Your gentle, well delivered videos are packed with all the information I wish I'd seen 50 years ago but 'better late than never'. I struggled with Lancashire's heavy clay, now have stone-packed variable soil and last year resorted to bottomless pots and ll sorts of daft composts. Now have just what I always needed, thank you Ken.
Thank you so much for such great information across all your videos. So hard to get info like this. You’re fab at exposing things in a way that is easily understood. Thank you.
You are the best!! There is so much that we don't know here in the US... Well, that I do not know... We need you here... Your videos are so clear, and with so much information...Thank you a million...🙏🙏🙏🌺🌺🌺
You are very kind. I am glad you find my videos useful I am never quite sure how to pitch them for a US audience because of your different time zones. I also get the impression that good sized clematis are not as easy to find and that the prices are higher. Is that so? Are there any particular videos that would be helpful to Gardeners’ in the USA? Ken
Found you today Ken while searching videos on clematis, great channel and also subscribed. I have three clematis growing in the garden at the moment and will be adding more for sure with fresh new knowledge! 👍👍👍
You are truly remarkable Ken, being able to grow clematises or κληνατίδες climatithes in greek. You should visit Corfu this month and enjoy the aroma of the forests with the wild clematis alba grown on top of olive trees and other bushes. A greek lady who was corresponding with Ptince Philip.
I had no idea that Avalanche had a reputation for not withstanding our UK weather. I have one growing on a north west facing border and it is beautiful and much admired. I am in central Scotland and it can get pretty cold here, though we had a milder than usual winter last year. My sister also has one - she has had hers for much longer and it has been glorious.
Yes I know of a friend who lives in the North East of England near the coast and he grows it at his front door. Flowers every year. There always are exceptions and I am glad that you are one of them. However, I have lost count of the number of people who claim to have been put off from growing any clematis because of purchasing a New Zealand hybrid that quickly died. The other reason that I don’t promote them is the price most garden centres sell them for. Almost a mortgage job! Have a good gardening year and thank you for putting forward an alternative point of view.
@@kenblackclematis8272 Thank you for the great information. It was a gift - I shall know not to recommend it to others and also to be especially careful with mine x
Hi Ken, I have a fence about 20m long that I'm thinking of using armandii apple blossom as a wall of Clematis, planted in bottomless pots using your method here. I wonder, could you please tell me how far your armandii spreads or how far apart you'd recommend planting apple blossom?
Hi Ken, do you have any suggestions on how to protect new shoots from earwigs? I have four Viticella Etoila Rose. Three in my front garden and one in my back garden. Every spring the new shoots on the one in the back garden are stripped bare by earwigs, eventually, the plant does grow but not as well as the plants in the front. Love your videos, look forward to seeing many more very informative. Thank you.
Shirley, these clematis don't need cutting back in the fall because they ned the whole year from when they fish flowering to build up buds for next year. If you do have one which is getting too big cut it back to the space you have immediately after it has flowered.
