Clematis: Pinching Belle of Woking, 1 by pirl

pirl wrote:
Back in March I purchased a Belle of Woking at a big box store so I could try Jeanne's method of cutting it back to promote lush growth:

"Prune down to the lowest pair of growth buds in early Spring..then you pinch out the tops of each new shoot after it has grown 2 pair of leaves..Pinch out again once these new leave have also made two pair of leaves."

So here's Belle, ready for her first pinching - this is the first of seven photos to show the progress.