Clematis: Suggestions for Pruning Group 1 that grow in Louisiana, 1 by doss

doss wrote:
I have group 1's and they are lovely in the spring - and the foliage is really pretty the rest of the season. Montana Broughton Star is supposed to bloom more than once but mine hasn't done that. However, it's growing in a lot of shade.

You may have a misimpression about pruning though. They are very easy to prune. Type threes get cut down to about a foot (to a set of buds) and type twos get cut down only a third. I keep my Montanas trained as I go through the summer. If you want them to go to a specific place you have to direct them in that way through the growing season.

Here's Montana Ruebens trained on my porch. It's been in the ground 6 years.