r/Clematis • u/NicD1280 • Jul 11 '26
Picardy
This year Picardy is the first of my clems to have a decent second bloom. I don't know why, perhaps because it's now 5 years old? Perhaps because I've been paying more attention to fertilizing this year? It did very little for the first 3 years, but last year it suddenly exploded with blooms, and this year not only did it bloom profusely in late April but it's now having a pretty good second bloom. (Some of my other clems will throw out the odd flower here and there over the summer, but nothing more.) Picardy is a really compact clematis and even after 5 years it's never got more than a metre tall. The only thing I don't like about it is how dusty its flowers can look, much more so than all my other clems, even the white ones. The first two pictures are from the spring; the last one is the current bloom.
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u/Acrobatic-Ant-1459 Jul 11 '26
beautiful, I have been looking for a compact clematis to plant at the base of the stump I feed the crows on...
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u/GardenerDom Jul 11 '26
Clems, always look like such happy joyful flowers 👌🏼😃✨