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clematis planting
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from Tony Morgan contains these words: In message , Paul Kelly writes Why are you challenging what has long been "best advice" for planting clematis? Clearly you do not bury all the mature stem but the site advice: Plant deeper than the original container - not necessarily 2 or 3 inches deeper, but as much as it takes to get at least one other set of leaf nodes below the ground. We have done this since the plant was a cutting, and it has been potted on at least three times since then. Do it once more! is sound. Then I'm afraid we must agree to disagree. I've been growing clematis for 47 years, I can assure you that if you plant a set of leaf nodes below the surface and you have a wet spell within a week or so, then you can expect to get rot and lose the plant - not necessarily but there's a good possibly.. I've always planted clematis deep for the same reasons Rachel has given, and find they do very well; even though they invariably have a wet spell soon after planting. I live in the extremely wet west of Scotland; rainfall at least 70" pa and rising. Janet. |
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