Dear Helen: Are there nonvining types of clematis? Dear C.L.: Yes. I have three in my garden. The one I bought as a plant, about 10 years ago at a local nursery, is Clematis recta (ground clematis).

You can grow clematis in the ground or in containers, and by planting varieties from the diverse groups that flower at different times of the year, you could be enjoying their blooms for many months.

Clematis are beautiful, versatile vines, often referred to as the queen of flowering vines. There are more than 250 species of clematis with several hundred cultivars. Not all of these will grow in ...

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Q. I need to move a large, purple-flowered clematis vine to another location in my landscape. What tips do you have? A. Moving a large clematis vine is a risky process – even riskier during the heat ...

Summer weed priority: No seeds! You’ll never stop all weeds. Even if you pull or kill every last weed in the yard and mulch religiously, some new weeds are still going to find a way to pop up. You can ...

Question: Carol, I'm hoping you are able to provide advice about pruning passionflower vines and clematises. I'm hoping it is OK to prune them in the spring. Both vines have a lot of wild (some dead) ...

There were years and years when it was said that clematis wouldn’t grow in Southern California. Like a lot of horticultural advice we get, it turns out it wasn’t true. I didn’t discover the untruth, ...

Well, these truly are the dog days of summer. It is still hot, some days really humid, and every now and then not a bad day at all. Without knowing how many nice days we are going to have left, spend ...