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Pruning Group - Clematis Rhapsody
NaseemBanu
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I'm somewhat confused - again!
I bought a Clematis Rhapsody plant thinking it was classed in Group 3 for pruning. However on some sites it's described as being in Group 2.
I bought it specifically because I want it as a companion plant for a climbing rose; the idea being that pruning would be easy. A good, clean prune in Spring.
Looking for reassurance that I should treat it as such.
I bought a Clematis Rhapsody plant thinking it was classed in Group 3 for pruning. However on some sites it's described as being in Group 2.
I bought it specifically because I want it as a companion plant for a climbing rose; the idea being that pruning would be easy. A good, clean prune in Spring.
Looking for reassurance that I should treat it as such.
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Most clematis can be treated as 3 if you need to.
...I do it with all group 3's that I grow or have grown, that is viticellas and texensis types.... and later flowering group 2's.. I choose not to pinch out every stem, perhaps about half.. I also choose not to do it on early flowering group 2's or group 1's...
I will also pinch out some on herbaceous..
...try it and see for yourself, this is how you learn... as you see below, I pinched out the growing tip about half inch above the nodes.. what then happens is that the clematis produces 2 stems either side of the pinched out one, so more flowers for you and rampant clematis are more contained that way..