I put a clematis vine on an old bike under a giant pine tree in my shade garden. It grew but did not bloom until 4 yrs. later. But I waited because I wanted to see a vine wrap around my old antique bike. I was so happy.
Thanks for sharing! Yes, I must dig up the one yet and see if it will do better elsewhere, I think it gets way too much shade and is crowded out by other plants. I plant mine all deeply too and I failed to mentioned that is great advice to plant deeply so the wilt does not kill the roots too.
Thank you for all the details on growing Clematis. I live in 9B-10 Florida. I have found one cultivator that grows here. And it is on my list for 2025.
I'm up north only zone 3, though many clematis varieties thrive here as well! I LOVE 'Perle d'Azur', 'Ville de Lyon', 'Jackmanii Superba' 'Dorothy Walton', Warsaw Nike' 'Fairy Dust' 'Romantika' etc. As for doubles, ''Blue Light' and 'Kiri Te Kanawa' always bloom double on new wood, even if cut right to the ground in the spring. 'Pernille' and 'Super Nova' were both new to me this year and did fantastic, especially 'Pernille' it just bloomed it head off!
@@FlowerPatchFarmhouse I long avoided 'Blue Light' simply for somehow believing I would not like it, then this spring I received it as a substitution, OMGosh, the blooms are lovely and so long lasting! 'Super Nova' took awhile to grow on me, seemed rather like a 'Venosa Violacea' imposter, lol, though as the season progressed, those veined blooms of dark violet purple upon a crisp white background really won me over! 'Viva Polonia', the compact grower is a stunner, also I quite enjoy 'The Vagabond'. I think I shall be ordering up all too many clematis for spring! :)
Thank you for the informative video about Clematis. I just started on my collection. I usually let them grow into my apple trees as tall as they can. Live in zone 4 and was glad to hear and visit the Brushwood Nursery for the yellow Clematis. It will be on my purchase order for Spring. Thanks for the website.
Bummer, I have one on my front fence that did not bloom but is growing so vigorously. I will leave it be this year and see what it does next. I can't remember which one it is. I have been so hairbrained the past few years I have failed to keep track.
How should I prune it if I don’t know the variety. This is the second season for my clematis. Last summer it succumbed to a disease after only growing a couple feet. I cut it back at the end of summer last year. This year it vined about 10 feet but only gave me two blooms in late summer at the very top (and they didn’t look that great). I am in zone 6a in Massachusetts. I was going to leave it to see if it bloomed on old wood, but now that I think about it, it did give me two blooms in late summer after cutting in back the previous year- and the blooms were at the top (new growth). What do you recommend about pruning? (My problem might be something else and not the pruning). I really enjoy your videos- very informative!
Well, if it bloomed on new wood then it would be type 2 or 3 pruning group. Prune back half of it and leave half and see what happens in Spring. You can wait until late winter, early spring to do it if you prefer. Sometimes it takes them a few years to get established and bloom well. Thank you, I am so glad you find my videos informative. If you go to my blog and type in clematis in the search bar you will find the articles I have written on them and what I have experienced. www.flowerpatchfarmhouse.com/ Hope this helps!
I'm also in nor cal. Never heard it pronounced contrary to how you pronounce it, at least in person. Anyways, more clematis talk would be appreciated. I messed around with many cultivars where I used to work. Double bloom varieties seems to bloom single the first year due to lack of strong root establishment. You can go multiple years with single blooms if you neglect the root growth.
Thanks for the info, I did not know that about the root growth. I guess mine has established quite well swiftly as I would get doubles in the first year just not the first blooms. Good to know why.
@@FlowerPatchFarmhouse Yeah it's just an "energy" thing as they plants take a lot of work to produce. In production, I'd constantly be culling beautiful blooms/buds to make them focus on roots instead. Plants are really "smart" in reacting to what happens to them. In 1-gallon pots, I rarely ever saw double blooms before they got sold.
I sm on 8b in New Bern, NC....O just planted 6 new Clematis to add to my cottage garden. I gue6 I' not sure which category they fall on, so I'll just leave yhem and see what happens!
