General Gardening Chat :: RE: Climber Care - Generally
General Gardening Chat :: RE: Climber Care - Generally
Author: Liza Subject: Thank you!Posted: 19 Mar '06 10:07 pm (GMT 12) Topic Replies: 9 Michael! I did love your advice, and especially your explanation, about WHY we have to cut back certain of the climbers you refer to. But concerning our large, LATE Spring/Summer flowering Clematis,they should be pruned so short during the first two years , which is by the end of Winter, and NOT in the end of their growing season. The others, late Summer/ Autumnal flowering Clematis( smaller flowers) , though --I have to add--- always need such severe pruning(: 50/60cm, f. ex. Madame Julia Correvon, Jackmanii Superba) during the same season (: end of Winter). I think, though, that the VERY early Spring flowering Clematis (Armandii?), do need to be pruned at the end of their growing season, like you say... And you are right! We can all always invent other ways of supporting the climbers we love , even if there is not any "proper" support, walls, fences, etc. For example:_________________"..So,perhaps, it is easiest, through awareness of flowers in particular, of their radiant beauty and purity, their vibrant colour, to come to the excellence of the One and be uplifted beyond thought to our divine selves".Dorothy Maclean