Especially to these Etsy and sellers that sell the grocery store small clematis. I never knew this I have many small ones that have died or not doing well
This is the fourth clematis video I have watched this morning and I've learned more from you than anyone. You are like a neighbor who has come over to give me a hand. My plant came in a box, not a pot, and this helps me see I must pot it up and baby it for a bit before putting it in the ground. I"ll be defying the instructions on the box and follow yours instead. THANK YOU.
Your comments are very kind. I am glad that you found ,y video helpful. We have all bought young plants of various kinds and planted them into garden only to find that they die. I hope that my lesson of learning the hard way helps others not to make the same mistakes. Good luck
Wish I'd seen this last year 😢 new to gardening and ordered from a garden centre and planted straight away.. there is nothing this year above ground, gutted! .. will try again this year using your advice thank you!
I cant resist buying supermarket clematis &I have built up a nice collection over the years using my system.I soak supermarket pots in water for an hour &then repot them in deep pots burying a couple of inches of the stem in amix of JI3 & COCO PEAT, prune the tip &let them grow on.When a couple of lush stems develop,I give them dilute fortnightly tomorite feed &also a foliar feed once a month.The plants overwinter in a sunny sheltered spot.In late spring I plant them out digging in compost&then PLANT THEM DEEPER YET AT A SLANT BURYING A COUPLE OF INCHES OF STEM.I sprinkle Godetia seeds arind the base to provide shade @the rootsUsing this method I havent lost a single one in 10 years
I've learnt so much from this video. Thank you! I'm off to dig up my supermarket clematis I planted in the garden last month to transfer it in a pot . It hasn't been looking too well. Now I know why!
Thank you. His was top notch. A wealth of knowledge in such a an excellent demonstration. I’ve had my share of successes and failures with clematis over the decades but now have a few more ideas to tip the scale towards the positive. . Much appreciated from the Rockies in western Canada where both the native and cultivars are just starting to wake up.
I was quite obsessed for some time to acquire clematis for our yard, and finally this year I did get a number of them, currently 7 different varieties. Your video is full of great advices, I will follow them just right. Thank you very much, greetings from Lithuania!
So glad I found your channel. I am gardening in Brittany for the first time. I used to live in Southern Africa and new to gardening in the northern climes. I love Clematis.
EXCELLENT TEACHING OF TRYING TO GROW MY SMALL NEW CLEMATIS!!! It will take years to grow a large ball root in order to survive!!! I will move mine into pots and place the pots on my winter sun porch in the winter!!! Mine came from a Garden Club sale so they already were quite long with long vines. I should cut these back this fall before I bring them inside. Great teacher! Best video I've seen. Exactly what I needed answers on!!!!! You are handsome, too!!!
Hello Ken, a year on I have collected almost 40 of these plants, success rate about 50%. Had some glorious flowers to see what they are because many don't fit the label. This is the best video on YT; your information perfectly delivered. I'd add: shelter is important, take a photo of newly potted labelled plants + original card before saving it. To plant them in garden soil, cut the bottom off a plastic pot filled with your compost to move easily.
Excellent tips, thank you! I put a young clematis diamond ball and it was struggling in the ground for the first season, I think I will dig it up and pot it gradually so it can focus on those roots first. My poor baby plant needs to be nurtured and I was expecting blooms the first summer I planted it. Shame on me but now I know better. Thank you and happy my new year 2022. Greetings from Houston Texas 🇺🇸 zone 9.
