In article xyyHc.49212$%_6.32853@attbi_s01, "Pam - gardengal"
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"paghat" wrote in message
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While discussing clematis, has anyone had good luck getting Clematis
florida to perennialize? Someone gave me one as a gift last month & it is
cute as a button, a miniature clematis with leaves flowers the smallest
I've seen, but some of the literature doesn't make it sound particularly
easy to keep alive for any length of time.

-paghat the ratgirl

On several of the clematis groups I participate in, growing Clematis florida
is described as being no different than growing any other species and that
they are hardier than typically thought, but I have had no luck at all
getting these beauties to survive longer than one season. Even coddled in a
protected location they have consistantly not reappeared the following
spring.

If someone else has any tips, I'd like to hear them also. These are not the
easiest and least expensive clematis species to get hold of, either.

pam - gardengal

Thanks. I'll try my best with it then without getting my expectations high.

-paggers

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"Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher.
"Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature.
-from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers"
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