Q. That’s what I was thinking when you were saying this, and because you have such a large collection. And then we go all the way up into November, with a few of them covering many of those months. I think that what you are doing — pulling it out/digging it out — is the tedious answer. Q. Your email address will not be published. How many clematis do you have in your collection at last count? Even up North, they can start in April. I have a purple common clematis – each winter the rabbits eat the vine at the bottom. Q. Oh, my goodness. Q. I think I haven’t really been thinking about how much drier and generally warmer things have been here. I just planted an Avant-garde evipo033 in my Douglaton NY garden. Hi my name is ashley. He named it for one of his daughters. [Laughter.]. No way to help the plant if it gets gnawed year after year. There is a really wide range of genetics in there, so they’re often divided within the early, middle and late large-flowered hybrids. It’s called ‘Lime Close,’ and it’s now this massive shrub-sized thing. So I was going through, and when I found some that I do already grow and have big, old plants of, I realized I don’t think I am getting the most out of them. It just gripes me that I can’t get Rebecca to perform right. I don’t have an answer — everyone is all about the ‘Lime Close” that was recently renamed ‘Serious Black’ with the purple leaves. This is probably a problem for gardeners everywhere, who are used to responding to seasonal signals and the signals have changed. In the wild, growing up a big plant like a rhododendron provides both the sun up top and the shade down below. Listen locally in the Hudson Valley (NY)-Berkshires (MA)-Litchfield Hills (CT) Mondays at 8:30 AM Eastern, rerun at 8:30 Saturdays. Hi, Belinda. Zone 7. Those are some fun vines you’re growing, Krish. I could do better with them in my garden. Right, and they are called the large-flowered hybrids, and they are late spring into early summer. Even beyond just choosing varieties: I was looking through your catalog online, and I was wondering what I could do to extend my season. Q. Oh, my goodness. Welcome to hm your shopping destination for fashion online. : ). Q. They are going to be fine, and actually will enjoy that water and fertilizer. How to control those nasty things??? how to prune clematis, with dan long, pairing clematis with proper partners, with linda beutler of rogerson clematis collection, extend your clematis bloom season to spring through fall, with dan long, https://robinhoodradioondemand.com/podcast-player/381/a-way-to-garden-with-margaret-roach-april-3-dan-long-on-clematis.mp3, Vines off the trellis: creative use of climbers, margaret’s may and june 2017 garden events, tree peonies, with jeff jabco of scott arboretum, desert island shrubs: trying to name our favorites, with ken druse, battling mice and voles (but never with mothballs), comfort books: cozy reads for you or for gifting, with katrina kenison, fighting weeds: an all-season approach, with mt. Love vines! I have tried growing various clematis over the years and have not been very successful and lost several. The roots run deep, so they’re not going to perish—but they won’t perform. – Frequent wilt, for which I have no explanation. Good, steady fertility is important, and a lot of time the ground dries out in the summer. Donahue’s Clematis is the top clematis propagator in the nation. My favorite long blooming large white flower Clematis is Lanuginosa ‘Candida’. They don?t like hot summers; most of them don?t live very long here. So what follows is an easier approach. If we want to keep extending past the early Sugar Sweet types, and past the large-flowered hybrids, and maybe with a little more ease of growing the viticellas…, A. Any thoughts/solutions would be welcome – it is so discouraging to watch the thing flourish and then, all of a sudden just collapse! Perfect timing as usual! I have one area where there is a big hedge of evergreens, and I thought it would look great to have towers of vines set off against the evergreens late in the season. A. Those are two of the new ones that are very exciting: ?Sugar Sweet Blue? That makes sense. It’s a scrambler that you can use as a groundcover, and you can put one in the perennial border. So with the idea that we will stretch the season and move through the progression, what are some of the ones that we can stretch the season with, back into early, early spring? I will try watering and fertilizer but do you have any thoughts – how to help it along. [Laughter.] How do I get rid of all the sweet august clematis ( I did not know it was in the invasive group) we bought a home that had a great garden but a bit overgrown and I liked it when I first saw it! And that will help; continuing to feed will help. So you are talking like nine months or so of Clematis potentially for you where you are. Grows easily from seed in case one looses parent plant. Thanks! But they are all what we would call late spring. Integrifolia is a herbaceous perennial, not a climber. First and foremost: Construct a hardware-cloth cage or some other kind of serious protection for the base of the plant, right? [Below, a macropetala called ‘Lagoon,’ and a montana called ‘Natalie Cottrell.’]. Then you get into the alpinas and montanas, and the macropetalas—all very early blooming Type 1 species and hybrids. Let’s go through the rest of the bloom sequence first, then double back to those—because I think those have more potential than I am aware of. We have some that have already bloomed in March—like the new Sugar Sweet hybrids, and the montana types, though we are really at the hot end for growing most montanas. Keeping track of which cultivar should be pruned in which way can be confusing. Our actions count, and they add up to counteract a fragmented landscape and other challenges to the survival of so many critically important native creatures and the greater environment we all share. It was a lace where snakes hung out.. I have this same clematis but the bugs eat the blooms leaving them a holey mess. A. I’ve become a really big fan of drip irrigation. I garden in Sumner, WA not far from Seattle. Rose fertilizers in general tend to have a good formula for Clematis. On all my fruit trees I made cylinders of hardware cloth (heavy mesh) to prevent that. Great episode! Q. I think for many people those are what’s synonymous with Clematis; they look the most familiar. A. The only thing I would say is I don’t know how to prop it up any more, it’s so big. Or play the April 3, 2017 show right here. The first would be the viticella hybrids, and they don’t have as massive a flower each. cuba’s duncan himmelman, seedlinked: a new way to shop for, learn about and evaluate seeds, with bjorn bergman, time to feed–and count–the birds: project feederwatch, with cornell’s emma greig, gifts for gardeners: my tried-and-true gear, baked pears for breakfast, or maybe dessert, hot (and cold) garden glimpses as fall abruptly winds down, https://robinhoodradioondemand.com/podcast-player/13051/doug-tallamy-on-natures-best-hope-a-way-to-garden-with-margaret-roach-february-10-2020.mp3.
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