Clematis Care Tips: Step-By-Step Gardening

Tips, Tricks

1. My experience is they are difficult and they bloom in the spring.
2. This is a great advice on how to properly take care of clematis! Knowing how to care this kind of plant is a big help to every gardener. But I would love to know how to prune clematis properly? Please give me some advice on it. Thank you!
3. I moved into a house that has two mature clematis. They have about six inch in diameter trunks next to the ground. They are planted next to the house where someone has put something down like plastic and then gravel on top so no weeds will grow. They have never been pruned that I know of and I have been here three years. The growth has just grown over the old for years and is becoming very unsightly. But not wanting to harm the plants I haven't done anything. Help?
4. I just planted one that someone gave me it was all roots I dont know what kind but I have one on the mail box already and my mail person hates me LOL...so I put this one it is the mid. of Oct. by a tree and tie it off if I dont like it I can always move it so my neighbors can look at it. LOL
5. I trim my mature clematis in the fall, but in the last two years I'm having a lot more growth, especially flower buds which don't have a flower when opened??