Clematis just will not grow???

Question

I bought a perfectly healthy clematis from a local nursery. I took it home and planted it the next day, making sure I watered it well. It is planted between two hostas. It grew enough for a few days to wrap around a phone wire on the outside of the house, then it died. All the leaves withered up & turned brown, except the bottom 6 or 7 leaves. I have it staked like the ones that were int he nursery garden.

I live in Zone 5. My neighbors have one in their yard and it grows beautifully.

What can I do to save my clematis?!?!?!

ALSO my bleeding heart is yellowing... still very erect and not wilting, just yellowing...

My hostas and dahlias lavender and glads are doing well, just not my clematis and bleeding hearts??

Answer 1

We ordered some clemaitis and have had better luck with them in the partial shade. the ones we put out in full sun burned up..clematis also likes lime.

Answer 2

ask your neighbors

Answer 3

bleeding hearts sometimes go dormant during the hottest time of the summer

the clematis may have a damaged stem

Answer 4

I think your clematis could have gone in shock I had one do this to me a couple of years ago but it died all the way to the ground but it actually came back and bloomed with one flower on it that same year so it sounds like you did everything you were supposed to so just keep it up remember the roots are always alive with a perennial. As for your bleeding heart it should be done blooming by now and yes sometimes with the heat they do tend to turn yellow and start to die. There time is done for this season. So there is really nothing you can do except let it take its course. This is a plant that you need to plant a late season plant in front of so by the time it starts dieing another plant is growing and will bloom late like baby's breath or Rebecka. Keep up the good work is sounds like you are doing everything you are supposed to.

Answer 5

It takes a clematis a good couple of years to get established, it will not flower the first year, be patient even though it died back, it will come back next year. In the fall cut it back to ground level

As for your bleeding heart, they bloom in the spring and die back in the summer , remove dead foliage. They will come back just as beautiful next spring.