Clematis hirsutissima in the Crevice Garden

[Maggi Young]

Yippee!  Just got a great package of seed from Kristl.......well, you didn't think I was ONLY going to order the Clematis, did you?........ So, the task now is to get Clematis hirsutissima growing and flowering as well as  Kristl's does, in a crevice in Aberdeen! 

[Kristl Walek]

Today is a "Clematis lining-up" day at my end--and as soon as my camera battery charges up, I will explain what that means....and will also give you a pictorial of my preferred method of germinating this genus.

There are 8-10 flats of C. hirsutissima at the moment (just past the radicle-emergence stage), somewhere under 1,000 plants. And don't even ask---the real estate sign if getting stuck in the snow mountain early next week, and here I am propagating thousands of plants....perhaps my last thrust at staying connected with this garden?

With the over 50cm of snow received last weekend, we are now close to breaking the historical seasonal record of 444cm- just around 410cm has fallen this far, and more keeps coming...and coming....and coming....

[ChrisB]

Just suddenly thought, if I had enough money, that's what I should do, buy Kristl's place then I'd be sure to get a flowering C. hirsutissima  .  Hubby would love all that snow too.  But I have taken the easy option Maggi, Sue managed to locate one for me (and herself of course  at Hythe Alpines, so I'm getting a plant and its going to be planted between rocks beside my pond, which should mean, even with my sandy soil, that there is moisture at the roots all the time.  Reckon I have a 50-50 chance of flowering it.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

I brought a C. hirsutissima from the Czech Republic last week and was avidly looking for information about how to grow it.
Google lead me to this thread, prooving once again what an incomparable source of useful information this Forum is !!!!
I'm a happy chappy ! 

[Ulla Hansson]

I grow Clematis hirsutissima in my crevice, in pure sand. I have sown the plants with seed from Kristl. It is now the third year that they are to flower. They stand in a southwesterly direction.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Many thanks Ulla ! 

[ian mcdonald]

The Clematis Society used to have a stand at the Harrogate Show. They sell packets of seed, many of which are desirable species.

[Vincent]

I too have just acquired a plant and googling it, I ended up on my favourite website - the SRGC forum! Thank you Kristl for the great pictures and very valuable information. I shall give it a place with a deep, loamy root run.