Please post photos and details of how you use trees as clematis hosts here. This is a photo by Arlene (Pirl) showing Jackmanii trained with a wire grid to scramble up a tree. Beautiful!

I'm going to do that.Its just wonderful
I also want to train short clems on tree branches stuck in a container.

Isn't it beautiful?! Arlene sent me quite a few photos of clems growing in trees. I need to pull up that folder and post a few more in the morning. When I see her photos, it makes me wish I had more trees! =)

Me too,I wish I had the right kind of trees.I have 20 year old scotch pines and spruces that have been trimmed high.I will wrap thunks with wire for support.

I'm doing the same thing also. I have a tall, tall pine and I've planted a clematis at the base and plan to let it climb up the tree. Good ideas on how to train to climb the tree.

I'll try to remember to get a photo this summer, but I have 2 clems on an espalier apple tree that is only 5 feet tall, with 3 varieties grafted on. I try to get the clems to follow the horizontal lines. We had a late freeze last year so I had no apples, but the clematis bloomed off and on all summer.

Oh, that sounds lovely. Please do post a picture, if you can get one!

I really need to do this with my harry launders walking sticks... give them something else when they are boring during the summer... any suggestions for a 1/2 day afternoon sun area Evey?