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Originally Posted by Nick Maclaren[_3_]
My Boughton Bride seems to have given up the ghost, probably due
to waterlogging. The location is normally well-drained, but does
saturate in continual, heavy rain.
My Clematis flammula shoot has gone flop, so I have watered it,
but am not optimistic. It's not supposed to get wilt, but even
species clematis often get something very like wilt with me.
Unless it picks up pronto, I will treat it as wilt.
The same happened to my C. florida, which I have put back in a
pot - it has survived two bouts of 'wilt' but I wouldn't bet on
a third.
Mutter. Any ideas on the wilt-like problem?
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I used to think I was getting wilt on clematis - lengths of stem just flopping and keeling over. Then I realised it was snails having gnawed on the skin of the stem some distance below. Now I make sure I don't prune within 4-6 ft of the ground, so that everything up to that height is woody rather than green and tender. But I don't expect you get snail problems where you are.
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