RE: Transplanting Clematis armandii

Kurt, thanks for your response. I am glad the armandii is so rugged. If the
fence can be built around it and if the neighbour agrees (he's not too keen
on plants or trees taking up too much of his space), that is what we will
do.  However, if he doesn't want it on the fence, other than my building an
adjoining structure to hold it, which may or may not work, I will have to
move it.

Have you had any experience in transplanting it?  Have no idea even what the
root system is like, let alone whether it will tolerate a move.

Thanks

Anna Ingre

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 <Subject: Re: Transplanting Clematis armandii
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 <Hi, Anna.  If the fence can be built without actually digging up
 <the plant, I
 <would think you could cut it down to a stump (after it's season
 <of bloom has
 <passed, of course), and it would quickly grow back.  I cut mine back to a
 <seven-foot stump every year after it blooms, and retrain the new
 <growth back
 <over my front porch, as C. armandii blooms only on the past
 <season's growth.
 <
 <Kurt Mize
 <Stockton, California
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