Re: clematis wilt

I've been under the impressions that the species clematis are immune to the
dreaded wilt.
Merri Morgan
zone 5b, WV
----- Original Message -----
From: <Blee811@aol.com>
To: <perennials@hort.net>
Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 3:23 PM
Subject: Re: clematis wilt


>
> 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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