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FebruaryViolet
True Blue Farmgirl
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Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
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 Posted - Mar 22 2012 : 07:00:27 AM
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Last year, I posted a clematis question, and you ladies were so helpful (I asked why one of my plants was doing better than the other, the suggestion was to move it to a similar location and voila! It's growing like mad!)
This go round, I have a question about the "brown dead leaves and stems" The new growth comes off of some of these, but not all. If I remove the brown dead stuff, will I harm the plant and the new growth? Is there a time I'm suppose to do this or not do this at all?
It looks sortof...yuck. And I can't recall if I've ever seen any other clematis with the dead stuff still as well as the brand new growth and flowers.
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prariehawk
True Blue Farmgirl
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Cindy
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Posted - Mar 22 2012 : 3:43:29 PM
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I have a clematis vine that came with my house and I usually wait until there is some new growth and then I remove some of the dead stuff. I leave the part at the bottom alone. It comes back every year. as with any vine, it grows from the bottom up, so as long as you don't mess with that, it should do fine.
Cindy
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Miss Bee Haven
True Blue Farmgirl
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Janice
Louisville/Irvington
Kentucky
USA
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Posted - Mar 22 2012 : 4:00:25 PM
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I vote with Cindy. I'm usually a 'less is more' sort of pruner. Today, I noticed one of my new Clematis has not only lots of new leaves, but BLOOMS coming on already! What a weird spring! Just hope it keeps on like this and doesn't send us some nasty 'smack down' of cold at the last minute.
Farmgirl Sister #50
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rough start farmgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
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marianne
The Beautiful Pacific NW
Washington State
USA
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Posted - Mar 25 2012 : 01:37:00 AM
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Thanks for the info. Maybe mine will do a bit better this year. I think I have been a bit too ambitious pruning it.
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mickib
True Blue Farmgirl
267 Posts
Michele
Coeur d'Alene
Idaho
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Posted - Mar 27 2012 : 12:28:51 PM
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| My husband is the official clematis tender at our house. He just shakes all the dead leaves off. It seems to work. |
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kristin sherrill
True Blue Farmgirl
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kristin
chickamauga
ga
USA
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Posted - Mar 27 2012 : 12:31:59 PM
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Mine did not have dead brown leaves. I just went out yesterday and put a little section of fence for it to climb up on. My hubby always seems to weed whack the poor thing down every year. I have a wisteria growing at the other end of the little fence I have the clematis growing on. That should be really pretty. The wisteria is blue and the clematis is purple.
Kris
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Gingerskeeper
Farmgirl in Training
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Rebecca
Oswego
Illinois
USA
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Posted - Mar 28 2012 : 7:30:02 PM
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I wait until everything dies for the winter and then chop everything down to the ground. It grows like a weed, but it looks beautiful! It always comes back in the spring just as beautiful as the year before!
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Garden Gate: Clematis growers--need your help!!!! |
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Clematis growers--need your help!!!!
