Clematis: Clematis chat - heading into winter, 5 by pirl

pirl wrote:
It is amazing what constant pinching can do for a clematis. Now is not too late to plant them if anyone out there has delayed. Just give them a LOT of mulch and don't forget one good drink of water.

I had layered a few strands of Liberation but it was in shade, hardly any direct sun at all except for maybe an hour in the very early morning. I expected not much would become of them and dug them up in the hopes I'd be wrong. I wasn't wrong. They were very scrawny. The Walmart self-watering pot to the rescue! Feeling only one (on the right in the first photo) would be of any value, I still potted up all of them. Right now they're all trying to push out leaves! I'm thrilled.

The initial layering was done 11/18/11 (photo #4) and by April I could tell they were growing (photo #5).

It's certainly worth a try for any you'd like to duplicate for free.