{"id":4029,"date":"2013-10-10T02:11:32","date_gmt":"2013-10-10T09:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4029"},"modified":"2024-02-24T16:22:34","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T16:22:34","slug":"clematis-pruning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/clematis-pruning\/","title":{"rendered":"Easy Clematis Pruning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do not sweat the problem of pruning clematis &#8211; do what seems right following these guidelines if you must.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/clematis-pruning\/attachment\/c1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4035\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4035\" title=\"c1\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/c1.jpg\" alt=\"c1\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/c1.jpg 448w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/c1-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Easy Clematis Pruning Tips <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Prune all Clematis in Spring, early Spring for late flowering Clematis that flower on new wood and late Spring after flowering for Clematis that flower on old wood.<\/li>\n<li>The later in the year it flowers the harder you should prune it.<\/li>\n<li>Treat your Clematis as a flowering shrub.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/tips\/flowering-climbers-look-great\/attachment\/clematis1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3259\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3259\" title=\"clematis1\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/clematis1.jpg\" alt=\"clematis1\" width=\"336\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/clematis1.jpg 336w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/clematis1-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 336px) 100vw, 336px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Clematis Montana Group 1 Spring Flowering<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A very vigorous Clematis with a short flowering season but may be scented in sunny positions.<br \/>\nCuttings can be taken in late summer from semi ripe wood or propagate by layering.<br \/>\nAs this plant is often used to cover old trees pruning will be based on a light trim after flowering (if you can reach they can grow 15 feet tall)<br \/>\nSimilar but less vigorous Clematis species are C. vedriensis or C. chrysocoma<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/clematis-as-slug-food\/attachment\/close-up-clematis\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-455\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-455\" title=\"close-up-clematis\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/close-up-clematis.jpg\" alt=\"close-up-clematis\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/close-up-clematis.jpg 2304w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/close-up-clematis-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Clematis Rouge Cardinal<\/strong> Group 2 Summer Flowering<\/p>\n<p>A stunning 4in wide flower of velvety crimson colour with a satin sheen to the petals surface.<br \/>\nRoots should be kept cool, shaded and uniformly moist. Blooms occur on the current year&#8217;s growth.<br \/>\n<strong>Prune back hard<\/strong> to approximately 6-9 inches from the ground to strong leaf buds in late winter to early spring before growth begins. As with all the late-flowering clematis this pruning is easy and makes these clematis useful for training up shrubs, trees and climbing roses.<br \/>\nNeeds an adequate supply of nutrients during the growing season to support rapid growth.<br \/>\nVery free flowering habit although the plant&#8217;s structure is rather weak and needs supporting.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/tips\/flowering-climbers-look-great\/attachment\/clematis\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3252\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3252\" title=\"clematis\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/clematis.jpg\" alt=\"clematis\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/clematis.jpg 448w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/clematis-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Clematis Viticella and late Hybrids Group 3<\/strong><br \/>\nThese Clematis flower even later in the summer so they should be pruned early in spring.<br \/>\nPrune to a couple of buds 30 inches above soil level.<br \/>\nIf there is too much top growth they can be partially trimmed in Autumn leaving the final prune to spring<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/clematis-pruning\/attachment\/clematis-seed\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4036\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4036\" title=\"clematis-seed\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/clematis-seed.jpg\" alt=\"clematis-seed\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Seed Head<\/p>\n<p>See also <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/tips-for-growing-clematis\/\">Tips on Growing Clematis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Easy clematis pruning and more advanced pruning by clematis group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,17],"tags":[178],"class_list":["post-4029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers","category-gardening","tag-pruning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4029","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=4029"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21448,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4029\/revisions\/21448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}