Purple Clematis Close Up
by Peggy Franz
Title
Purple Clematis Close Up
Artist
Peggy Franz
Medium
Photograph - Photography/macro
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CLEMATISES are like chocolates....... Once you've had a few, you can't stop - you always want just one more. Luckily, they are good at fitting into crowded gardens because you can grow them in places where there's already something else.
You can plant three different sorts up through a tree or fair-sized shrub. The flowers are bound to overlap, so I'd go for three with contrasting shapes - maybe one with rosette flowers, one wide-open single variety and one of the 'pixie-hat' type.You could grow a couple of the smaller clematises on a piece of trellis, up an obelisk in a border or through a wall Shrub.They're quite happy in a position where the roots are in shade and the fops are in sun. Before you plant a clematis, mix loads of organic matter into the soil and plant it so the rootball is 4-6m underground. Then give it a good mulch and feed every spring.Clematises are great for containers and that's the popular way to grow them. For tubs, the new compact varieties that grow 6-8ft tall and flower from June to September are brilliant.Since they will stand outside in winter, go for glazed ceramic or plastic tubs rather than terracotta, which might crack if it freezes,
Choose a 15-18in pot for one plant. Clematises like a rich compost, so use John Innes No 3 and add a moisture-retaining gel so it doesn't dry out too fast. Plant your clematis in the middle of the container with the rootball 2-3in under the surface and put in a 4-5ft-high cone-shaped hazel plant support or obelisk. Spread out the stems and tie them in -the new shoots will grip on for themselves.
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May 13th, 2013
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