Thank you! You’ve reinforced all my thoughts … about planting 3 in one pot. Simple easy to understand info. And bringing on the cheaper ones instead of the £15-£20 ones one from the garden centres…. Ohhh We’ve had Romanitka for about 10 years .. when finished cut to the ground a little bonemeal about November to feb and away she gos.. fed with tomato feed a couple of times each month and she’s covered with flowers oh and dead head regular! Thank you for the vid…. B 🤓
Thank you so much for this informative video I now know why my supermarket plants always die BUT thanks to this video any future buys from the supermarket should be ok. I am hitting the big red button
Update on my supermarket clemitas from last spring. Both flowered and i just let them be thinking i would loose them over the winter. One has done better than the other with several stems, about 5 all running up the fence. The other has 3 maybe 4, not as high as the other but both have flower buds. Bought 2 new supermarket ones a couple of days ago and i am going to follow your instructions with them and see how they work out 🙂
wow what a guy , his style speed and pace is absolutely spot on , get him on gardeners world ,,, oh, perhaps not he had a peat based compost ,,, what would monty say 😂
Hands down the best informational video on the subject. You also made me giggle a few times! Thank you 😊 All around a great video! This info makes me want to go dig up the two plants that survived our long winter, pot them up and put them in the high tunnel. I've had my ups and downs with clematis over the years. I agree that the packaging should have better planting and care instructions. Your video helped me understand why I've killed a few and why last year, the baby plants I planted made it through a long winter. I think it's because we had a good amount of snow before a hard freeze and the plants were insulated from by the snow pack. We live in Eastern Washington State at a high elevation in a pine and fir forest with a short growing season.
Wow, I am not sure that I would know where to start with growing clematis in such low temperatures. Fortunately most clematis will tolerate very low winter temperatures. In Poland there are some great clematis breeders and their exported clematis are really hardy
Thank you for this video. Exactly what I was looking for. I just got my first Clematis and been looking for tutorials on how to repot them and prune to give them the best chance of survival.
Thankyou ,I'm so glad I found your channel ,I now know why my plug plants didn't do so well ,I only grew them on until the autumn ,then planted out thinking they could put down roots overwinter ,I added compost to improve my clay soil , but had only a 50% survival rate
Thank you very much. I often buy clematis at lidl. They need one year to adapt, the second year they flower well. This is my experience with super market clematis. Greetings Marcus
It depends on the age of the clematis. the ones that are sold for around £5 are generally older and therefore more resilient than the small ones which I featured in my video. They are great for starting or adding to a collection but they do need to be grown on in pots first
such a great video.Took your advice last year and have 3 strong cuttings from same supermarket clematis.Always refer to this video if ive forgotton something.Presented in a cool calm british mannor,thankyou sooo much !.
Oh well....i planted 2 supermarket clemitas and a jasmine couple weeks ago. They have all put on growth so im hopeful they will be okay. I like the idea of the pot with several plants! Very informative.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us very informative. I now know why all the clematis I have bought over years for the supermarket have never survived, I will now do what you suggested when I buy the next one thank you.
Hello, Ken, it will probably be a surprise for you to learn that new selections are sold in Russian supermarkets, along with old varieties. The only drawback is the quality of the plants and the presence of confusion in the varieties. You often buy a “pig in a poke”, so the lover is always ready to return to private nurseries. Greetings and best wishes to you from Russia.
Thank you so much for the information. I know of one clematis enthusiast in Russia. Her name is Nina Mironova and she has posted information on Facebook about clematis breeders in Russia. I have a copy of one of her articles which I will send you if you would like to let me have an email address. Ken
Thank you so much for an excellent video. I’m so much wiser. No wonder I’ve had so many failures with supermarket buys. Out of eight purchased last year one with good thick multi stemmed growth with lots of big healthy buds. Two others just look marginally bigger than when purchased. The remaining five dead. Much encouraged by you I’ve ordered a zip up greenhouse to start again. Thank you again.
