What does this mean? Where would you plant this type of clematis?
Upright or scrambling?
sprawlers are clematis that do not climb or attach themself to supports. examples are faul farges, jouinana praecox,
herbaceous clematis. some climbing clematis that do not attach themselves to the supports with petioles like to sprawl more than climb........you can see the nature of each type of clematis and work with it vs forcing it into a straight up trellis.
Niobe is right..clematis like the Integrifolias rarely have petioles that grab ahold and climb up..they are shorter varieties that are great to grow with bushes..as they scramble up through them..using them as a host to hold them up...the old vines are pruned even with the soil each late winter/early spring as they produce new vines from the soil each season...they bloom on the new vines grown for that year...Jeanne
I've purchased a 'Pastel Pink' Integifolia group clematis. I'm trying to figure out the best place to plant it. It will only grow 2-3 feet. Should I plant it near a bush and let it climb around the bush? If I plant it by itself will it need support?
plant it at the base of a clematis with a shorter plant in front of it that will provide the integrfolia some support. tiny shrubs will work that may have to be eventually moved as they get bigger....we have a nursery that sells a lot of 5 $ shrubs that are tiney and good for this. boxwood, barberry, spirea. when they start to take on too much size you can keep them pruned down or move them in to a proper hedge somewhere.
of course you can use a perennial support with a grid on it, but my integrefolias grow slowly it seems and in the first few years look bad in the grid support, so i like to have something there to support them that is more natural.
here is herbacoeus albaflora in the in side of a obelsisk with perrins pride on the outside of it.
forgot to attach the photo
Is there any reason you couldn't plant a rambler that stays short in a big hanging basket? Then sink the pot in the ground for the winter.
Debbie
i have heard of clematis in a hanging basket for one season. in my zone the basket in the ground wouldn't survive, but you can put them in the ground in the fall, or in your zone maybe they would survive! the main thing in the season in the basket would be to fertilize frequently like an annual and have it in partial sun only i think.