C. Monte Cassino question....enough light?

13 years ago

Hi all

Does the following sound like a good placement ?

Two Monte C. against an almost white color siding. Two 9' high thin metal trellis' that I'll be placing on the one story A frame end of my house, that faces between north and west. It gets no direct sun on the wall until later in the afternoon. It is very bright shade, nonetheless.

Would Monte C. grow well here?

My preference would be red clematis' here. I considered C. Rouge Cardinal but read that they bloom at the top of new growth, leaving a blank bottom.

I'd prefer not to grow dark blue/purple clem., as I have several already. I'm not considering pink or mauve, lavendar, light blue, or white's, as I feel the light colors would not show well against the very light background. Unless I'm being too constrictive?

Comments (2)

buyorsell888
13 years ago
I am not familiar with Monte C. but I have Rouge Cardinal. It is a type III hard prune which blooms on new growth but the bare legs problem would only occurs if you did not hard prune every year. Mine is in a similar bright shade afternoon sun area and does fine. I have it on a 7' trellis next to a 9' trellis and it climbs all the way to the top and flops back down. I do have other plants in this bed but do not have a bare legs problem on any of the type III Clematis in it. Photos taken this year, which is the fourth for the Clematis from gallon pots. This side of the house faces West but the neighbor has an arborvitea (cedar to some) hedge that is over twenty feet tall blocking light.

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stimpy926
Original Author
13 years ago
That helps a lot, thanks BOS
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