3 easy steps on how to grow fall clematis

These romantic, abundant flowering vines look delicate but have many tough varieties that last well into fall. These tips will help you understand and care for your garden Clematis.

Boasting some of the most beautiful flowers of any vine, clematis produces abundant blossoms in a range of colours, including blue, purple, red, pink, yellow, and white.
The most commonly grown types are the large-flowered types of clematis, which have showy star-shaped flowers up to 20 centimetres in diameter.

Clematis vines climb by looping little leaf stalks, or tendrils, around a neighboring branch, wire, stake, trellis, or other thin support. The plants can also be trained to drape over a fence, porch railing, or lamppost.

You can even grow clematis in a large container outfitted with a willow-pole tepee. When the plant is not in flower, the leaves make a lovely screen.

While the large-flowered clematis bloom through the summer, they don’t generally continue flowering into fall, but there are some species with smaller flowers that will continue to give a good display up to quite severe frosts.
When you’re thinking of what will work best in your yard, keep these types of hardy Clematis in mind:

• The ‘Texas Clematis’ is hardier than its name suggests and will thrive in chilly temperatures. The flowers are like little bells, five centimetres long, that may be pendent or upright, and with petals that curve back to reveal the central yellow stamens. Flowering starts in summer and continues well into fall on plants that will reach almost three metres
• 'Duchess of Albany' is a bright pink with darker bands down the middle of each petal.
• 'Gravetye Beauty' is a bright red with flowers like miniature lily-flowered tulips.
• The tough ‘Russian Virgin's’ bower brings a new colour into clematis. The flowers has bright yellow bells about four centimetres wide that turn into fluffy seed heads that last well into winter. They’re very pretty when coated with frost.
• 'Paul Farges' has open, white, four centimetre, star-shaped flowers with fluffy stamens. Unlike the previous fall-flowering clematis that have flowers on individual stems, these grow on branched stems with several blooms on each stalk, making the display very noticeable.

Versatile in small or large yard spaces, these varieties of Clematis will last well into the fall so you can enjoy them for longer. These tips will help you picked the perfect Clematis for your garden design.