Clematis: Clematis chat - heading into winter, 1 by warriorswisdomkathy

warriorswisdomkathy wrote:
Robin....mulch your plant and put it where it can get winter sun (sunny side of the house or mulch good)...I lived in a zone 5 at 3500ft and it overwintered just fine but does die to the ground....am thinking it didn't make it thru the 2nd winter or I moved, (lol, can't remember)....

I had 1 here where I live now but at an altitude od 6800ft which is 45 miles west (and closer to the 'Rockies') of the other garden but is a zone 6a, (figure that one out, lol)...I didn't mulch the one here and didn't make it but I bought 3 this spring...Got it from a local Denver nursery, a small family owed nursery, they just take cuttings from their own plant and root them....was less than $3.00....Their perenns and annuals come in 12 packs for $3.29, small but the price is right...lol.

But pirl...lol, that's how we become experts......

pix: Veronica austriaca, a spring bloomer only but a beauty!