Pruning Group 3 and Group 2 Clematis where the first buds are pretty high up

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• Pink678 Posts: 498

  17 February edited 17 February

  That makes a lot of sense @Fairygirl, I will bear all that in mind. So really I can just leave that Group 2 now, if I am understanding right. Thinking about it, last year I pruned the Group 2 quite a lot in spring, which might have caused the poor show of flowers I got last year. I now realise I shouldn't have done that, oops. Let's hope this year will be better ...
  

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• richardhodson Posts: 36

  17 February

  SALLY is not Group 3, it is Group 2.

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• richardhodson Posts: 36

  17 February

  https://clematisdatabase.org/new-clemdetail.cfm?dbkey=3926
  

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• Pink678 Posts: 498

  17 February

  Oh gosh @richardhodson thank you for that! I need to rethink then.
  

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• richardhodson Posts: 36

  17 February

  I do not think that your first 2 pictures are clematis Sally as it is described as 1 to 1.5 metres
  
  

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• richardhodson Posts: 36

  17 February edited 17 February

  There is a montana called SALLY, are you sure your plant is not that ?  It looks very vigorous.
  
  

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• Pink678 Posts: 498

  17 February edited 17 February

  I think I originally thought it was a Sally Evipo 077 because I found a label for it, which I thought belonged to that plant. It does look like one in terms of the pink flowers. Hmm you have got me thinking now ...
  

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• Pink678 Posts: 498

  17 February

  I don't think it's montana Sally, as the montana's petal shape does not match up with mine.
  

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• Pink678 Posts: 498

  17 February

  I found a picture I took of mine in flower:

  
  

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• Fire Posts: 19,096

  17 February

  Richard is a clematis expert
  

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