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Clematis For Year Round Colour In Your Garden
Clematis are a superb addition to a cottage garden because they extend the amount and range of colour throughout the year and provide height in borders by being grown on obelisks and through shrubs, trees, and roses. Many people think of clematis as those large...
Clematis For Winter Flowering In The UK
In my garden in Northwest England the presence of clematis in flower begins to decline towards the end of October. However, there are clematis that flower in winter and they come from the Cirrhosa Group which is mainly found in the Balearics, Corsica, and Sardinia....
Early Spring Flowering Clematis For Your Garden
The range of plants we call “clematis” is very extensive and, for ease of identification and description, botanists have divided them into groups or “subgenus”. Two main groups dominate the early spring in the UK, armandii and atragene. Armandii Armandii come from...
Pruning Clematis
Not grown Clematis successfully before? Then follow these simple guidelines in this series.Early flowering clematis (pruning group 1) “Ne’er cast a clout till May be out” is a well-known phrase although the meaning of the word ”May” is disputed. Some believe that it...