Luxurious blooming clematis can decorate the most unsuitable and homely area of the household. It is this decorative shrub that you see in perspective when planting a sapling. But if you do not carry out timely, and most importantly, the correct pruning - the vine is transformed into a chaotic green weed.
Common Clematis Trimming Rules
In order for the plant to enjoy lush and long flowering, it is necessary to contribute to the formation of its branched full roots.
To do this, you need to cut the seedling cardinally, leaving 3 buds below. Crop vine creeping fast. That is why in a few weeks it should be shortened again.
Experienced gardeners claim that in the first year of life, the height of properly trimmed clematis should not exceed 40 cm.
Did you know? The word "clematis" is derived from the Greek klema, which denotes a liana. In the people the nickname "clematis" has firmly grown to the shrub, probably because of the strong smell of dug up roots or curved seeds.
Care of repetitive plants depends on the types of clematis for pruning. There are 3 groups, as well as seasonal, formative and sanitary.
Always take care of the plants with sharp inventory. Sections should be oblique so that they do not accumulate water, approximately 7 mm higher from the kidneys. Starting a new bush, do not forget to disinfect the shears.
If you keep the growth of shoots correctly, after two years, fastidious culture will thank many colors. Let's see what clematis pruning groups exist.
Did you know? The period of flowering clematis can be extended by cutting the most powerful shoots.
The first group of pruning, how to trim early flowering clematis
These include fine-grained wild varieties, as well as Macropetal, Patents, Armandi, Montana, large-flowered Jacakman hybrids, Texas and Oriental clematis. They bloom on old branches from May to July. In the spring they bloom on last year’s branches.
Many gardeners claim that early flowering clematis does not need pruning. Caring for them comes down to removing old, damaged, dead or weakened sprouts after the petals have fallen.
Too overgrown shrubs are sheared, not sparing. In clematis that grow near buildings, shoots are left no higher than 20 cm, in old plants - 50 cm. This procedure is done so that future inflorescences open at eye level.
If clematis of this group is not pruned in early spring, the plant will lose its shape and will continue to sprout only on the old vine.
As a result, there will be an immediate exposure of its lower part and flowering only on the upper, inaccessible to the eye shoots. Novice flower growers should not forget that with the help of pruning can be adjusted not only the shape of the bush, but also the location of flowers.
When to trim
In the first two years of the growing season, clematis is pruned in the spring, and in the third year it is cut in the summer when it blooms.
If you have time to form strong shoots on a young sapling in late May - early July, then in August the first bloom is possible.
During January and February, they cut all the stems on second-year bushes, leaving a growth point on each of them.
To prevent the plant from spoiling the frosts, it needs to be well mulled for the winter.
How to trim
For clematis of the first group of pruning, first of all, the main old branches fixed to the supports should be shortened by half. When the bush blooms, cut the vine to one pair of buds from the place of their formation.
The following year, in June, it is important to remove those shoots that bloomed in the spring, leaving a few buds from the previous branching. Creepers of this group produce flowers on newly formed growths.
All clematis during pruning for the winter remove a weak vine and cut the bush no higher than 1 m. Be sure to cover the plant.
The second group of pruning (early summer-flowering)
These plants bloom in spring in the matured vine and in summer in the young. The varieties "Florida", "Lanuginosa", "Patents", woolly clematis and most hybrids that produce flowers in May-June, as well as in August-September, fell here.
When to prune
Pruning clematis group 2 is their cutting in late autumn. It is best to take a secateur in October - November. This is due to the fact that the ovary is formed on last year’s branches.
Trimming technology
Clematis pruning of the second group is considered to be troublesome. The first of the season, starting from the second year, is very gentle. Shrubs are sheared in June, when the vine will drop flowers.
Cut off shoots with seedlings. After the second flowering, branches are radically cut, leaving no more than 1 m from the ground.
Important! Clematis of the second group, once every five years, is severely sheared for the winter to increase branching and pomp.
The third group of pruning: how to trim the flowering clematis
Bushes of this group are, probably, in each garden. There are diverse, oriental, hybrid clematis of the Texensis and Vititella varieties, as well as numerous purple, large-flowered hybrids and even grassy species.
Blue Clematis, loved by many, also belong to the third pruning group. They all bloom from July and later.
When cropping begins
Clematis of the third group pruning pruning shears once a year in the fall, because the flowers appear next summer on young shoots.
How to prune plants
Making pruning in the third way, clematis bush should be cut to approximately 30 cm height, leaving 2-3 pairs of buds.
What to do if the pruning group is unknown: combined clematis pruning
Identify groups of lianas can still be in the store. Usually on the packaging of seedlings about this report. But if your garden already adorns the clematis bush of an unknown group, which, moreover, has never bloomed, how to find out how to cut it?
This plant is needed combined pruning. It is also applied to hybrid varieties, which are obtained as a result of crossing different lianas.
In order to avoid mistakes, such clematis need to cut the vine mercilessly in early spring: 1-2 internodes from the ground, and after the first flowering to rejuvenate the bush to remove the branches, which are more than three years.
Important! When combined pruning bloom first old shoots, and then - young.
