Clematis and Climbing Hydrangea Together?
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Comments (5)Hello Bellarosa, Wow your pictures are so lovely! I love your combinations and I loved the photo of Billy Baffin with the nepeta and liatris and daisies down below to hide Billy's knees. Absolutely gorgeous! You should be proud that you have such a lovely home and garden, with a hubby that will actually dig you holes! Wow. Your pictures gave me a breath of summer, since we still have a ways to go before we will be smelling any roses in New England (that we've grown ourselves, anyway!) Tmac96 - I don't grow any of the roses that you ordered, but I do grow the clematis that Bellarosa mentioned and those vines are very easy after the third year. I have a rose garden in the front of my house (sorry no photos like B.R.) in an oval with an obelisk in the center. The obelisk is where the clematis climbs. I have three separate types/colors growing together. Madame Julia Correvon, Etoile Violet and Comptess DiBouchard. Since I'm a "lazy gardener" I cut all the vines down to 12" from the ground when I see the forsythia bloom. Every year this will be a different time, based on the weather. If I had the vines growing on the roses or along with the roses on a trellis, I would cut the vines at the 12" height and simply unravel them from the rose bush, cutting away any pieces or parts that might harm a swelling rose bud. Do a little reading on the types of clematis, A,B, or C or 1,2, or 3. Try to plant the types that get cut to the ground in early spring -- they are easy and very rewarding. (I require - high R.O.I. Return on Investment!!!) It's not so much the cost of the plants, or even the hard hole-digging labor, -- it's the anticipation I can't stand. I love the plants that come back every year bigger and better than ever with hardly any work on my part. Oh! And O yeah, plenty of reading and posting on GardenWEB....See MoreClimbing Hydrangea at Home Depot - ??
Comments (6)Since climbing hydrangeas do not vine but attach themselves by rootlets known as holdfasts, any trellising system, regardless of size, does not make an ideal support. These plants need a wide and preferrably rough surface to adhere to - a stone or brick wall, a wooden fence or a large tree trunk. Plastic or vinyl is not going to cut it. I'd plant a clematis or other true viner. If you have your heart set on a hydrangea, find another, more appropriate location or allow it to mound as a loose-shaped groundcover/shrub. These also get to be large, heavy plants in time. They need supports that can accommodate both their size and weight. Just like growing wisteria on a trellis is not advised, you need a heavy duty support system, which are generally not available premade. If you do build a gazebo-like structure, 4x4's are the smallest dimensioned lumber you should consider for uprights; crosspieces can be smaller....See MoreWould like to see pictures of Quick Fire and Clematis grown together
Comments (9)Little Bas (only one s) if you want to look for it - I got mine from Brushwood nursery, mail order. I think for me there have been a few keys for success: - size the shrub and the clematis well - a large vigorous clematis will smother a shrub that isn't a really vigorous grower with a head start, while shorter clematis, or ones with longer internodes will be easier on the shrubs. - stiff branches are important on the shrub, so that the clematis doesn't pull the shrub out of shape. I may have taken a few more photos this year. I'll look, but it may be a few days since my home internet is down....See MoreClimbing Hydrangea (Hydrangea Petiolaris) for winter privacy
Comments (19)I have frequently attached a 4' trellis to the top of a fence as a line of sight sight screen. With a 4x8 you can increase the fence by 3 to 3.5' taller, and very economically cover 8'. A series of these could do your whole back fence. I attach them by predrilling to not crack trellis wood and using deck screws and electric screwdriver. A climbing hydrangea is slow growing at first. It gets quite woody, very large, and very heavy, like a Wisteria it might break a lighter to mid duty trellis. Honeysuckle 'Scentsation' or a smaller trumpet vine such as 'Indian Summer' may work better and survive in zone 5b (tbey are rated to 4). They drop their leaves, but might block quite well, except in winter. If this was my fence I'd pair Honeysuckle 'Scentsation' with Clematis 'Jackmanii' both have a long season and repeat blooming. That also gives you fragrance and hummingbird draw. The honeysuckle also has nice red berries late in the season for visual impact and the other birds. Both grow fast and together you should get enough vine growth to be a decent Winter block. Here's an internet photo of the in bloom appearance. The light colored honeysuckle really shows up in a twlight garden. And it does get woody too for that forest cottage look. I'm guessing this honeysuckle would cover about 20' linear. And one Clematis half of that? I've actually started this pair on my gazebo entrance....See Morewestes Zone 9b California SF Bay
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