Vines

Vines offer versatile landscaping options, ranging from privacy screening to vertical accents. Popular choices include clematis, wisteria, virginia creeper, and engelman ivy each with unique features and growth habits. Considerations include growth speed, support requirements (like trellises or walls), and the desired effect (shade, privacy, or color).

Clematis

Clematis need to be pruned regularly to prevent them becoming a tangled mass of stems. Without pruning the plant will become bare at the base, with all of the flowers high up on the plant. Regular pruning encourages strong growth and flowering and keeps the plant within bounds.

But how and when to prune? Clematis are classified into three groups according to their pruning requirements, according to whether their flowers are produced on the previous year's growth or that of the current year.

All of the clematis listed on our Plant Database are listed with their pruning category.

If you're not sure what type of clematis you have, observe when it flowers. If it flowers before June, it will just need a light pruning; if it flowers after June it will need a harder prune late fall.

For more information on pruning, visit https://www.clearviewhort.com/pruning/