Posted: 14/03/2013 at 22:40
Hi Yarrow 1+1
I planted over a dozen clematis last year and had mixed results, my best performers where the Tangutica's, esp the bill mackenzie & golden tiara varieties gorgeous yellow nodding bells and lanterns with lovely seed-heads, the best of the lot was my Nelly Mosser it just kept growing and producing flowers, but alas i grew that in my poly tunnel, see no reason why it wouldn't perform just as good outdoors if the weather was half decent, my polish spirit erm the jury's still out on that one, i planted it next to a chilean potato tree that decided to take off not only that i planted some sweet-peas in-front of it needless to say the combination of both kind of smotherd the polish spirit though i did peer through the tangled mess and the ps seems to have done reasonably well under the circumstances, my main mistake was planting clematis to close to one another, and i noticed the roots have come near the surface because of the way i waterd them, in future i will add a piece of pipe to get the water down to the roots to keep the roots deeper, i have a lot of repositioning to do come April when i cut them back, wonderboy i was advised by Taylor's clematis from whom i bought my plants from to cut back in April due to my climate which is the same as yarrow2's, i hear you on the itching to get out in the garden and do something yarrow i to pondered cutting mine back after seeing the new growth on the upper part of my clematis last week when we had some decent spring like weather, just mind we had frost first week in June last year, so patience really is a virtue for a Scottish gardener, besides the autumns have been much milder in recent years which can give us a longer growing season, my sweet peas were still producing blooms in November...Anyhoo's I'm rambling i'll try and post some pictures this summer if i can figure it out...
TC
Davie-S
