First flowering for my Montana Grandiflora. This was a £2 Wilco whip, planted 2 years ago. It spent last year putting down roots and beginning it's scramble into the tree. exciting times. Piilu below it and another unknown blue flowered variety on other side of tree trunk
I would use fine garden wire rather than string @Nollie as it will last longer. Agree with @Lizzie27 about the 20cm distance between spirals but 15cm would be fine. Not more than 20cm so you get a good dense coverage.
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@Nollie, you can get willow to soak for such a project, if that kind of thing floats your teabag. I have some willow soaking currently and hope to get to creating soon.
Many thanks @Lizzie27, @Obelixx and @Fire, so narrower gaps it is. It’s a group 3 so long life not an issue at least for this year, but I will look at something more permanent for next year.
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Hello fellow gardners this afternoon had to go and get 3 bags of Horticulture Grit from our local 'Secret Garden' family run nursery,while I was there wandering around to see what Made me smile I spied a clematis in quite a large pot called 'Early Sensation ' snap just like mine . I enquired for the name a few days ago. Can anyone have a re-think I'm really curious now, is Marlorena on here tonight . Oh and I only bought 1 treat 'Hosta Mouse Ears ' only because some little slimed thing has nibbled my new growth of 2022 already, typical !
Snap that's it and on the tag it said it only grows 1.5 m in 10 years ! So that explains we planted it when we moved here and my OH made an arch for the front garden and it's about 1m as of today. Very pretty ! Enjoy.
@Valleysgirl ..I'm not sure, I still think you've got 'Joe' but I'm not claiming any expertise on this, so check out the centre of the flower and compare with Eustace's.. 'Joe' is a male plant [staminate], 'Early Sensation' is a female flower [pistillate].
'Joe' is described as having star shaped stamens with yellow anthers at the tips.
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This was a £2 Wilco whip, planted 2 years ago. It spent last year putting down roots and beginning it's scramble into the tree.
exciting times.
Piilu below it and another unknown blue flowered variety on other side of tree trunk
I could well be wrong through!
..I'm not sure, I still think you've got 'Joe' but I'm not claiming any expertise on this, so check out the centre of the flower and compare with Eustace's..
'Joe' is a male plant [staminate], 'Early Sensation' is a female flower [pistillate].
'Joe' is described as having star shaped stamens with yellow anthers at the tips.
They are very similar..