Confused about evergreen/deciduous climbing plants

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Casey76

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Confused about evergreen/deciduous climbing plants
« on: December 03, 2010, 12:47 »
Are they deciduous or not?  or does it depend on the variety?

I have one passiflora which dropped it's leaves ages ago (or died lol!) and one which is still going great guns.

Also, for evergreen honeysuckle, is it normal that they it is still flowering in december?

I also have a clematis that was still flowering a couple of weeks ago... I thought clematis should be cut back every year?

Oh, I'm so confused!

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savbo

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Re: Confused about evergreen/deciduous climbing plants
« Reply #1 on: December 03, 2010, 13:35 »
clematis is a tricky one, there are distinct groups that have different pruning requirements...

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Re: Confused about evergreen/deciduous climbing plants
« Reply #2 on: December 03, 2010, 14:18 »
Some plants are neither completely deciduous nor evergreen. I have a semi-evergreen honeysuckle which loses some but not all of its leaves in winter depending on the severity of the winter (no comment!)

I'm sure your conditions in Alsace are very different from here so your plants will no doubt just do what comes naturally in your climate.

Montana clematis is not normally pruned every year; you would be best advised to Google your particular variety because you don't want to be removing next year's flowering shoots! (It does sound like a late-flowering type which should be cut back quite hard after flowering as it has plenty of time to produce new shoots to flower on later next year.)
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Re: Confused about evergreen/deciduous climbing plants
« Reply #3 on: December 05, 2010, 21:12 »
Normally, early flowering clematis should be pruned after flowering and late flowering clematis are pruned in the spring.



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