Here are some tips for cutting back various varieties based on whether blooms appear on new growth, old growth or both. Pay attention to where the blooms are formed on your clematis vines; that will ...

While you may be snipping the day away in the garden during your crisp fall weekends, when you arrive at your clematis vine you may want to stop and think it over. In fact don the biggest thinking cap ...

Clematis is a lovely perennial vine that climbs, grows, and can sometimes establish a permanent framework for fresh green growth. This beautiful plant lightens up the garden with large, vivid, ...

Pruning clematis correctly will help this vine look its best year after year. Often growing with little care in the right spot, clematis vines will bloom best when trimmed correctly at least once a ...

Q: I have a beautiful Clematis montana that I planted in my garden many years ago, but it’s now got too large and is threatening to pull down an old garden fence. Can I prune it back hard without ...

Clematis are fabulous plants for providing vertical colour on walls, fences, ornamental obelisks and through the branches of trees and shrubs. For the best display you'll need to know when to prune.

The most sociable of climbers, clematis is deservedly called the Queen of Vines. No garden should be without at least two or three. Some gardeners have planted as many as half a dozen at a time to ...

Nobody could call clematis handsome plants during the winter. My old friend Christopher Lloyd used to refer to them as “disembowelled mattresses” at this time of year. But it is during the next few ...

When do I prune my 'Bees' Jubilee' clematis, which flowers in both spring and autumn? Dr John S Cornes, Bristol IT may be helpful to you - and to other readers who are unsure about pruning the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Gardeners are sometimes spoiled for choice. If you look in that essential guide, The RHS Plantfinder, there are ...