Clematis Montana Grandiflora on an arch?

Posts

• Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889

  April 2021 edited April 2021

  " a tad optimistic" 
  Montana is way too vigorous for that.

  Devon.

  2
• Fire Posts: 19,096

  April 2021

  "Am I being a tad optimistic putting this on a slender arch"

  
  

  Yes.
  

  1
• JoeX Posts: 1,783

  April 2021

  Hmm. I thought so.
  
  Can I get away with it for this spring/summer season, then move it in autumn to somewhere with more space to grow like against the front of the house?

  0
• punkdoc Posts: 15,039

  April 2021

  You would be better off planting it in a better place now.

  How can you lie there and think of England
  When you don't even know who's in the team
  
  S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border

  1
• Obelixx Posts: 30,090

  April 2021

  Maybe Marble Arch would do so yes - plant it somewhere better now and plant it well - watering before, depth, soil improvement and watering and feeding afterwards.  Then it can get its feet down happily and you can give it the support it needs as it grows.  It will want to get to between 7 and 10 metres so train it well as it does grow.

  Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
  

  "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."

  Plato
  

  2
• JoeX Posts: 1,783

  April 2021

  Okay, no love for bodging it this year.

  0
• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  April 2021

  It won’t do anything much in its first year so there’s no point in planting it there now. 

  Either plant it somewhere where it can get established or grow it in in a large container until it can go in the ground. 

  
  Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
  
  
  
  
  
  

  0