Thanks for the advice on supports. I'm going to keep the wood trellis now - I like how it looks, it cost a lot of money which I'd be mad to throw away, and generally the plants seem quite happy on it. Next time I'll consider a wire frame like that though. Thanks again.
Mine have trellis, but wires above. I found a pic which sort of shows it. It's trained along wires alone, further along on the left as I have storage etc there
The macro grows through the other Group 2 to it's right. You can see the two different buds - Miss B facing up, macropetala facing down They're in two different beds, but next to each other
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Great that your clematis has recovered but do keep up the watering till September.
I grow my clematis here (new garden to us) on builders' rusty mesh trellis that is wider than it is tall so I can train them along it very easily and you get more flowers form horizontal or diagonally trained stems. I also have two recently planted against a wall that has wires stretched across it.
In my last garden I had them on obelisks but they out grew them as they matured over the years and also wooden trellis panels on battens against walls or wooden trellis panels between fence posts as well as some on the builders' mesh which I used to separate a couple of areas of the garden after having to replace wooden trellis panels that berak in high winds and rot in all the Belgian rain.
I'd go for tensioned wires or mesh every time. Cheap, discreet and indestructible. Once a clem matures it hides its supports anyway so why go expensive?
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The macro grows through the other Group 2 to it's right. You can see the two different buds - Miss B facing up, macropetala facing down
They're in two different beds, but next to each other
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I grow my clematis here (new garden to us) on builders' rusty mesh trellis that is wider than it is tall so I can train them along it very easily and you get more flowers form horizontal or diagonally trained stems. I also have two recently planted against a wall that has wires stretched across it.
In my last garden I had them on obelisks but they out grew them as they matured over the years and also wooden trellis panels on battens against walls or wooden trellis panels between fence posts as well as some on the builders' mesh which I used to separate a couple of areas of the garden after having to replace wooden trellis panels that berak in high winds and rot in all the Belgian rain.
I'd go for tensioned wires or mesh every time. Cheap, discreet and indestructible. Once a clem matures it hides its supports anyway so why go expensive?
https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/popular/clematis