"Kay" wrote in message
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Resisted the urge to buy a clematis and have it die within a few months
this
time. Seems new clematis just wont take in my garden wherever planted.

What happens to them? I have the same problem, and in my case the cause
is slugs - they chew though stems lowish down, so the whole stem wilts,
and they take new growth as soon as it appears. So the overall effect is
apparently mysterious death of healthy plant.

I've found 1) it's just about possible to get them established if you
grow them in a pot for a few years until you have woody main stems 2)
they are remarkably resilient, and if you dig the roots up and plant in
a pot, the thing will come up again. I've just retrieved one that I last
saw in the garden 3 years ago.

That could be it, I had put itdown to clematis wilt on the grounds they
wilted but I suppose if the stem was mostly eaten through it would look the
same. I have a few established clematis (clematii?) but new ones are v
difficult to keep going more than a few months.

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