Daniel deronda5/15/2023 ![]() ![]() This sends the growing energy back to the roots and your patience will result in full-flowering, robust vines. ![]() The first summer, keep the vine at 18-inches. Clematis are deep-rooted plants and the roots and top growth need to develop at the same rate for future plant success. The first important pruning of the clematis comes in its first and second growing season in the ground. The worst that will happen is you won’t get flowers for a season. ![]() When you start researching the pruning of the clematis vine, you can quickly become overwhelmed with all the info out there, but I think I finally got it figured out and the most comforting part is that you really can’t get it terribly wrong. I followed the rules of pruning, keeping him at 18” his first year, and he is full of blooms on his 24” vines this year! This group 2 clematis gets a gentle prune to two strong buds in the spring. Do you cut the vine to the ground in the spring or only back to the emerging buds or not at all? ‘Daniel Deronda’ is one of the earliest blooming purple clematis I have found. I also heard your confusion over pruning - the when and how-to of it. I was tickled to hear from so many fellow clematis lovers about their passions for the perennial climber that splays such scrumptious flowers. ![]()
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