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Summer watering of established clematis in the ground? 😠

FireFire Posts: 19,096
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How long would you judge a clematis to be "established"?  How long would it take for you to stop watering them through the summer? I put in a cirrhosa about four years ago, in earth with regular manure and other organic matter. It isn't happy. The roots are fairly shaded and the head in the sun (west facing). Do you still water clems in the ground through the summer after years?   Some seem fine without "cossetting", as I would call it. The cirrhosa  is getting up my nose.

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    My C. cirrhosa Freckles always has a spell in the summer when it looks unhappy and sheds a proportion of its leaves all at once. I give it a dose of rose or clematis feed and couple of really good waterings and let it get on with it. It soon perks up and puts on an amazing display from autumn through until very late spring. After all, even evergreens have to shed some leaves sometime. 😊 

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





  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Mine has put on no display at all. It's there because I cannot be bothered to dig it up and pick all the dead bits out of the trellis. Bah.
  • Slow-wormSlow-worm Posts: 1,630
    Well I've only got Jingle Bells, two facing WNW and one facing N, they're all doing well (now I've realised they didn't have wilt and let them grow 🙄) so maybe they're getting too much sun?? 
    I never water mine except if it's been blazing hot for a couple of weeks, nor do I feed or compost.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited June 2022
    Fire said:
    Mine has put on no display at all. It's there because I cannot be bothered to dig it up and pick all the dead bits out of the trellis. Bah.
    Something's making it unhappy ... 🤔 perhaps it feels unloved  :'(

     ;) 

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





  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited June 2022
    It is unloved. :D 

    It's probably planted too close to a rose and despite manure and mulch it wants more moisture. Other clems seem fine. I will shovel prune at some point.
  • Slow-wormSlow-worm Posts: 1,630
    "Shove prune", ah the old penniless fairground game.. 
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