Hostafan, a good full size viticella clematis, 2 year old in a 2 litre deep pot, ( not the diddy Morrisons stuff ) is best planted 4 to 6 inches deeper than it is in the pot.
Regular hard pruning will encourage more stems to shoot from below ground, these will then produce more flowers, that's what we want.
Richard Hobson: Redwing, you say you had a couple keel over with wilt.
Clematis wilt is very rare and it is not a killer, the plants would have regrown from the roots.
Well, it was a long time ago....they didn't regrow and maybe I planted them in a bad place which was certainly in clay....anyway it's in the past and I am finally brave enough to try again. We shall see, as I say, fingers crossed.
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I find that clematis need a couple of years to get their feet settled before they take off. Sometimes they fail and disappear but most pop up again after a year or two - after I've binned the labels and forgotten what they were!
I've always planted deep but I'm finding that some clems are just more sensitive to winter cold than others so now I buy them from a pair of brothers who have a nursery about an hour away from here and they advise me on suitable varieties and also label most of their selection with degrees of frost they can take. I no longer buy any that can't cope with -25C.
As long as they get a good, deep root run I find clematis don't care about being planted in full sun or full shade but they do need to be planted with the aspect that suits them best. Some like full sun. Some like shade. Lots of plants are like that - roses, hardy geraniums, Japanese maples......
You just need to get the right plant for the right place and that's easy with google and forums like this.
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I find that clematis need a couple of years to get their feet settled before they take off. Sometimes they fail and disappear but most pop up again after a year or two - after I've binned the labels and forgotten what they were!
I've always planted deep but I'm finding that some clems are just more sensitive to winter cold than others so now I buy them from a pair of brothers who have a nursery about an hour away from here and they advise me on suitable varieties and also label most of their selection with degrees of frost they can take. I no longer buy any that can't cope with -25C.
As long as they get a good, deep root run I find clematis don't care about being planted in full sun or full shade but they do need to be planted with the aspect that suits them best. Some like full sun. Some like shade. Lots of plants are like that - roses, hardy geraniums, Japanese maples......
You just need to get the right plant for the right place and that's easy with google and forums like this.
Perfect advice. I dito this as my basic survival guide for clematis (except my winters are milder). I had a single Jackmannii back in the day and now own a lot more. It's a bit of a holic-thing
Hostafan, a good full size viticella clematis, 2 year old in a 2 litre deep pot, ( not the diddy Morrisons stuff ) is best planted 4 to 6 inches deeper than it is in the pot.
Regular hard pruning will encourage more stems to shoot from below ground, these will then produce more flowers, that's what we want.
So glad I'm not the only one who planted most of my clematis deep, regardless of group mine was simple misunderstanding though, but at least I don't have to dig them all up
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Hostafan, a good full size viticella clematis, 2 year old in a 2 litre deep pot, ( not the diddy Morrisons stuff ) is best planted 4 to 6 inches deeper than it is in the pot.
Regular hard pruning will encourage more stems to shoot from below ground, these will then produce more flowers, that's what we want.
No I couldn't Richard - I don't know enough about clematis. You might have 100s in your collection - I have none.
I made a comment in ignorance .........I won't bother again. Please forgive me for bothering you.
Richard Hobson: Redwing, you say you had a couple keel over with wilt.
Clematis wilt is very rare and it is not a killer, the plants would have regrown from the roots.
Well, it was a long time ago....they didn't regrow and maybe I planted them in a bad place which was certainly in clay....anyway it's in the past and I am finally brave enough to try again. We shall see, as I say, fingers crossed.
(Sorry, I haven't been able to work out the quote function on this site.)
I've sent you a PM Jinxy
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Jinxy, no need to apologise, sorry if I get a bit uptight when talking about clematis, I am just trying to help, as people have helped me in the past.
I hope we are all still mates.
I find that clematis need a couple of years to get their feet settled before they take off. Sometimes they fail and disappear but most pop up again after a year or two - after I've binned the labels and forgotten what they were!
I've always planted deep but I'm finding that some clems are just more sensitive to winter cold than others so now I buy them from a pair of brothers who have a nursery about an hour away from here and they advise me on suitable varieties and also label most of their selection with degrees of frost they can take. I no longer buy any that can't cope with -25C.
As long as they get a good, deep root run I find clematis don't care about being planted in full sun or full shade but they do need to be planted with the aspect that suits them best. Some like full sun. Some like shade. Lots of plants are like that - roses, hardy geraniums, Japanese maples......
You just need to get the right plant for the right place and that's easy with google and forums like this.
Thanks obelixx
Perfect advice. I dito this as my basic survival guide for clematis (except my winters are milder). I had a single Jackmannii back in the day and now own a lot more. It's a bit of a holic-thing
So glad I'm not the only one who planted most of my clematis deep, regardless of group
mine was simple misunderstanding though, but at least I don't have to dig them all up 
I was away for the weekend, OH forgot to record GW
You can watch it on BBCiplayer Busy-Lizzie
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b074c13t/gardeners-world-2016-episode-3