Kassia: this post is from PudgyMudpies from August, 2006, regarding pruning:
[HYPERLINK@www.clematis.hull.ac.uk]
is a wonderful site. You can look up your clematis in the A-Z section, then when you find out the pruning group, click on the Pruning link and it will tell you how & when to prune for each group.
[HYPERLINK@clematis.org]
Is also a site I use, but I always start at the first link whenever I have to look something up.
Clematis, if you could pick just 2 what would they be?
The first one is WC's 'The President'. WC, your large one resembles Hagley but many look close to each other. Especially 'Another'.
I use the first link all the time. Why did it not come out as click-able, Pirl?
I don't know, Victor. Maybe because I copied it from a post?
I checked the Bayer link and here are the ingredients so Pixie wins the grand prize!
Active Ingredients:
Beta-cyfluthrin: 0.0015% Imidacloprid: 0.012%
Sizes and Labels:
502560A SIZE 16 oz
COVERAGE Makes up to 32 gallons of spray
VG your Niobe is Very Dramatic! I like it!... ☺
Thanks.
What prize? There's a prize? All joking aside ...everyone really needs to make sure your State allows it before using it, and I never checked with mine. Just figured if they sold here, we could use it. I'm a bad girl!!
That might explain the missing bunnies. Just kidding!!
Victor!
Oh your mean!!! No, saw them all the way up until the first part of Jan. when the Golden Eagle and Owl showed up!
Then one by one they disappeared.
I was just teasing! I like bunnies. I let them eat all the clover in my lawn they want.
kassia, you really need to prune your clems, especially since they are new. It will help them build stong root systems and improve branching. Don't be scared.:~) If you're not sure of the pruning group just clip them to 12-18 inches tall in the early spring. You'll lose some spring blooms but they will be better for it in the long haul.
I agree with Louise, Kassia.
Pixie - if they sell it in your state it's not restricted. Anything you can purchase in your state is permitted to be sold. We New Yorkers have several items that can't be purchased any more but we are allowed to use the remainder of what we have - a moral issue I guess.
Your prize? You get one additional birthday this year on the date of your choice.
I'll take the extra birthday if it is one that subtracts, not adds to my years! LOL
How 'bout just a half-year birthday celebration? We'll send chocolate.
ok, I will try to look which ones I have... 2 Elsa Spath - I Josephine that much I remember!
thanks for the links Victor... I will do my reading...
Venu I am so pathetic regarding pruning... I al so afraid I will kill the plant!
It was Pirl who posted the links, Kass, but I wholeheartedly endorse the first one. I got that one from Debbie at Silver Star. Clems are not that fragile nor demanding, Kass! Much less work than roses. By the way, do you have have any of the Oso Easy roses yet?
Did I already say that I like the pics of clematis?? I can't remember and don't have time to go through all of them again. Anyway they are all beautiful!! Eleanor
Thanks Eleanor!
Regarding Victor's question on Sweet Autumn reseeding. I don't think that I gave it much of a chance to. It was such an octopus and I had planted it on the side of my house and pretty near other flowers that needed some light and air. I was worried that it was going to take down my eaves with the weight so I kept clipping it back constantly. I only had it for 2 years before I sold the house. It was extremely aggressive.
All I've ever heard about Sweet Autumn was it's invasive tendencies.
I love my Sweet Autumn, it's growing into some oak trees, and in this area can't take over anything else, and is well behaved.
Polly, how far away can you smell it? That's why I was thinking of it, and if I could put it somewhere where it wouldn't bother - could I still smell it from my deck...
How far from your deck would you be planting it?
100 feet...
Nelly Moser, Crystal Fountain, and another...
I'm not sure, Debilu, but at 100' I don't think you'd get much of an aroma.
Your clematis plants are beautiful. I see you have the same 'Another' as Victor does. :-)
Can't beat 'Another'!
My "Another" was supposed to be Durandi, and 2 of the 3 were, but this one has different leaves.
In a box of five from BJ's (big box store) four were 'Duchess of Edinburgh' and the last one was actually Montana Grandiflora but it took a while to determine the identity so it was another 'Another' for two years.
Until the montana got humongous, I bet!
Thank heavens it was the one I put on the dog's fencing! I whack it back but it really wants to cover the world! I haven't even fed it in a long time but that doesn't stop it or even slow it down.
Monstrous!!!
Is that bigger than humongous??!
This is only one third of its width. By the end of fall it will be at least 24' wide. I'd consider a few of them for a living fence. They do not self-seed.
We cross posted, Victor. Yes, it is!
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Monstrous is bigger than humongous Victor - at least in Dawn's dictionary it is LOL
Deb, I have two Sweet Autumns. One east of my deck, one west of it. Each are about 50 feet from the deck. I can't smell them unless I'm right upon them. I was rather dissappointed.
I love that Montana.
Sounds like just what I need to overpower some honeysuckle that keeps invading a portion of my side fence. The neighbors let it grow to abandon; Last summer I covered it with tarp to control it after using every chemical I could get my hands on... to no avail. Its a 100' 4' chain link fence, I have it covered the last 10'. ☺
Get some Clethra and fragrant Viburnum - you will smell them everywhere in your garden.