Clematis: Here we go again!!!, 1 by Lily_love

Lily_love wrote:
Sharkey, I planted a group of clematis to this front border back in 2005 I think. The first year I propped them with a bamboo trelis -- which was a mistake. The bamboo disintergrate a season there after, so I replaced them with 3 wrought iron tuteurs. It get a bit filtershade. Later I added some small shrubs to the area just in case the vines want to 'spill over' which they did. lol. That's a gardenia bush in the area. :-)

This was back in May 2006: