Clematis, Early Large-flowered, Double Clematis 'Josephine'

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Blackened crispy leaves are often due to a common fungal disease called clematis wilt. Large-flowered clem...Read Moreatis are more prone to clematis wilt than the species and small-flowered hybrids. http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/gardens-gardening/you...

Clematis and tomatoes are two exceptions to the usual rule, and are best planted 6 inches deeper than the soil level in the pot. This protects the stem bases from mechanical damage, and helps prevent clematis wilt, whose fungus enters where there's damage. It also helps keep the roots cool.

Many small-flowered hybrids are spectacular in flower, and long-blooming. I consider them indispensable, especially the viticella hybrids. I've given up planting large-flowered hybrids, except for 'Jackmannii', which seems to be somewhat wilt resistant.

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I have had this vine for 4 years. It has grown more slowly in partial shade than my other clematis vines, but has not shown any signs of...Read More distress. It blooms beautifully as it climbs up one of my apricot trees. I wish I could say the same for the apricot tree.

**UPDATE** ... Don't bother. Every pink one died a horrible death. Now Mid May 2011 and not one survived. Within weeks of the original po...Read Moresting they started wilting and then dead. Winter was not bad at all but these things died before fall. Soil was good as was water. I didn't bother after these were replaced and THOSE died too. Followed the instructions to the letter and no bugs could I find. Kept one indoors and one in shade to see if it made any difference. Nothing. DONT BOTHER!! at least if you live near me. ~~~~~~~~ORIGINAL POST -----> ~~~~~~~......Ok... Got this plant from an online retailer..4 blue and 2 pink. Through no fault of theirs USPS took 10 days to get them here. On arrival they all appeared dead but I planted each one seperately and hoped for the best. To my surpise 1 blue and 1 pink TOOK OFF!! lol. Only 2 weeks old in 7-8hrs of northern nevada sun a day & I already had to re-plant them once into larger containers. The others have dead stems but it seems the roots are still healthy so going to wait it out and see. I saw these blooming at a local nursery and if I was to give them a negative at all it would be that they have no fragrance. Shame for such a lovely flower.

I have a new redwood picket fence going up along the front yard and I'm going to train them along it alternating colors. Can't speak of long term as they are still new but, with seeing how hardy these lil guys & gals are, I'm hoping for the best. So far in 2 weeks they've gone from 1/4in buds to 7in tall seedlings. This rapid growth seems to have subsided now giving way to a "thickening" of the whole plant. On another side note...the retailer has been excellent at getting me the replacements. All in all I'm quite happy with my "afterthought" plants .... 1 more week and they go to ground.

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