Here are some tips for planting clematis in your home flower garden:
- Start planting by working up about a foot by foot area.
- Clematis like their roots to be kept cool. When you plant clematis, find 3 or 4 flat rocks about the size of a soft ball only flatter. Place them around the base of your plant. Your clematis will love you for this!
- Clematis don't like soggy soil, adding pearlite, hydroton or lecca to soil can increase the oxygen holding capacity of your dirt.
- Keep the area in your flower bed around your clematis free of weeds that will rob the nutrients from your soil that your clematis needs.
- Once a week or so, when the color of your clematis leaves and blossoms looks less than bright, add a tablespoon of epsom salts to a gallon of water and use it to fertilize your clematis. You can do this in addition to your normal fertilizer regimen.
