My Clematis Armandii has lots of large green buds on it at the moment.
Are these flowering buds or are they just where it is about to start
growing more shoots ?

The reason I ask is that this has never really flowered much before so
as it's an early flowerer I was hoping they were flowering buds.

Cheers

Colin

I didn't get any answers on this , anyone ??

colin, i'm by no means any expert, but i know armandi flowers on last years stems so the new buds must contain this years flowers. u might get some levaes first, i don't know, but the flowers will almost certainly comes from these buds in early spring