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Beautiful clematis! What a neat idea using string . As long as it’s not twine, I think it’ll work ? Anyone else agree or disagree? I findcthe sun rots my twine and it falls apart unexpectedly.

Comtess de Bouchard is one of my favorite clematis!

Thanks, do you think where I want to plant the Bouchard at the right of the hosta ok.

i am not sure if there is enough room between them. Hopefully I will get more answers.

I might find another location for the new clematis :-) A one year old Jackmanii will eventually get much larger and completely fill that area! While you could plant the Comtesse in that location, it will become dwarfed by the Jackmanii (about double the size) and may not show to its best. And pink flowered clems tend to become rather washed out in a lot of sun....some afternoon shade would help with maintaining the color.

Thanks gardengal, can you tell me how much sun the jackmanni and the conteste de Bouchard need. My jackmanni looks like there might be no more new flowers for this year. Is that about right or should it go longer.

The Jackmanii can take full sun. Flower color may not be as deeply purple in all day sun but it will remain fully purple :-) I would site the Comtesse where it receives some afternoon shade - like from 2-3pm on.

For a 1 y.o.vine, your Jackmanii is looking pretty good!! It probably won't produce any more new buds this season but next year you should have many more and in subsequent years even more. Not all will open at the same time so the bloom period tends to be long.....late July into September for me.

It looks very happy as a first year vine, and such a deal. Nice choices for both of them.

One of the nice things about using twine is that the clematis find it easy to climb and if it is cotton or hemp, I can just cut it off when I cut back the vines when it gets to be winter and put the whole thing in the compost. I find it more difficult with plastic twine because I either have to separate the vines from the strings or the whole thing has to go in the trash (and we get charged by volume for trash). I haven’t found that cotton or hemp twine falls apart in one season for me, but I do replace it every year. What concerns you about the twine? I most grow clematis on metal trellises or into shrubs, but large wire mesh such as concrete reinforcing grid or rebar or string are fine also as long as they are strong enough to support the vine. Clematis have a difficult time grabbing onto wide wooden slat trellises because they climb using the leaf stems/petioles which are too short to wrap well around the wide slats.

Because of yours are both summer blooming clematis that bloom on new growth, you will find that you get the most bloom if you cut back the plant to two or three buds per stem each winter, and they will regrow to their usually height quickly in spring. If you miss it for a year, it won’t hurt the plant. Young plants will put out more stems sooner if hard pruned.

Thank you both gardengal and nhbabs. I will do as you say and cut the string and vines down around November to 2 buds and put new string next year.

as for the new one Cdb , I am rethinking where to put it. I think I have a place in the front of my home where I have a wood Arbour that I can staple netting to it. I have never put anything climbing on it but I think this might be the right place for it. The bottom of plant will be shaded by a bush of Annabelle’s and the top part will get sun early till 2pm.

Nhbabs,

thanks for that info. Ok I will keep looking for a better spot.