Really super! Your video is just what I was looking for! I bought a 'Paul Farges' (clematis fargesioides) for a very shady spot (first 47 inches) and a 'Lambton Park' (clematis tangutica 'L. P.) for a normal sunny spot in my garden. Both were bought online far away from my hometown from a gardening nursery, more likely a fast selling company. The internet performance was just very impressive (loads of plants, perfect tools to compare or search, great descriptions). But both clematis are just tiny. I was very unsure how to plant them. Thanks to your detailed and helpful advice I know now that it's much better to keep nursing them till next year. Thanks a million for sharing your valuable knowledge 🌻💓👍🏼 ! Warm regards from northern Germany! Ps. You remind me of Bill Nighy (especially the tiny curtsy of your left hip) 😍😉👍🏼
Sorry for taking so long to reply but I have only just found your comments. Bill Nighy eh. I think I shall have to develop a much posher voice to be compared to him. I am glad that you found my advice helpful
Thank you Ken! I just finished watching your pruning clematis video. It was so helpful. I have 3 clematis that are finally getting established. It's spring and time for pruning. You gave me courage and I'll be going out tomorrow for trimming. I lost my tags and have been winging it. Last year was my best flowering year yet. It's unnerving when pruning time comes. I have a feeling this will be their best year yet! Thank you for advice and information! Love from Colorado
I am pleased that you found this useful. Many people find pruning an ordeal and err on the side of not pruning enough. Once you have done it though and you can see the new growth, the fear disappears.
@@kenblackclematis8272 I'm having a really good growing season with my climatice. I have this one grows so bushy at the bottom and doesn't climb the lattice. I have a jumper trellis till it grabs the lattice. I watch it and keep threading it through the lattice but it never climbs up and is always short and bushy. Any advice? It's a gorgeous plant with burgundy
Just subscribed, very informative, I bought a Repens a few years ago from a chain store,when I moved i tried to find another as it was fabulous and wanted one in my new garden, I've searched the internet for it but to no avail, possibly because as you say it was an old variety. I will keep looking though.
I am pleased you find my videos helpful. In respect of Clematis repens, I am surprised that you found this available commercially because it is not a well known or well grown species. your best bet is to see if you can get some seed from a clematis society. I have checked my current stock (British Clematis Society) and do not have any at present. Perhaps next year. Sorry Ken
I am delighted to find this sensible video, after buying three last year from B&Q, six from Morrisons, and an evergreen from Homebase. Most are old names, with RHS AGM. (I did fall for a £10 Boulevard 'Bernadine' in full flower in a clearance.) I;m waiting to see a bud colour before lopping them because I don't trust many labels. Many thanks Ken.
@ ken black videos The overall height and spread figures matter as do colours. Even on web sites, it is not good to see important information notjust different but contradictory so I'm placing great trust iin your garden videos. Thankyou Ken.
Its a joy to come across such an intelligent ,educational video so clearly explaining thingss ; as others have hinted there's so much drivel out there from people who haven't a clue how to make a useful video. Thanks. One question . You put clematis even three, in a plastic pot suggesting its probably fine even in frosty weather.. But what about heat? Some suggest plastic is not good for clematis because it needs a cool root environment. I don't really expect an answer as you made this video two years ago.
Thank you for your helpful comments and I am pleased that you found the video useful. In respect of the plastic pot the clematis will be fine because all clematis in the UK are grown in them until they are large enough to be planted in the ground. This is when the roots can fill a two or three litre pot. The pots I use to plant 3 clematis in are 10+ litre pots. Generally frost is not an issue for clematis as most of them are very frost hardy. They would not do well in these pots in summer heat without some shade on the pot by putting it behind other plants or putting it into a larger outer pot. Does that answer help?
@@kenblackclematis8272 Yes, it sure dies help. Thanks for such a quick unexpected response.. I was forgetting that in your video you were just demonstrating the early treatment of these supermerket clematis. You were not talking about their long term care. I will certainly be looking in my local supermerket clematis ith new eyes. I've always dismissed them as probably poor quality and paid £12/15 instead, Lots to look forward to now. Thanks again for such a good video.
I have Julie Correvan, Polish Spirit, Comtessa de Bouchard and Mrs Cholmondeley from the supermarket a few years ago all doing fabulously using this method and cost me less than a tenner! Patience definitely makes better plants!
Hi, Ken! Your video was highly recommended by another fellow gardener! Wow, I’m so glad to have watched and learned! I just recently made a sort of raised bed amended with compost and planted Dr Ruppel. Would the same strategy work, keeping shooters pruned back for a couple of seasons? And boy oh boy, I can’t wait to pair two together in a pot! Thank you for sharing this wonderful information! Much appreciated!
Hi Lisa. I am pleased that you found the video helpful. All clematis benefit from being pruned during the first two years because it helps to develop a strong root ball. Pruning also gives you more stems and a bushier plant. Experiment and learn to get to know your clematis
I like to start with small plants in the ground of my yard so the roots can grow and adjust to my soil, although I do mix my native soil with an equal amount of compost to give the plant some natural nutrition. Mine have done well over the many years I have lived here in Michigan, USA, zone 6a, with winter temps down to as low as -5 F or -20 Celsius. I have not lost any clematis. I plant mine in part sun with shaded roots and I add compost on top of the roots in the fall for winter insulation. Would try your technique if I had a greenhouse. Maybe someday! Still I thank you for your informative lesson. 😀
Good for you. Unfortunately many of us don’t have the ideal growing conditions that you have so we have to nurture our youngsters a little more in the early stages.
This is great information. Turns out I did it right last year when I couldn't put them in the garden and just plonked them all together in pots. The only supermarket one that has ever gone like a rocket was Bill Mackenzie. It romped to the top of a 6 foot tripod last year and has only just been chopped down this week.
Thank you Ken. I will have to stop watching your videos. Despite my best intentions to buy no more plants (I moved last year to a house with a shoebox of a garden 😢) , I just came home from the supermarket with 5 more Clematis! 3 (Princess Diana, Guernsey Cream and The President) of them were on my list to get “sometime in the future” . Well I have then now 😂 I have never lost a Clematis yet, despite mainly buying the tiny supermarket ones and putting them straight into the ground I am extremely fussy about picking out the best of the batch . (I go through the entire batch 😂) though and only buy when they are fresh in to the store. They mostly don’t look after them well IME. If they had any intention of watering them adequately, they wouldn’t use those cardboard labels which disintegrate if the get wet. Anyway. Tomorrow’s job will be cutting them hard back and potting them on - and probably taking a few cuttings at the same time 😁 Thank you again for sharing your wealth of experience.
Thank you for taking such an interest. The young clematis that I am talking about and demonstrating here are too young to be planted out but they can be kept outside as they grow. i do try to keep my plastic pots shaded because they might otherwise get too hot in the sun and dry out. For adult clematis ie those large enough to plant out they don't so much need shade at their roots but they need access to moisture and are more likely to find it in shade than in full sun. I would not encourage anyone to cover the base of a clematis with stones, rocks or slate because this creates a perfect environment for slugs and snails. At night they can climb up the stems of the newly planted clematis and eat the sort tissue, then hide under the stones, rocks, slate etc during the day. By under planting a clematis with other plants you will attract birds, toads, fogs and other predators that feed on slugs and snails, thus better protecting the plant from harm. hope this helps Ken
@@kenblackclematis8272 Thank you so much for taking the time to respond and with such detailed information. I have so many good memories from my mom growing clematis. I have taken over an old garden with two plants which I have miss managed but they have not given up on me. I have now added two from the local nursery and doing my best to give then the best start in the garden. They are not weak 2 Pound plants and have a nice big root ball. As for remembering what kind I buy I take a picture with the phone of both plant and sign so I remember what I buy for later reference plus I can see if the plant has grown since I took the picture.
Thank you. Appreciate what you say but I have numerous supermarket clematis in my garden. As long as you watch them and make sure they are sheltered and watered they seem to do well. I have lost one or two in the past but they are so inexpensive it’s not a tragedy. I always plant in containers not open ground.
That is one way of looking at things. Some gardens are more clematis friendly than others when it comes to planting immature plants. The majority, however, don’t do as well. Keep on doing what you do, it is clearly working
I guess I’m very lucky I bought two of these from the supermarket and planted them so far it’s going on six years and they’re beautiful. They are growing up my mailbox.( northbeast, USA)
Hi there, I purchased one of these small Jackmanii in July. I did my research and this clematis seems happy in zone 9 (Tampa, FL). Purchased from a nursery in Ocala, FL. The plant was very healthy upon arrival. I placed it in a very large planter with good drainage. It did swimmingly for 2 months, then suddenly stopped growing. Since then the plant itself is turning brown, the stalk is progressively becoming brown (woody?). The leaves still remain viable, but I fear it is only a matter of time. Clematis wilt? Improper planting? It is on a second floor patio with 1/2 sun, 1/2 shade during the day. Can you help? Thank you. Linda
Hi I’ve bought two supermarket clematis in taller pots than your examples, and am now thinking I should pot them up until their root system is stronger, but I’ve noticed you are using plastic pots to do this, will they be okay in plastic pots as I’ve read that they will be too hot for the feet of the plants.....they will be outside as I don’t have a greenhouse. One is a General Sirkorski and one is a Contessa de Bouchard, thank you.
Hello Ken, I've bought a beautiful supermarket white clematis named Mrs G Jackman to plant in memory of our dear late Queen Elizabeth II. I will follow your advice and pot it on and keep it in my small plastic greenhouse. Want to nurture it like a new baby to ensure a good result. What is best medium to grow it in and how often will it need watering in winter please.
Hi Janet. What a lovely idea. Any good compost will do and you willow have to feed it until Spring. I suggest that you prune it now by cutting the stems down to just above the second pair of leaves. That will help it to produce more stems for next year.. it will not need watering during the winter very much if at all. If it appears to be growing give it some water but if it is dormant just let it rest. Mrs George Jackman is a lovely clematis but one that I think can be tricky to grow. It is an early large flowered type which might be better grown in a pot permanently rather than planted in the ground. As with all these early large hybrids plant it more deeply when you next pot it on to ensure that it has buds under the compost level. On my website you will find a chart you can refer to or download and this contains more details about planting and pruning etc. if you get stuck drop me a line again and I will do my best to help. If you have space there is a montana called Elizabeth which was introduced in 1953 and clearly named after the young queen Good luck Kenblackclematis.com
@@kenblackclematis8272 Thank you - my baby Clematis put to bed for the winter in its new pot. Stems cut down as advised. Will feed it and glad it won't have to be 4 hourly! I will guard it with my life and keep my fingers crossed.
Greetings from across the pond. Your handling tips are so helpful! Thank you. When you say (3:14) if you don't have a greenhouse (so wish I did) you should put them in a sheltered spot in the garden, our winter temps here on the east coast can get down in the 20s or 30sF/-6 to -1C, sometimes lower. Do you think I could winter over a young clematis in a 2 liter pot under an open but roofed east facing porch that sits against my house tucked into an alcove that offers shelter on both ends and gets morning sun as long as I water it a bit?
Very informative, also for bigger plants. I've planted three garden center clematis (Alpina, Montana and Viticella) this spring. Strong 1-2 liter root systems, but only two stems. So I've just pruned them back to the lowest leaf pairs. Hopefully they'll have 4 stems per plant soon, if I manage to keep the slugs away. I wonder how long to let them grow before pruning again, maybe another pruning is possible this year?
My apologies for being so late in replying. gremlins in my computer. You can prune the viticella as often as you like but for a youngish plant I would let it have no more than 6-8 stems. The montana and alpina can also be pruned but you will loose next years flower each time unless you leave pruning until just after they have flowered.
Such a useful video as I bought Pink Champagne from morrison's today and was not sure what to do with it. I am going to plant it in a 10L pot outside but I will take at least one cutting as you have described. Just one question, how to deal with slugs not getting to it (I have read they like young clematis)?
If the plants are inside the greenhouse I use slug pellets but if the plant is big enough for outside I leave it alone . Don’t put stones etc around clematis plants because slugs hide there and then attack young stems at night
