Clematis: Clematis planting guide?, 1 by ClematisGuru

ClematisGuru wrote:
i can not comment on when to plant waaaay up north. my new clems have been in ground for weeks to a month for some.
however, if they are hardened off and outdoors already in pots, planting now couldn't hurt, might be better for them (ground warner than pot )if they were grown in doors and are not fully hardened off ...that's where the local knowledge would have to prevail..
it is has been a pretty but cool spring here, i heard we are having weather in the 30's tonight or tomorrow night, and daytime 60's. good gardening weather and sleeping weather for sure.

ceedub, those spurts and collapses are not that uncommon. just cut back and it will come back.i had a bees jubilee collapse yesterday after nice early growth and 2 blooms...it has been in ground for a couple of years. on the whole i have had less collapse this year. i am doing preventative earwig and slug control however. some early collapse is slugs stripping off layers of lower vine and that causes the vine to collapse. check the bottom of the vines for strippy looking grooves or even brown long verticle wounds. here is s ht form last week i posted elsewhere on the forum, showing the bottom of a vine with slug damage from the night before.