The clematis holds a specific place in a garden. Flower growers appreciate beauty and an opportunity to create the green hedge covered in multi-colored flowers with its help at this plant.
By means of the clematis twisting with the long lianas trees, walls of buildings, fences or just creeping on the ground as a carpet it is possible to give to a garden a unique look. Because of rapid growth of lianas and plentiful blossoming the gardeners call a clematis the king of climbers. Today about 250 types and more than two thousand grades of this surprising liana are known. At the same time it should be noted that grades differ not only with coloring, but also time of blossoming and the extent of colors. For example, the smallest flowers in the diameter make no more than 2.5 cm. The largest can grow to 20 cm and more.
The clematis – a perennial plant, time of its blossoming depends on a look and a grade. For example, some clematises are pleasing to the eye plentiful blossoming in the early spring, others – in the summer. Also grades which blossom till late fall are known. Clematises are unpretentious in leaving, they well grow in the sun and in a penumbra, as a rule, are resistant to various diseases. But at the same time it should be noted that this plant very much loves the fertile, friable, well trained soil and moderate watering.
It is necessary to buy saplings of clematises in specialized flower shops, in the fall and in the spring. But not in its end as young layers of a clematis badly take root and strongly are ill.
All flowers are good – choose as a hobby
Among huge variety of clematises it is possible to find early-flowering grades, summer and autumn. For example, spring flowers plentifully blossom. Among them the most popular Alpine and mountain clematis. And if it is correct to pick up the clematis grades differing on height, ability to a kushcheniye, the extent of colors, your garden will please you in bright colors during everything spring - an autumn season. Hybrid clematises enjoy wide popularity at flower growers. They are loved not only for bright, unusual paint, but also for large flowers which, as well as roses, can blossom in a year several times. But at the same time hybrid plants require bigger attention as are more vulnerable to adverse factors. Hybrids clematises and on growth rate differ. As a rule, they grow much more slowly than other representatives of this beautiful long-term liana.
The highest plants of hybrid varieties reach up to three meters in height.
Grades of a violet clematis (Clematis viticella) are the most resistant to diseases of a root system. It blossoms only on young escapes, the first flowers appear at the end of June.
What to give preference to?
The variety сортогрупп clematises gives to flower growers the chance to use various options for registration of design of a garden. For example, plants with large flowers enjoy wide popularity. Among them - a sortogruppa of Zhakman, Vititsella, Lanuginoz.
Group of Zhakman
The clematis of Zhakman (jackmanii) is considered her ancestor. Several dozen plant varieties which are characterized by semi-ligneous or grassy lianas with long to four meters, escapes, large flowers which in the opened look reach 12-15 cm concern to it. Clematises of this group magnificently, the main time of blossoming – blossom July-September. The group of Zhakman has rich color scale. In it there are violet (Andre Leroy), lilac-pink (Comtesse de Bouchaud), violet-purple (Gipsy Queen), gentle-blue (""Anastasia Anisimova""), reddish-lilac (""Nikolay Rubtsov"") shades.
Vititsella group
Grades of this group are received by crossing of a clematis of violet (viticella) with other representatives of this plant. Flowers of these clematises grow on escapes of the current year, consist of 5 or 6 sepals and on coloring usually happen red, pink, purple tones. The most widespread grades of this group: Ville de Lyon with flowers of a crimson-red shade, Ernest Markham (red). If you want to occupy in the garden a violet clematis, get Etoile Violette, admirers of bright crimson flowers will suit ""Alexandrite"", to fans of light pink tones - Nikitsky.
Group of Lanuginoz
Clematises of group of Lanuginoz (lanuginosa) are formed from a clematis shertisty and long 2-3 meters differ from the previous groups in thinner lianas. Flowers at plants of this look large, with 6-8 sepals, very gentle pastel coloring. Usually flowers of a sortogruppa of Lanuginoz of light, blue or pink tones. Flowers are formed generally on old escapes which need to be cut off and covered for the winter in the fall. The most popular grades of this group of clematises - Blue Gem (blue coloring), Crimson Star (crimson), Ramona (dark-blue). A grade clematis ""Ballerina"" will please you in white colors.
Landing of clematises
Despite unpretentiousness, when landing clematises it is necessary to follow several rules. For example, it is the best of all to put them on the fertile and trained soil. At the same time it is necessary to remember that roots of clematises have to be in a cool. Shanks can carry out reproduction of clematises or division of a bush. If you decided to make multiple copies clematises shanks, in June or in July cut from escapes from a middle part of a bush shanks 10-15 cm long with sheet knot and land in the sand mixed with nutritious earth mix. When shanks take roots (approximately in a month), they will need to be replaced in separate glasses, and then – in containers of the bigger size. In the spring young clematises need to be planted in soil.