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Stephen Williams2/1/04 10:56
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I'm wondering what *specific* problem the OP is finding with this
Clematis?
Is it that it just doesn't grow *at all*
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Thats the problem - starts to grow and then by spring has turned up its
toes....

Without further info that *sounds* like Clematis wilt. I can only suggest
you don't try any more Clematis in that particular area.

Could also be snails felling the new shoots - they nibble about half way
through then everything above wilts. Or they just gobble the entire
shoot.


By the way I garden in Worcestershire where we do have some frosts, but I
currently have a Pelargonium in flower in the same border as I was trying to
grow the Clematis, so the frosts haven't been that bad yet.


SOME frosts! I was at school in W. Malvern in the winter of '63.......
;-)

And the frosts in W Malvern as as nothing compared with the ones in the
valley below!
--
Kay Easton

Edward's earthworm page:
http://www.scarboro.demon.co.uk/edward/index.htm