to you lovely souls who care to check this... i was called out to Galveston for disaster relief work with my church. I will not be back until after the 10th of October. I still will like to trade. I just wont be able to send any out till after i return. I will be working in a kitchen and i understand it will be a ton of HARD work so i may need a few days to recoop but i still will get your trades out. Thank you for understanding!! Tanya

Voles or gophers - I doubt a woodchuck would do so.

It will not root in water. You can try making fresh wounds and dipping root hormone powder, but I think that branch is too big for that even.

I grow alot of type 3 clematis on a cedar hedge. I like to use the type 3 because I can remove all the dead vines in the fall and the hedge looks neat and tidy all winter. You could use several varieties of clematis that bloom at different times to give you flowers on the hedge all summer long. My earliest type 3 vine to bloom is Hagley hybrid(pink). It blooms in May-June for me. Perle de Azure(blue) and most of the viticellas bloom July and August. Some of the species varities like sweet autumn clematis(white) bloom in September. By using different varieties you can have clematis flowers in bloom spring through fall. There are hundreds of varieties to choose from. When I planted my clematis I sunk 5 gallon buckets with the bottoms removed into the soil and planted my clematis in those. This kept the hedges dense root system away from the clematis roots so they could get established. When you water and fertilize the clematis you know they are getting the nutrients and water instead of the hedge. They have really grown well as they don't have to compete with the hedges root system. Karen