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Should I re-position my Clematis "Ernest Markham"?
Mark A
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It appears I've foolishly planted my "Ernest Markham", against a northeastern wall as opposed to a southwestern one. It's only been planted a week or two...Will I be ok to move it over? It has a few buds on it, and a very sorrowful bloom (hence the need to possibly move it over!). Thanks!
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Anything that was bought in a pot and hasn't been planted for very long can easily be moved so long as you're not an accident prone lumbering giant who can play nursy with it all summer long.
My Ernest Markham s only just taking off in it's 3rd year, possibly in the wrong place I'm not sure but mainly in sun. Hope I get at least one flower.
Definitely you can move it after one week - it won't even realise until it feels the warm sunshine and will thank you with flowers
Ernest Markham will cope with sun or semi shade so it can stay where it is but also be moved if you want to.
The main thing is to plant it good and deep and enrich its soil as clems are very hungry, thirsty plants. Planting it about 4" deeper than it was in its pot helps keeps the roots cool, which they like, but also encourages extra flowering shoots to form.
Ernest Markham is a group 2 which means just a light prune after flowering in May/June and then it will produce a main crop of flowers in late summer. It's often easier to treat it as a group 3 and prune it back hard in March. Either way it needs a generous feed of proper clematis food every spring and occasional waterings with rose or tomato fertiliser until it starts flowering.