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- Setting up climbing aids for Clematis expertly - that's how it works
- This climbing aid for Clematis provides Mother Nature
- Keep climbing aids on facades at a distance
- Planters with integrated trellis as a climbing aid
- Tips & Tricks
Setting up climbing aids for Clematis expertly - that's how it works
In order for a clematis to reach the sky, a climbing aid is needed. Creative hobby gardeners have the choice between natural and specially constructed climbing aids. We have compiled some of the best suggestions for you.
This climbing aid for Clematis provides Mother Nature
As petioles, Clematis have the natural ability to pull themselves up on trees and bushes on their own. The Hahnenfußgewächse owe this talent to the popular name Waldrebe. While she quickly finds support on shrubs, a mighty tree trunk of a clematis causes problems if she wants to cling here. Resourceful hobby gardeners give the climbing plant a bit of help:
In order to avoid root competition in the immediate vicinity of natural climbing aids, skilled gardeners plant clematis in a large plastic bucket or masonry vat without soil.
Keep climbing aids on facades at a distance
Thanks to their vigor Clematis enjoy great popularity for the greenery of the facade. Climbing aids are wood trellis, grid and rope systems. On the one hand, wall brackets provide the required stability and at the same time ensure the important distance between climbing aid and wall of 5 to 10 centimeters. Only if the clematis is ventilated at the back of its climbing aid, it remains healthy.
Planters with integrated trellis as a climbing aid
Less vigorous clematis hybrids act as magnificently blooming screens. For this purpose, the specialist trade offers planters that have a built-in trellis. Of particular decorative value are large tubs with integrated rank pyramid or a forged obelisk.
Attach the first tendrils of a clematis to the lower struts of the climbing aid using flower clips. The further way up finds the plant itself. Since the clematis usually tends to vertical growth, occasionally individual shoots should be fixed in a horizontal orientation.
Tips & Tricks
In order for Clematis to thrive healthy and vital over many years on its climbing aid, a roof or roof overhang as a rain cover is ideally located above it. The less moisture reaches the leaves of a clematis, the lower the risk of infection by fungal diseases, such as the clematis wilt.