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    • Is it too late to prune clematis!

    If I had read clematis care advice before buying a single clematis plant, I would have surely abandoned the purchase altogether.

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    • While I am generally pretty savvy about deciphering plant care guides, even I have to admit that clematis care guides used to leave me scratching my head in frustration. 

    I understood that there are three clematis groups.

    But was that 1, 2, 3? Or A, B, C? How about species clematis? And what group do herbaceous clematis belong to?

    So I went back to my college days and revived an old habit: bullet point lists. If painstakingly making lists helped me process, clarify and remember complex information back then, there’s no reason why it should fail me now. 

    If you’re having trouble with parsing the sometimes confusing (oftentimes contradictory) information about how and when to prune your clematis, scroll down a bit for my simplified clematis cheat sheets.  

    But before I get started, I have to give credit to one clematis pruning method that just made it click for me: the traffic light.

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