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MaryGershon89MaryGershon89 Posts: 16
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hi 

can you please help me identify this climber? And if it's ok to do the support up the fence? 

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Thanks 

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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 29,088

    Can you do a close up of the leaves to give us a better chance?

    Looks to me like it needs to be released from that cane and trained over wires or a trellis panel if it's intended to cover that fence.  It needs something to cling to for support.

    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
  • MaryGershon89MaryGershon89 Posts: 16

    image

    Here is a close up 

    i will do a wire for it but I want to know what it is first to know it's requirements. Thanks 

  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 21,649

    Think it's a clematis.

    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 52,005

    I'd agree with that. As to type and variety - that's more tricky.  image

    Training horizontally as well as vertically helps to give the best coverage. image

    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 10,239

    I'd go with clematis too.
    Have you seen any flowers on it?

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • MaryGershon89MaryGershon89 Posts: 16

    Thanks! No flowers no. The spot it's in at the moment doesn't get much sun. I didn't plant it so I didnt know what it was. 

    Will it be ok if I transfer it to a big pot and wire up brick wall rather than fence? 

  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 21,649

    Some clematis adapt to pots better than others, I have 4 in pots. They usually like their feet in shade and their heads in the sun. If it's in a pot make sure you feed and water it well, they are hungry plants.

    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 29,088

    It will need to be a large pot as clematis are thirsty, hungry plants.  It might just to be easier to stretch wire across between fence posts.  You need one every 12" or so in order to train the stems as horizontally or diagonally as possible as this encourages flowering.  When you do get some flowers, ask us again and then we can maybe work out what it is ad when it should be pruned to get the best out of it.

    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,391

    Just to add that most clematis are perfectly happy in part shade and that they much prefer to be in the ground than in pots so I would leave it.  Do give it a good feed though - a liquid tomato feed is probably best at this stage of the season.

    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • MaryGershon89MaryGershon89 Posts: 16

    Thanks bobthegardener  and everyone else ;) 

    i have left it in the ground and did a frame. It's doing well :) 

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