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😂😂I had to go look it up😂😂. Apparently clematis it’s the ‘a’ and ‘i’ that gives people trouble it has an ‘uh’ sound- Kleh-muh-tuhs. From web of American pronunciation. lol, Proven Winners has a TH-cam on it because it is apparently just one of those words like tomato. This is so funny because if I let spellcheck have its’ way we would have many other ways to say it. It was dreadful fighting spellcheck to quit changing what I typed. It’s a wonder we can communicate at all with spellcheck.😂 I do have 3 clematis-Sweet Autumn (3), Josephine (1) and maybe Poseidon Blvd. not sure and think a (1). Jo (MIL name) is new and is just getting started. The Sweet Autumn is older and never bloomed like it did when first planted. They die back to ground and it had not even reached 2’ this year. I’m thinking it’s struggling because the young oak tree is much bigger and robbing water, sun and maybe too acidic. Something is bugging it and I should move it. I do have it on the north side of open iron fence, but I just realized the coneflower are monstrous on the south side and that could be shading it too much. I usually keep the tags and not sure if I have Poseidon but it looks like that flower-just from local hardware store so? It only gets about 5’ and think it needs a prune they say after blooming to 18” as old wood gets tired after about 4 yrs. I use to have a beautiful double blue that I left at last house and should have took it with me because new owners took out everything. We started on remodel of greenhouse and chopped some vine off the American wisteria that also struggles. It shot straight up and leafed out and didn’t do anything else. Maybe I should chop it lower to get more leaders. It definitely isn’t invasive like the Asian variety I left at last house😂that was a monster. That oak tree I’m having a tuff time with. I have to make a Huge decision of possibly removing it while it’s still manageable to do so. It’s a shame but we have a ton of these oaks and this one is nice and straight. However, I look around at older ones and they are huge and another blocks early sun to veg garden And I despise looking at brown leaves all winter while they shade the house during winter. The leaves stay on and create a mess in spring. I have started another Autumn Blaze maple and planned on slowly pruning out oak, but maybe take it out and be done with it because it may affect the maples growth. The main issue is shade and time. The summers are hotter and we aren’t getting any younger, but those maples do grow pretty fast and I could set up a temporary gazebo although still not as much shade as the oak. Lol, if I was debating this in the heat of summer I would probably say “leave it”. Such a big decision. Thanks for tips! Your clematis are wonderful! It’s starting to get colder and struggling to get 50F and nights to upper 20s at times. Must get that heat sink dug in GH before soil freezes.
I know what you mean about decisions. I have a few Japanese Maples still in their containers and I don't want to commit to putting them in the ground as I change my mind often enough that I am afraid I would want to move them after a year or so in place. So potted trees they remain. I have such little space that I have to take into every consideration. There is an abundance of oak trees across the street from me in the forest that I have no trouble yanking up the ones that start in my garden spaces. These ones do lose their leaves in winter but I struggle to get sunshine in my garden at the best to times. Next year my Charlie Brown clematis should give me more blooms and I can rate how well that one does for me. I have to say it put out quite a few blooms this summer even though it was freshly planted, I was impressed.
@@FlowerPatchFarmhouseI just realized notifications were turned off and wondered why I didn’t see messages and only new posted vids. Hope I fixed it. Lol, then again on some maybe I don’t want their feedback 😂 Those Japanese Maples are very colorful and maybe someday I might try one. Right now the Flame Thrower redbud is a bright spot all summer and so far survived a whole year.
I put a clematis vine on an old bike under a giant pine tree in my shade garden. It grew but did not bloom until 4 yrs. later. But I waited because I wanted to see a vine wrap around my old antique bike. I was so happy.
How fun. I need to hunt down an old bike, I think that a very fun garden accent! I am glad it finally took off for you and bloomed.
One of my clematis had clematis wilt, but because I planted it deep, it came back from below and has been vigorous ever since. 👍
Thanks for sharing! Yes, I must dig up the one yet and see if it will do better elsewhere, I think it gets way too much shade and is crowded out by other plants. I plant mine all deeply too and I failed to mentioned that is great advice to plant deeply so the wilt does not kill the roots too.
Thank you for all the details on growing Clematis. I live in 9B-10 Florida. I have found one cultivator that grows here. And it is on my list for 2025.
Great, do let me know how it does for you. It is hard to find ones that will do well for in your zone.
I'm up north only zone 3, though many clematis varieties thrive here as well! I LOVE 'Perle d'Azur', 'Ville de Lyon', 'Jackmanii Superba' 'Dorothy Walton', Warsaw Nike' 'Fairy Dust' 'Romantika' etc. As for doubles, ''Blue Light' and 'Kiri Te Kanawa' always bloom double on new wood, even if cut right to the ground in the spring. 'Pernille' and 'Super Nova' were both new to me this year and did fantastic, especially 'Pernille' it just bloomed it head off!
Great to know, I have a few of those already on my 'wishlist' and I will be sure to look up the others. Thanks for the recommendations!
@@FlowerPatchFarmhouse I long avoided 'Blue Light' simply for somehow believing I would not like it, then this spring I received it as a substitution, OMGosh, the blooms are lovely and so long lasting! 'Super Nova' took awhile to grow on me, seemed rather like a 'Venosa Violacea' imposter, lol, though as the season progressed, those veined blooms of dark violet purple upon a crisp white background really won me over! 'Viva Polonia', the compact grower is a stunner, also I quite enjoy 'The Vagabond'. I think I shall be ordering up all too many clematis for spring! :)
Thank you for the informative video about Clematis. I just started on my collection. I usually let them grow into my apple trees as tall as they can. Live in zone 4 and was glad to hear and visit the Brushwood Nursery for the yellow Clematis. It will be on my purchase order for Spring. Thanks for the website.
You are so welcome!
Great info.
Thank you so much! I know it isn't complete but it is a start.
thanks for sharing, great info. i gave up on clematis i could never get them to bloom for me.
Bummer, I have one on my front fence that did not bloom but is growing so vigorously. I will leave it be this year and see what it does next. I can't remember which one it is. I have been so hairbrained the past few years I have failed to keep track.
How should I prune it if I don’t know the variety. This is the second season for my clematis. Last summer it succumbed to a disease after only growing a couple feet. I cut it back at the end of summer last year. This year it vined about 10 feet but only gave me two blooms in late summer at the very top (and they didn’t look that great). I am in zone 6a in Massachusetts. I was going to leave it to see if it bloomed on old wood, but now that I think about it, it did give me two blooms in late summer after cutting in back the previous year- and the blooms were at the top (new growth). What do you recommend about pruning? (My problem might be something else and not the pruning).
I really enjoy your videos- very informative!
Well, if it bloomed on new wood then it would be type 2 or 3 pruning group. Prune back half of it and leave half and see what happens in Spring. You can wait until late winter, early spring to do it if you prefer. Sometimes it takes them a few years to get established and bloom well. Thank you, I am so glad you find my videos informative. If you go to my blog and type in clematis in the search bar you will find the articles I have written on them and what I have experienced. www.flowerpatchfarmhouse.com/ Hope this helps!
Thank you!
I'm also in nor cal. Never heard it pronounced contrary to how you pronounce it, at least in person. Anyways, more clematis talk would be appreciated. I messed around with many cultivars where I used to work.
Double bloom varieties seems to bloom single the first year due to lack of strong root establishment. You can go multiple years with single blooms if you neglect the root growth.
Thanks for the info, I did not know that about the root growth. I guess mine has established quite well swiftly as I would get doubles in the first year just not the first blooms. Good to know why.
@@FlowerPatchFarmhouse Yeah it's just an "energy" thing as they plants take a lot of work to produce. In production, I'd constantly be culling beautiful blooms/buds to make them focus on roots instead. Plants are really "smart" in reacting to what happens to them. In 1-gallon pots, I rarely ever saw double blooms before they got sold.
I sm on 8b in New Bern, NC....O just planted 6 new Clematis to add to my cottage garden. I gue6 I' not sure which category they fall on, so I'll just leave yhem and see what happens!
If you know the name of them you can easily look up which pruning type they are to help.
Thanks!
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Sorry you are struggling with the sound but it must be on your end as everyone else seems to have had no issue.
