This summer our ac went out. The footprint of the new ac unit was a bit larger, necessitating the removal of a couple trellises and the corresponding clematis.
Truthfully, that poor clematis was traumatized long before. It bloomed late spring. Some years it was spared the wrath of the previous ac’s wind, but many years I had to make a decision – humans fade from the heat, or the clematis fade from the wind off the ac. Believe me, I held out many years. Every year I thought, “I need to move that.”
With the decision now made for me, and the option of moving it up north on the horizon, I cut it to 1 foot off the ground, and packed the trellises to go up north. Now it is time to move the clematis.
Pack your soil, clematis. It’s time to go north. Yes, the growing zone is fine.
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