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Spring Pruning Clematis, an easy visual lesson on how and where to clip with a free video. Give your clematis a fresh, clean start in Spring for the new season.
Spring pruning clematis is one of the first garden chores of the new season I get to do and it is so rewarding . Forgeneral growing information for clematis just get through HERE .
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Doing an early garden inspection to see what is emerge can reveal that your clematis is budding but looking rather messy with all the sometime bits still cling on .
greenback : This is a class 2 clematis ( pruning ) that flower on both old and newfangled wood .
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Time to give it demand some TLC . ( If you want to read how to completely refurbish an overgrown clematisCLICK HERE .
Get yourprunersand get to work . Start from the top and bring downwards . Much of it is quite brittle so take caution and be gentle . Here is a gracious fatty tissue bud erupting from the vine .
( this fussy method also works for pruning group 1 Clematis which typically bloom sooner than chemical group 2 . grouping 1 bloom on old wood only )
It has more vine above it but it is not actively mature and the side tendrils too are dry up .
I take myprunersand cut all that dried up stuff back . Sometimes I have to gently freestanding vines that are wrapping around each other .
I dispatch the drained leaves as well . It is looking tidier already but there is nothing to help keep it bind up to the trellis . This is where some strips of old pantyhose can come in ready to hand like I employ when tying up my climbing roses , I show them in this post . tick HERE
This is a good time to settle how you require to train your clematis and tie it up as you wish it to grow .
I just wrap up mine about the trellis . I may come up back in and decide to do a harder prune on one of the vines coming from the background .
When I search closely , I saw five main vine coming up from the root . The areas I know will blossom are much higher up the trellis . I can select one vine and resolve to cut it back to about 12 inch from the ground to advance blooms lower on the trellis . Since I have other flowers farm around my clematis base , that could be a barren since those bloom of youth may not be that visible .
This weak prune cleans up the clematis for bloom clip and present you a chance to really calculate closely and make certain all is healthy and effective to go . Before you recognize it your clematis will be filled with glorious blooms and be tidy too .
Here is the video and about halfway through I portion out another way ( easy ) to prune a group 2 clematis and at the end , it compares the two clematis , one pruned like I did in this post and the other is the alternate method that is even easier . You will be astonished at the comparison !
glad horticulture !
Hi, I’m Pamela
