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The cold winter will kill a lot of the stems when leaves begin to emerge in the spring, just remove the dead parts. Don’t prune clematis that begin to bloom in May or early June. To counter the anxiety, Tibbetts has developed the Frozen North Pruning System. Some people shy away from growing clematis because they are afraid to prune it.

On the practical side, it saves Hummingbird space. But letting the root go deeper is healthier for the plant, Tibbetts said. Most clematis are sold in shorter, wider 7-inch pots. When I planted the clematis, I noticed that the roots reached all the way to the bottom of the pot. A clematis I bought from Tibbetts recently came in a pot unlike anything I had seen before – 14 inches tall but only a few inches wide at the top.

Shutterstock/Noemi S Riveraīig roots are important for clematis. Even small boys are taken with the beauty of the flower. Come back a few weeks later, and you’ll have a new clematis.Ī clematis vine grows up the corner of a building. In any case, the trick is to pin the stem to the pot, make sure the pot doesn’t dry out, and walk away, she said. “The roots went out through the drainage hole something like 10 feet into the ground.” “The first time I did this, I was so afraid I was going to kill (the new plant) that I waited too long before cutting it off from the original plant,” Tibbetts said. If you want your new clematis to grow in a different location, use the same method, but tack the stem down in a pot you’ve filled with soil. Tibbetts uses bobby pins to hold the stems down.

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The process involves taking a long stem of a clematis plant, bending it down without breaking it off, placing it on a clear patch of ground, and holding it down. Home gardeners can create new clematis plants, which are perennials, in a much simpler way, using a method called layering. “It’s been a pretty wonderful learning curve,” she said about the process, which, coincidentally, I wrote about in a recent column, as it’s practiced at Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens. To ensure her own supplies – especially of clematis with smaller flowers – she has started creating her own seedlings through tissue culture. “Let’s just say I’m not real pleased with the marijuana industry.” “I carry it nearly every year, but am sold out for this year.”īack to suppliers: “One of my biggest suppliers stopped growing clematis and instead created a hemp farm,” she said. “It grows wild all the way to Baxter State Park!” she said. There are some 2,000 varieties of clematis, Tibbetts said, among them the eastern U.S. A lot of wholesale clematis growers are going out of business, and she’s finding she can no longer get many of the rarer varieties she likes. “I got the stuff that likes cold weather,” Hummingbird owner Cindy Tibbetts said, stuff she wants to propagate and sell.īut there’s another reason Tibbetts is propagating her own clematis. Rogerson, in turn, gave a lot of it away. When Joy Creek Nursery, a major Oregon clematis retailer, went out of business, it gave its stock to Rogerson Clematis Garden, also in Oregon. The nursery has recently expanded its offerings – thanks to an Oregon nursery that closed – and has begun propagating more of its own plants. Clematis lovers in Maine will want to know about Hummingbird Farms in Turner, one of Maine’s premiere clematis growers and dealers.

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