Clematis: Clematis in shrubs, 1 by Pfg

Pfg wrote:
Carolyn, I got the idea from you last spring. At first the Euonymus Alata on either side of the barrel were shading everything too much. They were huge and out of control. The landscape guy was supposed to prune them into globes like he did last year, but instead made them flat-topped and left them just as wide, so they still seemed right on top of the barrel. I had a young kid help me for a day, and had him really thin the shrubs out so now they look woody and ugly. Sigh... But the barrel gets much more light now. Next spring I'll take one more good whack at them and hope to get them into a size and shape that will work.