Re: clematis wilt
- Subject: Re: clematis wilt
- From: B*@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 15:23:50 EST
In a message dated 1/15/2003 1:44:26 PM Eastern Standard Time,
mygarden@easystreet.com writes:
> Clematis wilt is a problem here in Oregon. Do you have such a thing where
> you garden? The vines will collapse and turn brown and about the time you
> think it is dead and gone forever, here will come new shoots out of the
> ground. The large flowered cultivars seem to be the most susceptible. I
> can't think of a small flowered one that has does this. I love C. 'Nelly
> Moser', but she does this almost ever year.
===>We get it occasionally, Marilyn. I haven't studied up on the cause of it
but I suspect once you have it in one location, that particular clematis will
always be susceptible to it. The best thing to do, I've read, is to cut off
the infect part of the plant and wait for the plant to put out new shoots,
just as you've observed they do.
On the other hand, C. montana>
> rubens has never wilted and is smothered with flowers every spring. I've
> never had a viticella, tangutica or texensis wilt either, but some folks
> may
> have experienced it.
===>I haven't paid particular attention, but now that you mention it, I
haven't seen the wilt on viticella--boy these things are vigorous and covered
in bloom. I planted my first tangutica last fall, and I understand they can
be rampant as well, but I'm looking forward to those little yellow bells.
Bill Lee
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