What is clematis and how to protect your garden | GET GROWING!
Channel: WTOL11
Date: 2020-08-01

Trumpet Vine or Campsis is a vigorous climber. This aggressive vine can travel all over the garden and take over if you don’t keep it contained. Late winter to early spring, your loppers, and pruners can clean up its snarled shape. Create a framework with one long leader, then keep the laterals short.
Cut about two-thirds of the vines away. Keep laterals short, leaving only two or three buds on each lateral to grow in the spring. If it has really gotten long and leggy, cut it down about a foot off the ground and train the new shoot into place and snipping off the stragglers.
Shape that huge clematis that climbed up the side of the house or on that lamp post last summer.
You will get better flowers if you prune your clematis. Cut every stem back about ten inches to a pair of healthy buds. Cut a few stems 18 inches back and they will flower later in the season. If they have been neglected for years, cut them back six inches from the ground to a pair of strong buds.
Prune them now to keep them looking beautiful this spring. Many times, you see a clematis vine with all of its flowers up high and nothing but stems below. Keep them short when they are just a year or two old. This will help them branch out instead of up.
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