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Clematis jingle bells and blue wisley
jingle bells as moved earlier in he year, but now is growing strongly, a few flowers in late November, now nothing.
.is it becaus of the warm inter weather? What are other jingle bells doing in the rest of UK
wisley a prolific flowering blue clematis from June to early November has masses of new shoots, from base to 2 feet off the ground. Should I prune off the lot, thin them, or just leave be
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Jingle bells has probably flowered early as you rightly guessed. The wisley will slow down with the cooler weather. I'd leave it alone for now as there are indications of a return to the cold and frosty weather we have seen recently. I'd take another look at the wisley when spring arrives.
Wisley is a Late Large Flowered Group 3 and should be butchered to the floor on 14th February with all the other Group 3's.
The St. Valentines Day massacre.
Cripes, this sounds drastic, but I will do the bis on the clematis.
Wisley has masses of stunning, never ending beautiful blue/purple flowers all thro the summer and into early autumn. Well worth growing I think.
I have Prince Charles and Julia Correvon planted last year, same Valentine's Day treatment for them
Yes, Prince Charles is Late Large Flowered Group and Madame Julia Correvon is Viticella Group, both Group 3 for pruning.
Being fairly new to growing clematis , I was advised to grow the Viticella varieties as they are the easiest to grow.
i have the Julie Correvon growing through a yellow leaved choisia, which brightens up a corner of the garden
Madame Julia Correvon flowers earlier than most other viticellas, starting in June here in Lancashire. Sometimes if pruned back a few feet after flowering it will put on another flush of flowers.