RE: fried clematis

I can tell you all that clematis need REGULAR DEEP WATERING for the first several years.  Once they are about 3-5 years old, I make no special efforts on watering and they are fine.  

-----Original Message-----
From: Denise Leonard [d*@equinox.shaysnet.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 5:28 PM
To: perennials@hort.net
Subject: Re: fried clematis


Mine seem to do this yearly.  They always come back in the spring, but by
mid to late summer, they look dead - dried out and brown.  I just plant
morning
glories around them.  They come into their own about the time the clematis
look awful.  I suspect that it has something to do with the drought and
heat, although mine have been watered with a soaker hose the past two
summers.


Denise Leonard
Tanstaafl Farm
Greenfield, MA
dal@shaysnet.com


On Tue, 10 Sep 2002 Blee811@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 9/10/02 3:52:22 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> corgilover@wi.rr.com writes:
>
>
> > I planted it two years ago on the south side of my pale cream brick
> > home (feet in the shade under a nearby bush).  It began to climb
> > nicely in the spring and got about 5 feet high and then literally
> > fried in the heat (both stems and all leaves are crispy brown).  It
> > was watered regularly, but I think the heat radiating off the brick
> > toasted it.
> >
> > Anyone care to speculate on my chances of it coming up again?
> >
>
> I've got a couple of clematis that look like this too. One started going
> before the rain stopped. There is a wilt that infects clematis--don't ask me
> the scientific aspects of it--but I've read that the thing to do is cut the
> dead parts back to the ground, put a little compost around, water well, and
> it will regrow.
>
> I guess we won't really know for sure until next year whether we've got
> plants that have recovered from clematis wilt or dead clematis.
> Bill Lee
>
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