@Songbird-1 Sorry if I misunderstood, and glad you found a replacement arch.
I grow mainly Group 3 clematis and try to cut off most of the summer's growth before the worst of the winter weather arrives, but Arwen was not forecast to affect this area so badly -- sadly it did. Clematis are so reliable though, they start again, as we must sometimes.
I have these listed below plus one forlorn, unidentified 4" high clem we inherited when we moved here. Loads of TLC and it has grown and flowered but remains anonymous.
Alba
Luxurians Astra Nova Blue ANgel/Blekitny Aniol Caerulea Luxurians Cirrhosa ?? (cutting from a friend) Crispa Huldine I Am Happy Jackmanii Purpurea Jan Fopma Lambton Park Maxima My Angel Piilu Princess Diana Silver Moon Star of India Tie Dye
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast. "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
I won't bore you with a full list, suffice to say I have a serious addiction and you are all enablers 🙂 I'm a big fan of the little £2 slips/liners from Morriston (I know others do them but I know they're looked after at my local momos). I did a count up the other day and I think I currently have 50ish, of which about 20 are sat in pots being grown on and theres a few that may not have survived the winter (or the drying out last summer when my boys were left in charge of them for 2 weeks). Like others my armandii is looking glorious, and my Macropetala and Pixie are just beginning to flower - here's pixie Picotee and westerplatte will probably be the next to flower, this is only picotee's 3rd year in the ground and its got about a dozen buds on it.
A few of my other favourites that I own; Samaritan Jo, Nubia Filigree Bijou Etoile Violette- a bit common, I know but utterly dependable Polish spirit - as above but what a thug! Yukikomachi Silver moon Piilu ‐ got dried out last year (it's on a west-facing windy porch step in a pot that also turns out to be in a rain shadow!) and has only managed one shoot so far Rooguchi - quite beautiful, looks like it should be delicate, but really isn't!
I had a bout 50 in my last garden and favourites there were Etoile Violette, Little Nell, I AM Red Robin, Betty Corning, Alba Luxurians and Omoshiro.
Couldn't grow cirrhosas, alpinas, montanas or macropetalas because of severely cold winters and sometimes brutal spring frosts which killed them all. I will be adding some of those to this garden as and when I find them.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast. "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
I used to have a great unknown Montana, which I miss.
Currently I only have a mimsy, feeble cirrhosa, two Terniflora which are in the wrong place, and a new Alba Luxurians.
I don't think I will be getting a lot more, unless I can find a small Montana, which nobody ever seems to stock. It's mostly because of the colours available - pinks and purples are not really my thing. Clems are just irritating me at the moment - none of them are right, so I just enjoy them in other people's gardens.
Do you like reds and yellows @Fire? Plenty of those in the tangutika group and lots of blues and whites in the macropetalas. I still like the viticellas for their long flowering periods and no worries with frosts and they come in a wide range of flower colour and form from dainty nodding bells to bigger, more open flowers.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast. "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
Very few true reds that I have found. Mostly they are really pink or they vary. I like pink, purple and yellow, I just don't have that much in the current garden pallette.
I forgot to prune one of my Group 3 clematis (it grows within a rambling rose and I just didn't spot it last month) and it's already at the height of the fence. Should I just leave it now or should I still cut it back?
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Sorry if I misunderstood, and glad you found a replacement arch.
I grow mainly Group 3 clematis and try to cut off most of the summer's growth before the worst of the winter weather arrives, but Arwen was not forecast to affect this area so badly -- sadly it did.
Clematis are so reliable though, they start again, as we must sometimes.
Alba Luxurians
Astra Nova
Blue ANgel/Blekitny Aniol
Caerulea Luxurians
Cirrhosa ?? (cutting from a friend)
Crispa
Huldine
I Am Happy
Jackmanii Purpurea
Jan Fopma
Lambton Park
Maxima
My Angel
Piilu
Princess Diana
Silver Moon
Star of India
Tie Dye
"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
Like others my armandii is looking glorious, and my Macropetala and Pixie are just beginning to flower - here's pixie
Picotee and westerplatte will probably be the next to flower, this is only picotee's 3rd year in the ground and its got about a dozen buds on it.
A few of my other favourites that I own;
Samaritan Jo,
Nubia
Filigree
Bijou
Etoile Violette- a bit common, I know but utterly dependable
Polish spirit - as above but what a thug!
Yukikomachi
Silver moon
Piilu ‐ got dried out last year (it's on a west-facing windy porch step in a pot that also turns out to be in a rain shadow!) and has only managed one shoot so far
Rooguchi - quite beautiful, looks like it should be delicate, but really isn't!
Couldn't grow cirrhosas, alpinas, montanas or macropetalas because of severely cold winters and sometimes brutal spring frosts which killed them all. I will be adding some of those to this garden as and when I find them.
"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
Have a search on here - https://clematisontheweb.org/new-clemlistsearch.cfm
"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw