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Clematis cirrhosa Jingle Bells leave turning brown

mmsj496mmsj496 Posts: 70
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Hi

Can anyone tell me what is wrong with my Clematis cirrhosa Jingle Bells please.  The leaves are turning a bronze/brown colour around the edges.  Some leaves have gone crumbly around the edges too.  Not all leaves are affected though.  Image attached.

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  • bcpathomebcpathome Posts: 1,313
    Drought? Try giving it more water ,see if that helps 
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    My Clem. cirr. 'Freckles' has brown leaves and is losing a lot of them ... it usually looks a bit ropey at this time of year and always recovers ...  it's worse than usual. but  I've been pouring what water I can spare on the roots and crossing my fingers ... buckets full at a time so the roots get a soaking ... I think it'll recover ok. 

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





  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    I have a related one too, and it's looking terrible. It's about five years in but needs much more water than I can give it
  • bcpathomebcpathome Posts: 1,313
    Don’t worry rain is coming in immeasurable amounts come next Monday ……..I have a beach holiday booked in Norfolk. It always pours when we have a holiday / breakaway ,never fails .
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    We’ll look forward to it 😂 

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





  • bcpathomebcpathome Posts: 1,313
    Thanks ! My sister has already said she will buy new welly boots in preparation for me going on holiday ! 
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    bcpathome said:
    Don’t worry rain is coming in immeasurable amounts come next Monday ……..I have a beach holiday booked in Norfolk. It always pours when we have a holiday / breakaway ,never fails .

    Please come and holiday in London.
  • borgadrborgadr Posts: 718
    My jingle bells is doung the same, though more yellow than bronze. I have been watering it (occasional big drenching) but as @Fire suggested it's not enough.  Down here the soil is still like dust despite the couple of showers we've had lately.

    I'm not too worried, pretty confident it will recover if we get some rain in the autumn. 
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    My plant is utterly frustrating and I'm going to take it out. I keep saying that.
  • mmsj496mmsj496 Posts: 70
    Thanks everyone.  The drought theory does seem to make sense to me and I have been dousing it every day this past week.

    The UK most definitely needs rain and it does look like some might be on the way for us next week.

    In the meantime I will keep watering it and hope for the best.

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