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Clematis: Unrivaled Vining Beauty
This perennial vine is unrivaled in beauty and easy to grow. Here are a few tips for growing a healthy and vibrant clematis:
- Provide lots of sun. Clematis perform at their best when they get six hours of sun each day.
- Clematis prefer rich organic soil, amended with lots of compost. Their performance is hindered in clay or sandy soils.
- Provide mulch to keep the roots cool and moist, especially the first 2-3 years.
- Clematis love to climb! Plant next to a trellis, under a shrub, or along a fence.
Pruning Tips
Clematis fall into three categories depending on when they bloom. Check the tag on your clematis, and follow these instructions for pruning:
Spring Bloomers: Requires very little pruning. Only prune if the plant gets too high or untidy. If pruning is necessary, do it immediately after flowering, as flowers appear on previous years’ growth. Also remove dead and weak or unwanted stems. New shoots may need to be tied to the support.
Repeat Bloomers: Produces flowers on stems formed the previous year. The flowers appear on the growing tips of the strong new shoots, producing large single flowers. Remove any dead and weak stems back to a healthy pair of buds or shoots. Do not cut too low on the plant, leaving as much of the previous season’s framework as possible. Tidy up old leaf stalks, and immediately after pruning, space and tie into position in late February/early March.
Summer/Fall Bloomers: Remove all previous season’s growth down to approximately 2.5 feet from the ground in late February/early March. Cut just above a pair of buds to make way for as much new growth as possible.
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