"Carol Russell" wrote in message
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I'm glad I'm not the only one that doesn't find it as easy as Mr T says it
is.

Carol, you can do hard woods in winter but take rates are usually low and C.
tangutica is not easy by this method and is most easily done by seed
(unless its a named form) taking green cuttings, the percentage take
increases the earlier you take them, I generally start in march and try and
finish by may, with clematis rooting is the easy bit, its getting the
resulting plants though the first winter thats tricky!!

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Charlie, gardening in Cornwall.
http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of National Plant Collection of Clematis viticella (cvs)