kay wrote...


The pruning groups are 1) early flowering clematis, mostly species and
small flowered varieties 2) mid-season flowerers, including most of the
big flowered ones 3) late season flowerers.

So you can deduce the pruning group by the time of flowering - so yours
would be group 1. As Janet says, you can get away without pruning.

Even if you don't prune, the plants will flower. It seems to me that the
main reason for pruning is to keep the flowers somewhere where you can
see them rather than on the tops of the trees.



Thanks. I've just found the estate agent's photo of this house taken
about a year ago and I can see the clematis in the photo but about half
as massive as it is today! So I think I will give it a prune this
weekend just to keep it under control. I've also noticed it's got little
baby versions coming out of the ground beneath it so it's obviously keen
to grow on.