The clematis is grassy or ligneous perennial plant from family of crowfoot family.
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The site for landing of plant has to be lit, without drafts. The soil needs to be used loamy, fertile, well fertilized and with the system of drainage. It is possible to plant plants in the spring and in the fall.
- It is necessary to dig out hole of 60*60*60 in size, on bottom of hole to pour out crushed stone or drainage of 15 cm.
- For fertility of the earth it is possible to add mix from several buckets of compost, sand, peat and dolomite powder.
- Be near to put support for plant.
- On layer of crushed stone to pour out earth hillock, to lay sapling on it, roots accurately to decompose and powder with the paved way without filling up hole to surface of 10 cm.
- To water plant and to zamulchirovat the remained 10 cm about clematis peat.
- When landing clematises to leave distance of not less than a meter between them.
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- Clematis it is necessary it is abundant to water several times a week.
- To mulch the soil after watering by peat, humus or moss, deleting with row the growing weeds.
- In the first year the plant does not need to be fertilized, and from the second and the next years it is necessary to feed up during active growth by nitrogen fertilizers, during forming of buds to use potash fertilizers, and after blossoming to feed up phosphoric.
- In the spring once it is necessary to water plant with weak solution of lime.
- At rainy summer season it is necessary to pour wood ashes on trunk.
Cutting
It is possible to cut off clematises during growth, if necessary. Depending on grade of clematis it is necessary to cut off in different ways.
- Lianas which reach height of 3 meters need to be cut off, leaving only small escapes. Carry out after they fade.
- Shrubby lianas up to 2.5 meters high cut off at the height from 50 cm to 1 meter, leaving up to 5 pair kidneys.
- Large lianas with the escapes reaching 6 meters need to be cut off several times one season prior to ground level.