In message , Tony Morgan
writes

In message , Rachel Sullivan
writes

Plant it well & add a pipe going down to the roots (fill it with
stones) so you can pour water straight down to where it's needed.

No doubt para 4 in the Planting directions help Barkers sell more
clematis plants :-)

In this, regardless of the smiley, you are implying that Rachel is
giving bad advice to sell more plants.

1. That is ludicrous in the extreme.
2. You will note that their web site has much information for people who
will *never* buy plants from them - Temp. Zone info for those in North
America and the rest of the world, outside of the E.U., for example.
3. Your comment above is offensive. Since you have now been offensive,
then I'll continue.

Unless you plant with a little of the brown section at the bottom of
the stem above ground, you can get disease or rot. Also cut the bottom
out of a 3" or 4" pot and place upside down to keep the sun away from
the roots.

Rachel has already answered these comments quite adequately - and I note
that you have yet to provide a single authoritative reference for your
position.

What we actually find is that this is not uncommon in your case. You are
quite fond of pontificating about subjects, to appear to others as if
you are expert in them, when in actual fact you aren't.

Remember back to Jan 2001 when you said in demon.homepages.authoring
that NT4 could only read NTFS, amongst other tripe. To refresh your
memory it was in article:

news:

since what you spouted in it was almost totally wrong, I posted:

news:

in which you were comprehensively destroyed and never posted a follow-up

It's there on Google Groups for all to see.

Of course, you might consider that Grandad has more experience with
clematis than any of us is likely to achieve if we live to be a 100,
since he's propagated and grown 10s if not 100s of thousands of the
bloody things. You also might consider that T.H. Barkers have got, and
they've read from cover to cover, every major and minor work on
clematis. You might also consider that Rachel herself is considered an
expert by some very qualified people - I can bore you with the detail,
but I won't.

You, of course, know better. Just like you knew better that NT4 couldn't
read a Fat16 file system. Bwahahaha!

I'm sure that the rest of us mere mortals sleep better at night knowing
that we don't have to live our lives with your attitude.
--
Tony - Rachel's partner
Who extends his apologies to the rest of the regular denizens of u.r.g
And knows bugger all about clematis - but a lot about Rachel, NT4 & Win2K