I feel your pain. I have a 'Royal Velours' which likes its spot so much that it goes everywhere, billowing out over the deck and (this year) trying to engulf the chairs, which proved the perfect support until a cruel gardener came along and set them free with secateurs. However, it has such a long flowering period that I cherish it.
There are only two things you can do. One is to accept that the beast will go crazy, but let it grow and grow. Lower shoots that are swallowing up your prized specimens can be cut out and the top bits left to their own devices. Strategic tying-in will help, though the shoots break incredibly easily. The other thing would indeed be to move it, as it will cause no harm growing into a tree. The only problem is that digging it out will be a time-consuming chore, but you could do it more easily in winter when the shoots have died down (and before mid-Jan when they break again from the base).
I think though that keeping on clipping the whole plant back in the growing season will have the negative effect of continually cutting off the flowering shoots as well, so you will gain more vegetative growth at the expense of flowers.
C. Royal Velours sounds just what we could do with at the back of The Wilderness when the ash tree has been pollarded and there’s a bit more light there .... 🤔
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
How good a doer @Fairygirl? C. Montana ‘grandiflora’ has been planted in that area 6 or 7 years and is only just getting going. Mind you, I’m hopeful that pollarding the ash will give a lot more light and moisture around there.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
It does well here @Dovefromabove, and I used to have it growing with a large Fatsia in a contained bed by my back door, set into the decking we had. We have plenty of moisture certainly, but that bed was quite sheltered from the prevailing rain/weather, and I can't remember ever having to give it any attention. Neither plant was ever compromised.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
There are only two things you can do. One is to accept that the beast will go crazy, but let it grow and grow. Lower shoots that are swallowing up your prized specimens can be cut out and the top bits left to their own devices. Strategic tying-in will help, though the shoots break incredibly easily. The other thing would indeed be to move it, as it will cause no harm growing into a tree. The only problem is that digging it out will be a time-consuming chore, but you could do it more easily in winter when the shoots have died down (and before mid-Jan when they break again from the base).
I think though that keeping on clipping the whole plant back in the growing season will have the negative effect of continually cutting off the flowering shoots as well, so you will gain more vegetative growth at the expense of flowers.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
We have plenty of moisture certainly, but that bed was quite sheltered from the prevailing rain/weather, and I can't remember ever having to give it any attention. Neither plant was ever compromised.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.