Pam I have not been seeing your videos at all and I am so frustrated!!! I just unsubscribed and resubscribed and I hope that fixes it so I can see your videos when they come out. I even had "All" clicked. I don't know what is happening to TH-cam but you should know your subscribers may not be seeing any of your videos.
Thank you for letting me know, I have included a form in the description box so you can be informed directly by me rather than relying on TH-cam. Just fill it out and I will be sure and send out a personal notification each time I post a new video! No worries if you don't like getting personal emails you can unsubscribe at any time.
@@FlowerPatchFarmhouse Thank you Pam
@@katethegardener You are welcome, thank you again for letting me know. These little tip offs help me tremendously!😀
😂😂I had to go look it up😂😂. Apparently clematis it’s the ‘a’ and ‘i’ that gives people trouble it has an ‘uh’ sound-
Kleh-muh-tuhs. From web of American pronunciation. lol, Proven Winners has a TH-cam on it because it is apparently just one of those words like tomato.
This is so funny because if I let spellcheck have its’ way we would have many other ways to say it. It was dreadful fighting spellcheck to quit changing what I typed. It’s a wonder we can communicate at all with spellcheck.😂
I do have 3 clematis-Sweet Autumn (3), Josephine (1) and maybe Poseidon Blvd. not sure and think a (1). Jo (MIL name) is new and is just getting started. The Sweet Autumn is older and never bloomed like it did when first planted. They die back to ground and it had not even reached 2’ this year. I’m thinking it’s struggling because the young oak tree is much bigger and robbing water, sun and maybe too acidic. Something is bugging it and I should move it. I do have it on the north side of open iron fence, but I just realized the coneflower are monstrous on the south side and that could be shading it too much.
I usually keep the tags and not sure if I have Poseidon but it looks like that flower-just from local hardware store so? It only gets about 5’ and think it needs a prune they say after blooming to 18” as old wood gets tired after about 4 yrs. I use to have a beautiful double blue that I left at last house and should have took it with me because new owners took out everything.
We started on remodel of greenhouse and chopped some vine off the American wisteria that also struggles. It shot straight up and leafed out and didn’t do anything else. Maybe I should chop it lower to get more leaders. It definitely isn’t invasive like the Asian variety I left at last house😂that was a monster.
That oak tree I’m having a tuff time with. I have to make a Huge decision of possibly removing it while it’s still manageable to do so. It’s a shame but we have a ton of these oaks and this one is nice and straight. However, I look around at older ones and they are huge and another blocks early sun to veg garden And I despise looking at brown leaves all winter while they shade the house during winter. The leaves stay on and create a mess in spring. I have started another Autumn Blaze maple and planned on slowly pruning out oak, but maybe take it out and be done with it because it may affect the maples growth. The main issue is shade and time. The summers are hotter and we aren’t getting any younger, but those maples do grow pretty fast and I could set up a temporary gazebo although still not as much shade as the oak. Lol, if I was debating this in the heat of summer I would probably say “leave it”. Such a big decision.
Thanks for tips! Your clematis are wonderful! It’s starting to get colder and struggling to get 50F and nights to upper 20s at times. Must get that heat sink dug in GH before soil freezes.
I know what you mean about decisions. I have a few Japanese Maples still in their containers and I don't want to commit to putting them in the ground as I change my mind often enough that I am afraid I would want to move them after a year or so in place. So potted trees they remain. I have such little space that I have to take into every consideration. There is an abundance of oak trees across the street from me in the forest that I have no trouble yanking up the ones that start in my garden spaces. These ones do lose their leaves in winter but I struggle to get sunshine in my garden at the best to times. Next year my Charlie Brown clematis should give me more blooms and I can rate how well that one does for me. I have to say it put out quite a few blooms this summer even though it was freshly planted, I was impressed.
@@FlowerPatchFarmhouseI just realized notifications were turned off and wondered why I didn’t see messages and only new posted vids. Hope I fixed it. Lol, then again on some maybe I don’t want their feedback 😂
Those Japanese Maples are very colorful and maybe someday I might try one. Right now the Flame Thrower redbud is a bright spot all summer and so far survived a whole year.