Choosing Clematis.

Hi @Doghouse Riley, I would recommend growing Sieboldii in a pot, and bring in over winter, greenhouse, shed or garage.

DON'T allow the plant to get waterlogged while dormant.

Then in spring just chop off all the top growth to about 6 inches, then start to water and feed again in March or April when new growth appears.

I have tried growing outside over winter with no success, so I actually stopped growing Florida Sieboldii types, until my daughter in law said you never grow any large flower ones, so I picked a couple up from Tatton show a couple of years back, they were only small liners ones, didn't flower great last year hoping for a good display this year, they are putting on new growth so will be chopping back any time soon. Over the past 2 years I haven't lost a florida type doing this method over winter.

 

Our clematis arrived from Taylors today in a nice sturdy carton.



I'm quite pleased with these, all doing well. The two centre ones, Westerplatte and Starlight, were the two "cheapos" at a fiver each. I've removed the plastic and given them a drop of water. I'll keep then in the shed next to the window for a couple of weeks.





"Suzy" from Taylors enclosed a compliments slip and a catalogue of their whole range.
My wife looked through it earlier today, I've noticed some "ticks" against one or two, but she hasn't mentioned anything yet.

 

It didn't take long.

I've just had to order.

Koreana Amber



Markam's Pink



Piilu

 

Korean Amber was plant of the show at Chelsea show in 2016, it's a really good plant, no pruning just leave it should flower for you this year nice early flowering.

Markam's Pink, is exactly the same no pruning, I had Markam's pink in a previous garden, never failed

 

The last of our clematis arrived from Taylors today.




It's too wet to plant them out yet. I might do it tomorrow as it's warming up now.

We bought three of these from T&M a few years ago.






Each year, they tend to die off earlier than expected with the dreaded clematis wilt. So I cut them right down but leave a bit of the dead stalk showing to remind me where they were.


I checked today and all's well with the three. Each is showing this sort of growth.

(The hosepipe protects the low voltage electrical supply to one of our Japanese lanterns).






It always pay to leave well alone when you might think something is dead.