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Clematis Montana Grandiflora on an arch?

JoeXJoeX Posts: 1,783
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Hi all,

Am I being a tad optimistic putting this on a slender arch, as I know these try to grow very large?

I could possibly make another arch crossways to bear more weight...


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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,735
    edited April 2021
    " a tad optimistic" 
    Montana is way too vigorous for that.
    Devon.
  • FireFire Posts: 18,068
    "Am I being a tad optimistic putting this on a slender arch"

    Yes.
  • JoeXJoeX Posts: 1,783
    Hmm. I thought so.

    Can I get away with it for this spring/summer season, then move it in autumn to somewhere with more space to grow like against the front of the house?
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 14,606
    You would be better off planting it in a better place now.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 29,839
    Maybe Marble Arch would do so yes - plant it somewhere better now and plant it well - watering before, depth, soil improvement and watering and feeding afterwards.  Then it can get its feet down happily and you can give it the support it needs as it grows.  It will want to get to between 7 and 10 metres so train it well as it does grow.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
  • JoeXJoeX Posts: 1,783
    Okay, no love for bodging it this year. :)
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 86,925
    It won’t do anything much in its first year so there’s no point in planting it there now. 
    Either plant it somewhere where it can get established or grow it in in a large container until it can go in the ground. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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