It’s not always easy to demystify clematis pruning. Here’s a short list of clematis cultivars, as according to their pruning group. This list includes varieties that thrive in northern gardens located in zones 4 or 5 (USDA 3 or 4). And to better understand clematis pruning, check out this article.
Pruning Group 1 – Spring Flowering Clematis
- ‘Blue Bird’
- ‘Blue Tapers’ (syn.: ‘Cyanea’)
- ‘Burford White’
- ‘Frankie’
- ‘Jan Lindmark’
- ‘Joe Zary’
- ‘Maidwell Hall’
- ‘Markham’s Pink’
- ‘Pamela Jackman’
- ‘Rosy O’Grady’
- ‘Rosy Pagoda’
- ‘Ruby’
- ‘Snowbird’
- ‘White Columbine’
- ‘Willy’
Pruning Group 2 – Early Large-flowered Clematis
- ‘Andromeda’
- ‘Blue Explosion’
- ‘Charmaine’ (Syn.: ‘Evipo022’)
- ‘Chevalier’ (Syn.: ‘Evipo040’)
- ‘Countess of Lovelace’
- ‘Diamond Ball’
- ‘Doctor Ruppel’
- ‘Duchess of Edinburgh’
- ‘Elsa Späth’
- ‘Endellion’ (Syn.: ‘Evipo076’)
- ‘Guernsey Cream’
- ‘Hakuookan-yae’
- ‘Henryi’
- ‘H F Young’
- ‘Horn of Plenty’
- ‘Innocent Blush’
- ‘nnocent Glance’
- ‘Isago’
- ‘Jan Pawel II’ (Syn.: ‘John Paul II’)
- ‘John Warren’
- ‘Josephine’ (Syn.: Evijohill’)
- ‘Kakio’ (Syn.: ‘Pink Champagne’)
- ‘Kitty’ (Syn.: ‘Evipo097’)
- ‘Lady Northcliffe’
- ‘Mevrouw Le Coultre’ (Syn.: Madame Le Coultre’)
- ‘Miss Bateman’
- ‘Multi Blue’
- ‘Nelly Moser’
- ‘Ninon’ (Syn.: ‘Evipo052’)
- ‘Niobe’
- ‘Parisienne’ (Syn.: ‘Evipo019’)
- ‘Piilu’
- ‘Rebecca’ (Syn.: ‘Evipo016’)
- ‘Red Star’
- ‘Rhapsody’
- ‘Snow Queen’
- ‘Souvenir du Capitaine Thuilleaux’ (Syn. : ‘Captain Thuilleaux’)
- ‘Starry Nights’
- ‘Sunset’
- ‘Taiga’
- ‘The President’
- ‘The Vagabond’
- ‘Tudor’
- ‘Veronica’s Choice’
- ‘Viva Polonia’
- ‘Vyvyan Pennell’
- ‘Wildfire’
Pruning Group 3 – Late Large-flowered Clematis
- ‘Barbara Harrington’
- ‘Betty Corning’
- ‘Comtesse de Bouchaud’
- ‘Duchess of Albany’
- ‘Ernest Markham’
- ‘Étoile Violette’
- ‘Hagley Hybrid’ (Syn.: ‘Pink Chiffon’)
- ‘Huldine’
- ‘Jackmanii’
- ‘Jackmanii Alba’
- ‘Jackmanii Superba’
- ‘Jolly Good’ (Syn.: ‘Zogojo’)
- ‘Juuli’
- ‘Kardynal Wyszynski’
- ‘Kermesina’
- ‘Kugotia’ (Syn.: ‘Golden Tiara’)
- ‘Madame Édouard André’
- ‘Madame Julia Correvon’
- ‘Margaret Hunt’
- ‘Mikelite’
- ‘Minuet’
- ‘Nubia’ (Syn.: ‘Evipo079’)
- ‘Paul Farges’ (Syn.: ‘Summer Snow’)
- ‘Perrin’s Pride’
- ‘Pink Fantasy’
- ‘Princess Diana’
- ‘Purpurea Plena Elegans’
- ‘Romantika’
- ‘Rouge Cardinal’
- ‘Saphyra Indigo’ (Syn.: ‘Cleminov 51’)
- ‘Sea Breeze’
- ‘Stasik’
- ‘Sweet Summer Love’
- ‘Venosa Violacea’
- ‘Ville de Lyon’
- ‘Warszawska Nike’ (Syn.: ‘Warsaw Nike’)
Hello from B.C.
I find that, as summers get hotter, my clematis don’t do as well. Is there a clematis that can take more heat than others? I prefer dark pink , purple, blue. I would prefer not to change to another vine; but if I had to would you recommend one?
Cheers,
Marnie
I have a small white fall flowering clematis- what group does it belong?
At the top of this article there is a link “check out this article”. It should answer your question.