Clematis: First Year Clematis Care, 0 by mstish

mstish wrote:
Make sure that their roots are not in the sun. I have used all sorts of things including bamboo, towels, plastic lattice and broken pottery to shade them until my low growing stuff comes in and does the job.
The are not heavy plants like wisteria so you don't need a heavy duty trellace for them. I have some growing up chicken wire, some up plastic netting and some on wooden arbors. One is growing up an old fish net I draped over a low limb
Once you plant them give them a dose of miracle grows in water.

I have found that climbing yellow dicentra is a great shade vine. It is very pretty and easy to grow. Here in the Pacific NW it dies back every year but comes back every spring.

Niobe in the morning.

This message was edited Jan 25, 2011 3:49 AM