Clematis

They fit into three pruning categories: Spring flowering types are tackled later on, after flowering in spring. Large flowered types can be lightly trimmed over now to an existing framework of older wood. Small flowered clematis like this Viticella ‘Madame Julia Correvon’ are the easiest – whack them off a foot above ground level and heave off last year’s growth to uncover whatever poor shrub they engulfed last year.