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Thank you, thank you for all the detailed explanations and instructions. Mine is on an arbor, and the ends have climbed up into the adjacent fir tree where the only flowers appeared this year. I guess I have to experiment with pruning a bit at a time from the furthest out stems? There was a lot of flowering in late April (in Pacific NW) 20 ft from the thick 1" diameter base, but all the old area (4 main major stems) is brown crisp leaves and no flowers. I carefully pulled the 4 15ft-long stems down from the tree and coiled them up. Afraid to cut! Any advice on this situation?
Depends - do you want to just fix the issue and possibly miss out on more flowers this year? Or do you want a slower & more cautious, but way more tedious approach? If it's an old wood bloomer and it's already flowered this year, then you might not miss anything. If it's a new wood bloomer then there might be more on the way. The quick fix is to just cut the whole thing down, although I don't know what will happen if you hard prune it this time of year, so I don't think I'd actually recommend that. If you are ok with untangling knots (it sounds like you've already done that, so the hard part is actually over!) then you could try choosing one of the 4 main branches to hard prune and see how well it comes back. If it looks successful do it to the next one. But honestly, I would just wait until next fall or winter and hard prune the whole thing, like I did in this video.
It can be hard to prune a large plant, but sometimes it needs to be done. While it may not have flowered that summer, I am sure it flowered the next year and was much happier.
That's exactly right. It didn't flower this year, but it has every year since and it's been beautiful. Now we know that it's an old wood bloomer and we plan accordingly.
@@GardenUPLandscape I took the plunge and pruned mine back-it was massive and had been there for 15+ years with no pruning. Still waiting for leaves to bud out (I live in the great white north, so still need to wait 1-2 weeks), but it looks so much better.
I live in southern Canada, and my clematis (Type 2 and 3) already have a few inches of growth way up high.... do you think it's too late to prune it back?
From what I recall, pruning groups 2 & 3 both bloom on old wood, so spring is not the time to prune them at all, unless you aren't worried about flowers. You'll want to cut back excess growth right after the plant finishes blooming. No hard prune needed, just thinning.
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excellent information on clamatis for mine is difficult to understand to get flowers is challenging
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching!
Thank you, thank you for all the detailed explanations and instructions. Mine is on an arbor, and the ends have climbed up into the adjacent fir tree where the only flowers appeared this year. I guess I have to experiment with pruning a bit at a time from the furthest out stems? There was a lot of flowering in late April (in Pacific NW) 20 ft from the thick 1" diameter base, but all the old area (4 main major stems) is brown crisp leaves and no flowers. I carefully pulled the 4 15ft-long stems down from the tree and coiled them up. Afraid to cut! Any advice on this situation?
Depends - do you want to just fix the issue and possibly miss out on more flowers this year? Or do you want a slower & more cautious, but way more tedious approach? If it's an old wood bloomer and it's already flowered this year, then you might not miss anything. If it's a new wood bloomer then there might be more on the way.
The quick fix is to just cut the whole thing down, although I don't know what will happen if you hard prune it this time of year, so I don't think I'd actually recommend that. If you are ok with untangling knots (it sounds like you've already done that, so the hard part is actually over!) then you could try choosing one of the 4 main branches to hard prune and see how well it comes back. If it looks successful do it to the next one.
But honestly, I would just wait until next fall or winter and hard prune the whole thing, like I did in this video.
It can be hard to prune a large plant, but sometimes it needs to be done. While it may not have flowered that summer, I am sure it flowered the next year and was much happier.
That's exactly right. It didn't flower this year, but it has every year since and it's been beautiful. Now we know that it's an old wood bloomer and we plan accordingly.
@@GardenUPLandscape I took the plunge and pruned mine back-it was massive and had been there for 15+ years with no pruning. Still waiting for leaves to bud out (I live in the great white north, so still need to wait 1-2 weeks), but it looks so much better.
I live in southern Canada, and my clematis (Type 2 and 3) already have a few inches of growth way up high.... do you think it's too late to prune it back?
From what I recall, pruning groups 2 & 3 both bloom on old wood, so spring is not the time to prune them at all, unless you aren't worried about flowers. You'll want to cut back excess growth right after the plant finishes blooming. No hard prune needed, just thinning.
3 types of clematis