearby honeysuckle which had found their way around and up very close to the base of the clematis!
So it was in fact a Japanese honeysuckle that I was growing last year! He’s finally accepted it now. Think he’s now trying to grow me a proper Jackmanii cutting.
I was thinking this just has to be a honeysuckle... Nice story though... Hope you get the heirloom clematis eventually... Just to show we all do it... I potted up a weed recently, as I've now discovered...
Yes! Rhapsody in Blue sprouts green new growth and also red too. I’ve seen it do both. Last year all of the new growth was green. This year there was a lot more red. Especially from low down!
Yes! Rhapsody in Blue sprouts green new growth and also red too. I’ve seen it do both. Last year all of the new growth was green. This year there was a lot more red. Especially from low down!
Thankyou, I've never seen any red growth on it before, everything previously has been green.
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..thanks for showing your roses... both look very nice indeed... very full looking blooms...
My Dad took some cuttings of a clematis Jackmanii Superba or similar. You may remember me mentioning it last year. He gave one to me. Apparently the original plant was in my great grandmothers garden. So I thought that’d be a lovely thing to have. He gave one to me and another to my eldest sister.
I made it a homemade trellis out of bamboo canes, planted it and it grew well to start with, then got powdery mildew and wilted, lost all its leaves. Month later started growing again. No flowers all year.
Anyway something was very unusual about it. It was climbing by twining with its stems. Not gripping on with leaf axils like clematis usually do. Bear in mind I was completely new to these plants last year! Very different growth to the other clematis I’d bought.
I mentioned it to Dad and he showed me a photo of the mother plant in his garden. Definitely a clematis. So I thought maybe it’s just a rare variety that twines. Spent a while researching on the Internet.
Came up as a topic of conversation several times over the year between us. With me becoming increasingly doubtful that this plant was a clematis. Dad adamant that it was!!
Now fast forward to the week before lockdown started. Parents already self isolating so we took them some essentials and stood in their back garden chatting through the back window.
I look over at Dads clematis and admire how much it had grown already. “Is this the clematis that you gave me a cutting from?” Yes he says. Because mine doesn’t look anything like that. I have a little poke around and find shoots from the nearby honeysuckle which had found their way around and up very close to the base of the clematis!
So it was in fact a Japanese honeysuckle that I was growing last year! He’s finally accepted it now. Think he’s now trying to grow me a proper Jackmanii cutting.
I wonder what I’ll end up with this time!
Just to show we all do it... I potted up a weed recently, as I've now discovered...
I've never seen such a red cane, it looks like it's growing above the graft so not a sucker!
Yes! Rhapsody in Blue sprouts green new growth and also red too. I’ve seen it do both. Last year all of the new growth was green. This year there was a lot more red. Especially from low down!
whoops.. sorry Mr Vine Eye, just seen your post...
Thankyou, I've never seen any red growth on it before, everything previously has been green.
Looky, this was from early March. See both red and green new shoots.
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