Planting Clematis

This climbing plant is only noticed when it blooms. The plant looks a bit puny during the year, but nevertheless the most beautiful flowers appear when flowering. There is an enormous diversity of plants. Take a closer look at the various species.20

Do you also have a bare wall, an ugly fence or a pergola without flowers? Then consider clematis. This climbing plant fills in an ugly wall nicely.

And with a handful of grains of plant food, this climber will bloom all summer.

This climber is also good to combine with roses, for example. Dark clematis can be beautifully combined with pink roses. You can also choose clematis with different flowering times or colors so that you can extend the flowering season and choose your own color mix. Clematis can also be beautifully combined with honeysuckle.

How to prune a clematis
Pruning is always a tricky thing. How and when is usually the question, I usually don’t make it that hard on myself.

Early flowering clematis: these bloom in April/May on wood from last year. I usually prune these soon after flowering. Just remove some wild branches and dead wood.
I also treat clematis that flower in May/June and give another bloom later in September in the same way.

A clematis that sprouts on branches that have sprouted this year I cut in February / March about half a meter above the ground. This plant will otherwise fan out too much and give uncontrolled bunches of branches that are impossible to control.

Be careful not to cut off flowers that have sprouted on young wood, otherwise you can forget about flowering.

This climbing plant is only noticed when it blooms. The plant looks a bit puny during the year, but nevertheless the most beautiful flowers appear when flowering. There is an enormous diversity of plants. Take a closer look at the various species.20 Do you also have a bare wall, an ugly fence or a pergola…