RE: clematis wilt

Bill,  if you can get your tangutica to grow up into a small tree so that
you can look up into the flowers when they open, it will stop your heart.
Mine was growing up through and across the canopy of an Acer palmatum
'Bloodgood' until the tree died of verticillium wilt (also a big problem -
soil born fungal disease).  The bright red stamens of tangutica are the same
color as the leaves of Bloodgood.

Marilyn Dube'
Natural Designs Nursery
Portland, Oregon


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Of Blee811@aol.com
Sent:	Wednesday, January 15, 2003 12:24 PM
To:	perennials@hort.net
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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