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Restore clematis vines with extreme pruning
03.05.2024 - 14:11 / theprovince.com / Helen Chesnut
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Q. My spring-flowering clematis vines, which I believe are Clematis montana, have in recent years produced fewer and fewer of their lovely pink blooms. The stems are quite woody. Is there a way of bringing the vines back to full bloom or should they be replaced?
A. There is no need to replace them. They can be quite easily restored to full flowering — by extreme pruning. Wait to do this until the usual bloom period is over, in early summer.
Here’s what I did with my C. montana vines, which I planted years ago at the latticework corner bases of a simple gazebo-like structure in the centre of the back garden. The vines had grown up the sides and over the top, to form a roof of pink flowers every May.
In the past few years flowering had become increasingly sparse. The oldest stems had turned woody and looked shredded.
One early summer day two years ago, when a friend was helping out in the garden, we appraised the flagging clematis vines together. Noting the substantial numbers of rapidly growing new, green shoots among the old, woody ones, I decided to take the extreme action of renewing the vines completely.
We removed all the old growth, thinned the many fresh, young stems to leave the strongest, and began training them up the structure corners and over the slats across the top.
The new stems began producing a scattering of bloom in the spring of the following year.
The removal and disposal of all the old stems was a big job. I was more than glad to have help. My friend used her long-handled clippers to quickly chop the stems into fine pieces for
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