big and beautiful (Clematis)

Member Name: barbie84

Product:	Clematis
Date:	12/03/08 (213 review reads)
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Advantages: big beautiful plant

Disadvantages: need support

Clematis is a climing plant so it will need to be planted next to a wall or fencing and if not you will need to provide trelis for support as they tend to droop and fall over else. They only have shallow roots and can easily be riped from the ground in bad winds.

Clematis plants have lovely green leaves and great big beautiful flowers with a circular center and 8 petals around the edges.

They grow quite big and if not pruned back down to size they can get to about 10 foot tall and 6 foot wide, when they bloom they look beautiful, covered all over in single flowers and clumps of flowers, i have got two blue ones in my garden.

They flower from the begining of april untill the end of september, they need a lot of direct sunlight which can make finding the prfect spot by a fence or wall a problem as it is likely to shade the light. To solve this i have put mine in two circles i have cut out in the grass and put two pieces of trelis on posts 6 foot tall. It did look a bit weird when i first put them in 4 years ago as i had a lot of trelis showing as the plant was so small but after the first two years i havent seen the trelis since and it stops them getting knocked over in bad wind.

I prune mine back to the size of my trelis each winter which is 6 foot high and 3 foot wide but they have gone wild again by the mid summer.

They are a realy beautiful plant but you do need to think carefully about where you are going to put them.

Summary: a great plant if you can find the right place