Pruning Your Clematis for Top to Bottom Blooms
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Is your Clematis beautiful at top but bare at the base? Here is the easy fix for that without losing all of this coming Summers flowers!
This is not the typical tip pruning done in Late winter, early Spring. No matter which pruning group it is in this technique will work to renovate your clematis.
Especially around the base. I have 5 or 6 good size canes on the base of mine and I cut them in different increments from top to bottom.
The top I trim back all canes by 1/3, I eyeballed it and used the base of my landing as my cut off point.
2 of the canes I leave alone from here on out, the remaining 4 canes I cut in incremental lengths. One I cut off at the base (this will encourage new growth from there), the next I cut at 12 inches, then I cut one at 3 feet.
I know it looks like a patch of dirt but it will become more clematis by next Spring.
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Suggested materials:
- Pruners (Amazon)
- Rake (Ace Hardware)
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Published November 14th, 2016 1:28 PM
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William on Nov 14, 2016
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