The film advises on methods of choosing and planting Clematis in the garden and how to provide conditions for its best growth and beautiful bloom over many years. You will find out how to select a site and how to water, drain and fertilize it.
Early in spring the main pruning of Clematis should be performed. It is a vital factor of successful culture of these beautiful plants. The film shows how to prune correctly different types of Clematis to keep them healthy and to enjoy their magnificent blooms.
Sweet Autumn Clematis is the latest-flowering Clematis in our climate zone 6. It comes from Japan but gained most popularity in the U.S. In Central Europe it starts blooming in mid-October and continues till mid-November.
We often secure our property grounds with nets, lattices or cement constructions. It's rarely a pretty sight, besides, a passerby can still look in. Such constructions can be covered with climbers to create a greenery wall, some kind of hedge.
Climbers are exceptional plants for many reasons. They can be low-growing – at below 10 cm or very high, up to a dozen meters or even several dozen meters.
In every small or large garden, in urban area and public greenery they can find a place and enrich it with a mass of foliage improving the ambience, with flowers and fruit that are sometimes very decorative and edible for people and birds.
Climbing Hydrangea is a valuable garden vine. It uses aerial rootlets to climb over tree trunks, walls, and other supports. It’s a very hardy plant. Without support, it trails over the ground, creating ground cover. It’ll bloom – its flowers are honey-scented.
Read more: Climbing Hydrangea, Japanese Hydrangea vine - queens of the shadow
Schisandra chinensis is a very valuable garden vine. It's native to north China and Siberia and it withstands temperatures reaching 35-40°C below zero. It can be grown in every garden and everyone can use its fruit that's quite tasty, but above all it's known for its medicinal qualities.
To get Wisteria to bloom profusely you need to prune it regularly. The film shows how to perform the springtime pruning and which plants to choose to be certain they'll bloom soon.
Wisteria is a beautiful garden climber flowering in spring – typically in May. There are cultivars of all kinds of color. To ensure abundant flowering, strong pruning is required. The basic pruning is performed in summer, at the end of July or the beginning of August.