Clematis vines are beautiful bloomers -- if conditions are right to encourage flowering. This one is called Wisley. Q: I have a clematis vine that grows like crazy. It's been in the ground for 6 or 7 ...

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Q. Several of my clematis vines appear to be partially broken very close to the ground. I don’t want to lose these beautiful plants. What do you recommend? –Georgette McKinley, Chicago A. It is not ...

Q. I have an established clematis in my backyard that flowers prolifically in early summer and I have often wondered in recent years if I should be going out and regularly deadheading it. What's best ...

I've never met anyone who didn't love clematis That doesn't mean, though, that everyone knows how to grow them successfully. I didn't, at least not until I heard a presentation by Linda Beutler, ...

Three things made me fall in love with clematis: a visit to Linda Beutler's garden here in Portland, a trip to England with my mom and dad, and getting to know Maurice Horn of Joy Creek Nursery. At ...

One of my readers from Ashland asked me this 15 years ago: “My clematis vines are getting pretty old, maybe 20 years. There are a lot of brown limbs. Can the vine be cut back and will it come back and ...

When I was a gardening neophyte, I planted an all-pink flower bed in front of my house. I selected my favorite soft pink flowering plants to fill out the bottom, middle and top, where a trellis runs ...

Q: I have been perplexed for many years concerning my clematis. The variety is ‘Gipsy Queen’ and it is healthy but never blooms. Every spring, I prune it back a couple of inches from its base, which I ...

Q: A pod like a small vanilla bean appeared at the top of my clematis vines last summer. The seeds inside look like pine nuts. Are they clematis seeds, and if so, how do I plant them? A: The beanlike ...

There were years and years when it was said that clematis wouldn’t grow in Southern California. Like a lot of horticultural advice we get, it turns out it wasn’t true. I didn’t discover the untruth, ...

My clematis leaves have spots. My neighbor said I have to dig it up. It’s so beautiful when it blooms, is there anything less drastic I can do? Digging up the vine is premature. Clematis fungal leaf ...