Clematis 'H.F. Young'

Towery

13 years ago

Anyone tried Clematis 'H.F. Young' or similar as a rambling ground cover?

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bonitamariposa
13 years ago
Yes I have...it's done very well in my zone. What zone are you in?

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Towery
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13 years ago
Beautiful!!! Thanks for sharing.
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My HF Young in my garden does fade badly. It is in full sun though and your experience with it may be different depending on where you site it!
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HF Young is a type 2 prune clematis, so that it only gets a relatively light pruning after its spring bloom. I think it would be difficult to prune the hawthorne around the HF Young vines. It would be better to put a type 3 (hard prune) clematis on the hawthorne since it gets cut back hard during the winter and put HF Young somewhere else. It is a gorgeous clematis, worth finding a spot to plant it. On the other hand, mine often gets frozen back to the snow line, so if needed, I guess you could treat it as a type 3 and prune it back when you prune the hawthorne. You can see what others from warmer zones think about that. Here is my HF Young in a year when it started its growing season at only about 1 1/2 feet. From June 5, 2012
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Randy, although you don't have to prune HF Young, you may find in your hotter zone that it will get severely browned out in the middle of the summer regardless of how much water you give it. If this happens, then you can cut it back by at least half, keep it watered and fertilized and you will more than likely get a totally new flush of blooms late in the summer. Last year, with the drought in the southeast, most of my type II clematis, which the President falls into, were severely browned out by the end of the summer. In January, when I prune my clematis, I treated all of my type IIs as IIIs and cut them back almost to the ground. They all came back up and bloomed just wonderfully for me this spring. Clematis don't read books and often do things that defy the rules about pruning that are written about them. Use your common sense and learn to experiment with your clematis and you might be surprised to find how many times you can get your type II clematis to rebloom. I know that Jeanne who lives in Texas and does this can support this idea!
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pippi21
13 years ago
How do you do that? Just not put anything there for it to climb on?
pippi21
10 years ago
I treated myself to my own Mother's Day Gift this morning. I've been wanting another clematis and last week I saw a table full of beautiful clemaits at Harris Teeter..like a soft periwinkle color and while DH was in for p.t. session this morning, I went back to Harris Teeter to see if they still had any of those beauties left. Sure enough they still had about 6 left and I picked over them for the best. It already has a lot of growth on it. I didn't know which variety it was till I got it home and went to water it and found the cardboard plant marker saying it was H.F. Young. Didn't know which group it was in but was hoping for Group#3 but it is in group#2 . I fed it MG liquid solution and sat it in saucer with water and out of the sun till I can get it planted. Just went to HD for the wrought iron trellis I wanted. Many years agoI had a formal gown the color of this clematis bloom and I fell in love with that color.
mnwsgal
10 years ago
How nice that the blossom color brings back good memories for you. Happy Mother's Day.

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