iam sorry to ask again,but fairy girl do you mean right down to the first 2 buds,or the buds,on the end,its climbing,over a arch.sorry to be a pain,iam not to clever with clematis,they never flowered last summer,just grew well,
Prune them quite far down Caroline - otherwise you get the flowers too high - as you've discovered! If they flower before June you can leave them and when the first flush of flowers is over, you can tidy them back and you get a second flush. Those are group 2 clematis, but if you don't know which kind you have, prune them back fairly low and then make a note of how they flower for you.
Mine are all pruned to around 2 feet - I don't go down further (although you can) in case the weather turns. Then I have backup. They have other planting at their feet anyway. Etoile Violette is pruned right down to about a foot - it flowers in later summer into autumn
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
If you love Niobe, try C. Rebecca, the colour stunning. Viticella Black Prince is another fave of mine.
I already have Rebecca and the Viticella Black Prince and I concur
nipped to B&Q for Levington's compost after dropping my son off at the station, they've got their spring plants in so a Clematis Constance fell in my trolley
Planted my new cordiline when I got back, so excited about this plant as I've been desperate for a second one for ages and have had the perfect spot for it for quite a few years. Trouble is I could never find one that was a decent size until yesterday, overgrown and half price from the garden centre's chuck it out section, proving it's hardiness in their exposed conditions.
It's only a regular Cordiline, but you know when you've always wanted one in a perfect spot...happly bunny now
I had very few before last year, now they are my guilty pleasure Rebecca is probably my favourite because of the colour although she's expensive but definitely a go-er
She lives in a sheltered little corner near the gate. I had to cut her back a bit last year as I'd just plonked her in when I got her. She'd been languishing a bit tied to a cane in a pot for some time at the nursery. Too tricky to unwind at the time. She looks quite happy now though. I particularly love the seed heads. I adore clematis - would love to have more but I need to hang fire
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I saw Rebecca at the Malvern Spring Show last year, but I couldn't take plants back to France on Ryanair. I've searched for it when we went by car and I've searched here in France. No luck
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Decided to chop up my stick/dead stems pile today and sprinkle the bits around the garden. It's still 6 weeks til the first garden bin collection and I filled it ages ago
Got about 2 1/2 trugs of bits distributed before developing snippers hand. Stick pile is diminished and no longer sat on top of my dogwoods
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thanks fairy girl.
peas planted out verdun,thats good,sun is out,watching hubby paint shed,is funny,lolmaking coffee,then out to cut grass.
iam sorry to ask again,but fairy girl do you mean right down to the first 2 buds,or the buds,on the end,its climbing,over a arch.sorry to be a pain,iam not to clever with clematis,they never flowered last summer,just grew well,
Prune them quite far down Caroline - otherwise you get the flowers too high - as you've discovered! If they flower before June you can leave them and when the first flush of flowers is over, you can tidy them back and you get a second flush. Those are group 2 clematis, but if you don't know which kind you have, prune them back fairly low and then make a note of how they flower for you.
Mine are all pruned to around 2 feet - I don't go down further (although you can) in case the weather turns. Then I have backup. They have other planting at their feet anyway. Etoile Violette is pruned right down to about a foot - it flowers in later summer into autumn
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
thanks a lot fairy girl,i will do that,and iam making notes to day,of the plants i have in the garden.thanks.
I already have Rebecca and the Viticella Black Prince
and I concur
nipped to B&Q for Levington's compost after dropping my son off at the station, they've got their spring plants in so a Clematis Constance fell in my trolley
Planted my new cordiline when I got back, so excited about this plant as I've been desperate for a second one for ages and have had the perfect spot for it for quite a few years. Trouble is I could never find one that was a decent size until yesterday, overgrown and half price from the garden centre's chuck it out section, proving it's hardiness in their exposed conditions.
It's only a regular Cordiline, but you know when you've always wanted one in a perfect spot...happly bunny now
I buy my clematis from a nursery in Surrey and I reckon I've bought about 6 Black Prince as so many saw it in my garden and asked me to get them one.
Heading up there in Spring to buy more stuff.
Exciting
I had very few before last year, now they are my guilty pleasure
Rebecca is probably my favourite because of the colour although she's expensive but definitely a go-er
Just been tidying Constance here W'song
She lives in a sheltered little corner near the gate. I had to cut her back a bit last year as I'd just plonked her in when I got her. She'd been languishing a bit tied to a cane in a pot for some time at the nursery. Too tricky to unwind at the time. She looks quite happy now though. I particularly love the seed heads. I adore clematis - would love to have more but I need to hang fire
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I saw Rebecca at the Malvern Spring Show last year, but I couldn't take plants back to France on Ryanair. I've searched for it when we went by car and I've searched here in France. No luck
Decided to chop up my stick/dead stems pile today and sprinkle the bits around the garden. It's still 6 weeks til the first garden bin collection and I filled it ages ago
Got about 2 1/2 trugs of bits distributed before developing snippers hand. Stick pile is diminished and no longer sat on top of my dogwoods
