I wanted to reply to a previous post on this but couldn’t figure out how to attach a photo. I am having a bonzer Clematis year. The white one smells of chocolate. The Purple white one is a Passiflora that changes to a passion fruit looking thing. The last one is just lovely. I got one from my neighbour and the others from the dead bit at a garden centre for a couple of quid. It fills me with hope that you can resurrect life after others have given up on it. I am not giving up on moaning about poor me why me and it’s not fair as I think I actually enjoy it??? But I will celebrate more the things in life that bring me happiness. I am better off than a lot of people even when I feel bad. So here’s getting a bit better now and again and enjoying life. It is what it is.
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Yes I couldn't figure out how to put a photo in a reply either 🙄 I was going to share a pic of my Clematis Montana when it looked good. We've had a ridiculous thunderstorm this afternoon with torrential rain which has managed to remove the last of the flowers from it. 😥😣🤨
Aww how upsetting. Might be nature’s way of starting over though and you will get a new set of flowers again.
That always happens to my daffodils and the lupins are under crafty snail attack. 😕
Parker has mounted a late night slug stalking offensive with a salt pot. He lurks in the shadows then attacks when they are not looking.
Oh this brings up such a wonderful picture!! Thank you for the really good chuckle this morning
Oh and yours looks lovely! 👍
As far as I know there isn't a way to put a photo in a reply on this forum.
I suppose you could ask the Help Centre if there is a way to do it - but since they seem slow on sorting out faults on the forum I wouldn't hold my breath!!
Doesn’t matter really we can just start a new thread. Glad to know it’s not doable though and not just me 😊
Or me! 😫
Or me! 🙄
These lovely clematis pics make me want another. Did have a beautiful Montana, but a very naughty foster dog chewed through the main stem 😲 So now I’ve let the passiflora take over on the S facing wall.
Any suggestions for an East facing/early morning sun?
Mine is east facing and the best bit (over the coal shed) gets very little sun. It’s really green and stayed that way through winter. The thing we found worked best was cutting it back In December. It looked barren and dead but sprung in to life with hardly any intervention or input from us. We have fed it though every 4 weeks. We have good draining soil too slightly acidic. We were flooded in 2007 and the garden was a total wipe out front and back. We were out of the house for a year. The sewage from blocked drains must have fertilised the ground. Took two years to get the motivation back to start again. But it’s lovely now.
Eew! That must have been awful for you. I’m not surprised it took a while to tackle the garden again.
I’ll try again, and do as you suggest re cutting back in December. That was something I couldn’t do when it climbed up 3 storys of the house, and it got messy. I’m on chalk, but it seemed to like that before.
Lovely. Very cheering. A rescue job too even better.
Oh they are lovely Estellemac and they scent your garden . I’m very jealous. I have a huge amount of Honeysuckle that doesn’t flower anymore although the leaves are green and healthy. Any tips? It’s about 10 years old.
Chop it right back , it will rejuvenate it. I do this every couple of years, this year ours are really good.
We pulled our Honeysuckle up and started again. I do that now with other plants or shrubs like the Forsythia. It’s hard work (Parker does that) but you can redesign that area into something new.
Ooh, l love the dead bit at the garden centre! All that potential to be coaxed back into life with a bit of nuturing; bit like us really.
Me too. I have a clump of aquilegia I bought for a few pence at the 'dead bit' of the garden centre about 30 years ago. Comes back every year and I love it.🥀
Too true!
Aww the picture is lovely, it’s quite fulfilling when you buy a limp plant that’s been forgotten and it repays you like this.
Same with rescue animals xx
If there is love There is always hope
Carole x
Hi Estellamac,
Just got round to reading this post of yours, and have to say that we,too, are having a bumper clematis season - best ever!
We have 50 of them in our relatively small garden, and 18 are currently out.
Fantastic plants in our view., which give lots and lots of pleasure.
To whoever had their clematis ravaged by a dog, I say don't worry, it will surely come back.
My mother in law had her Montana taken down to ground level by a retriever and it was back to its very best the following year!
Stops me thinking too much about my PMR, when I can look out the window at such colour.
Good luck
Paddy
I am going to get a few more for next year. They seem to thrive on neglect at our house. I think it’s been a good Clematis spring.
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