Gardening: Growing and caring for a clematis plant
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The Clare Byrne Show on Newstalk. With Aviva Insurance.
Barry Staunton is here now. We're talking all things clematis in the garden today. That's the beautiful climbing flower. I'm looking at pictures of it here. Beautiful pinks and purples, summer colours. But they can be tricky, can they, if you don't know what you're doing?
Well, that's not so much tricky. There's kind of, there's three groups, basically. First one is the clematis that kind of flower in winter and spring.
What is clematis and why is it popular in gardens?
You cut them back after flowering. You don't need to do too much with them. So, example, Montana or Armandii, which is the, Armandii is the kind of the evergreen plant. Beautiful scent. So just cut them back a little bit after flowering. Then there's a second group. Yes. That flower now. So I put up a photograph on Instagram there of the Pearl d'Azur. Really nice kind of purpley. My husband calls it blue, but I call it purple.
What are the three main groups of clematis plants?
You know, there's this... That's been going on for years in your house, I can tell. No, no, it's blue.
How do you properly prune winter and spring flowering clematis?
So that's flowering now. So that's in group two, but it can be in group three. So group two is you cut some of the stems down in February and leave some long so that you can tread them around maybe an arch or a pergola or something. So you get flowers lower down, higher up. Are all these groups climbing though? All climbing. All climbing, OK. And then the third group is the ones that you cut down to the ground in February. And they're the easy one. So you just cut it down to the ground, kind of a foot or 30 centimetres off the ground in February. And whatever growth it makes from then, it flowers on.
We need to know what we're doing here.
Well, I'm going to tell you something. The best plants for advice in terms of what, you know, the bit of spiel they put on their labels.
Yes.
Is Clematis. For some reason, they really kind of give all the info on the label of Clematis.
What care is needed for clematis that flower in summer?
So it'll tell you what group it's in. It'll tell you when to cut it back. So, you know, it's a really good... And that's my bugbear labels. They should give that amount of information. But Clematis do.
With this one, they do.
They do. So, you know, Nellie Moser would be the one in the kind of second group where you cut back some of the stems and then you cut back... The other one's not too hard. So you get that lovely kind of extra flowers. Pearl du Jour is the same one as well. So you're kind of making sure that you get a flush of flowers now, which is in full flower, and then you get flowers later on in the summer.
Yeah, it's a lovely time of year, isn't it? It's the first of July now. All the colours are out.
All the hard work coming to fruition. Yeah, exactly. You'd hope. So now the weeds are, it's just when you get a bit of rain, the weeds start kind of coming up again, you know.
But you can ignore them more successfully when you have lovely colours. to look at exactly and they're kind of in between the big blousy kind of dahlias and stuff you don't notice that's it I think that's a very important point to make now some questions coming in my plum tree is covered in a oh a grey like stain and the plums are unripened and struggling oh this doesn't sound good no the tree appears to be dying what should I do asks Paul okay so
I suppose one of the major things with plums and cherries is you cannot prune them in the winter. That's an absolute no-no. Can't take any branches off or prune them back in the winter. Do you think that's what Paul did? I don't know, but it invites silver leaf disease in, which is that. OK, so you get that kind of that kind of grayish color on them. And then, you know, plums on a tree like that tend not to ripen. They tend to have kind of these little kind of pustules on them, like they're almost like a rusty colour and they shrivel up.
Because he also wants to know if it's OK to eat them.
Well, I have in some instances. But what will happen in June is the plum tree will divest itself of a lot of plums in order for the other ones to get fatter and more juicy and gorgeous. So that's not anything to worry about.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:01–0:31
2
What is clematis and why is it popular in gardens?
0:31–0:55
3
What are the three main groups of clematis plants?
0:55–1:01
4
How do you properly prune winter and spring flowering clematis?
1:01–1:48
5
What care is needed for clematis that flower in summer?
1:48–3:58
6
How can you identify if your clematis is in the right environment?
3:58–9:12