{"id":10462,"date":"2024-03-01T01:22:35","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T01:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10462"},"modified":"2024-02-24T16:20:27","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T16:20:27","slug":"climbing-clematis-and-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/climbing-clematis-and-family\/","title":{"rendered":"The Climbing Clematis  Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Clematis by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/5937642292\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6131\/5937642292_6eda364af4.jpg\" alt=\"Clematis\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Clematis is one of the worlds favourite flowers for climbing over fences and trellis.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>The Family of Clematis<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Clematis genus is from the family Ranunculaceae which is the same as the buttercup and many other plants.\u00a0Winter Aconites &#8211; Eranthis hyemalis and Adonis amurensis start the flowering year along with other family members the Hellebores.<\/li>\n<li>In spring Anemone, Marsh Marigolds and buttercups take over.<\/li>\n<li>For summer consider Globe flowers or Trollius, Rue <em>Thalictrum<\/em>, Acquilegia, Delphinium, Aconitum, Larkspur and Love-in-a-mist or Nigella.<\/li>\n<li>Baneberries, Bugbane and Japanese Anemones round off the Ranunculaceae display in autumn.<\/li>\n<li>What a versatile and wide spread family.<\/li>\n<li>As with other members of the Ranunculaceae family there is a Clematis species or variety to flower in most seasons.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"Clematis by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4609805732\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3417\/4609805732_998f15a9b8.jpg\" alt=\"Clematis\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why do Botanists make Choice So Complex?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>As a youngster I knew there was a plant called Clematis<\/li>\n<li>After a while I heard about three groups of clematis with different pruning rules. Group 1 are early flowering\u00a0 species Group 2 are early flowering large flowered hybrids and Group 3 late flowering large flowering hybrids and species.<\/li>\n<li>Then in my latest gardening book there are a dozen groups and I particularly go for the C.Viticella<\/li>\n<li>Clematis cirrhosa flowers in December and if covered to protect from winter snow will survive our climate.<\/li>\n<li>The Clematis Montana rubens like Nelly Moser and Ville de Lyons are firm May favourites. C. jackmanii are large late flowerers<\/li>\n<li>C. Tetrosa has larger flowers. Small flowers Clematis tangutica and flammula are interesting varieties to seek out from your suppliers or friends.<\/li>\n<li>Clematis vitalba flowers in late autumn and produces interesting seed heads<\/li>\n<li>C. armandis are evergreen<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Read <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/tips-for-growing-clematis\/\">Tips for Growing Clematis<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/clematis-pruning\/\">Clematis Pruning<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Family connections to the Clematis genus benefit from a specialist feed <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10462"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21444,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10462\/revisions\/21444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}