Clematis puddle

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• Fairygirl Posts: 55,117

  May 2021

  I don't understand your query. 
  
  'Have moonta which has been teriffic but mow no growth'- what does that mean?
  
  If you have puddles at the base of your clematis, it suggests the ground doesn't have sufficient drainage. 

  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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• newlass17Uok4Im2F Posts: 6

  June 2021 edited June 2021

  Have montana clematis which was flowering greatly last year. This year there is a puddle as base and no new growth. Wondering why.

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• newlass17Uok4Im2F Posts: 6

  June 2021

  Thank you For comment but my ground at that area is very well drained & clematis is only plant with a strange puddle 

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• B3 Posts: 27,505

  June 2021

  Do you know where the water is coming from? Are the plants at the bottom of a slope? Might you have a cracked pipe somewhere?

  In London. Keen but lazy.

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• Obelixx Posts: 30,090

  June 2021

  That spot is definitely not well drained and montanas hate having wet feet.   The base of that trunk loos rotted to me so I suspect the water has been there long enough to kill it off or seriously damage it.
  
  You need to investigate where that water is coming from in case you have a leak in your water pipes or drainage/sewers.

  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
  

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• newlass17Uok4Im2F Posts: 6

  June 2021

  Thank you all. Shall investigate nextdoors pipe system. Strange. it's only that one plant. All next to it are dry and well.

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• newlass17Uok4Im2F Posts: 6

  June 2021

  Update. Nothing to do with pipes. Found that another 3 have same prob' in different areas of garden. 
  Recently found simiar from 2014 on GW so following that advice. Thank you again. 

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