Clematis Care Tips. As with all plants, when living leaves, branches, and stems are removed from the plant, they lose nutrients. To counter this loss of nutrients and boost your clematis in spring ...

Here's my recipe for a healthy clematis, that will make them full, all the way to the ground: Clematis like the cool soil that shredded wood mulch provides. I would remove the rock mulch from the ...

Freshly planted clematis should have hardwood mulch around the surface of the plant to keep the soil cooler. For the best performance of the clematis, the pH should be between 6 and 7.5.

As the clematis vines begin new growth next May and are 6 to 12 inches high, pinch out the central growing tip of each emerging vine. Where there was one shoot, two will form.

Q. I need to move a large, purple-flowered clematis vine to another location in my landscape. What tips do you have? A. Moving a large clematis vine is a risky process – even riskier during the ...

Cottagecore charm is appealing, but without proper maintenance, those vines outside your house can damage your home.

Here’s PennLive garden writer George Weigel’s Plant Pick of the Week for this week: * What it is: Clematis is a popular and showy perennial twining vine, but its main Achilles’ heel is a wilt disease ...

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I have been an admirer of the clematis plant species since childhood. Having grown up in Victoria, there was no shortage of ...

Group 2 clematis are relatively forgiving, being able to bloom on both new and old stems, so a heavily pruned plant still typically grows well and continues to bloom the following year without issues.