Hi! I live in East York and my front lawn has been graced with an unsightly concrete Toronto Hydro pole. I wrapped chicken wire around it and had a trumpet vine growing up it which invaded the lawn, so I…
Hello from Toronto’s East end ( Riverdale ISH area). I have a very sunny yard, sloping southwards and sandy soil…
I have had a Dutchman’s Pipe and I am taking it out as the roots are creeping all over the…
I have Clematis and they are purple and blue colors. I want to mix them with yellow flowers. Is there any yellow flower like Clematis. I have a pole and they are rounding around the pole nicely but would be…
I would like to winterize my two clematis plants. I live in a condo facing east on the 14th level. Each plant is in a resin/plastic tall black container. How do I protect them for over the winter? Do I…
My daughter moved into a house last fall with a huge clematis on the southwest wall of the garage. There were no signs of bloom. We didn’t prune it as we didn’t know the type. This year it did not…
I have been growing clematis on a trellis in full sun for a few years now. My trellis is only 4ft high and I don’t want to increase the height as it will block out the view of the rest…
I have 3 varietals of climbing Clematis X: (a) The President; (b) EVpc035, Reflections; (c) Evipo062 Zara (Dwarf). They all say to “prune hard’ in spring. Please define “hard”, to the ground? above the ground? And “spring”, I assume once…
Should I prune back Clematis to lowest viable bud or highest?…