How was this Clematis trained?

9 years ago

Thank you all for being so patient with me. Below is a picture I found on Hometalk. I have a pretty good size space on the east side of the house that I'd like to put Clematis there, similar to this picture.

My only Clematis experience goes back to the 3 plants I grew 35 years ago, each about a foot apart. They did great, until the Ivy....

Does the picture above look like there's only one plant per trellis? One plant on the left, the other plant on the far right, with two trellises inbetween just for draping the vines?

I have chicken wire, but I'm going to order some netting in a bit. Today is so pretty I'm getting ready to go outside to prep the flower bed.

UPS is pulling up right this second with the 3 obelisks I ordered!

Can you tell I'm obsessed? Not proofreading, I'm in a hurry. lol

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Comments (4)

mnwsgal
9 years ago
It looks to me as if there is one plant on each low trellis and there are two narrow trellises below the window to catch the draping part.
Lilyfinch z9a Murrieta Ca
9 years ago
Oh let's see your obelisks !!

I agree there are two Clem's there, what a pretty idea !

Seems to me like Oakley got bit by the oh so contagious clematis bug ;) !!

Who am I to talk ? I have planted 8 already this season . But they start so small and innocent looking ! :)
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NHBabs z4b-5a NH
9 years ago
I think you have the right idea, two plants one on each side trellis.

Based on my experience, you will do better with plastic coated fence wire rather than netting or chicken wire. It is difficult to separate the clematis parts you have pruned off from netting or chicken wire, while it's much easier on the sturdier plastic coated wire fence mesh.
Oakley
Original Author
9 years ago
Lily, the obelisks are still in the box. I need to prep the ground once I figure out where I'm going to put them.

This is what I bought: Obelisk

Babs, my plan was to put the wire around the base of the obelisks/future trellis, if I copy the picture above, to give the plants something to grasp so it will go up the poles, so it won't be higher than a foot.

Yesterday I remembered when I grew the old Clematis on the old trellis below, I didn't add anything at the bottom of it, and they did just fine. Now I'm wondering if I need anything at all?

I moved the trellis yesterday to a new spot. When I was outside my cat was goofing off around that Clematis, and it's a place where she likes to hunt. I knew it was a matter of time before she broke the stem at the base so I quickly wrapped some chicken wire around it. lol