Pruning Group 2 & 3 Clematis || Spring Cleaning My Border 🌷🌷

Hello everyone from Enthusiastic Gardener and it's very windy today as you can see and remember what happened to my camera last time so I'm quite wary. I've got rocks all around the bottom of my tripod because I still haven't bought a new tripod which I said I was going to do and I had to get my phone fixed and gosh I can't let all that so I want to tidy up this area a little bit and I have nine clematis which I planted last summer and when I planted them I knew exactly which one went where and I thought I'm going to remember but of course I haven't remembered and I had to watch my previous video and I've listed from left to right which ones were and I've put down as well I had to look up to see whether they were a group two or a group three because of course the pruning is different and the flowering is different so what I thought I would do I went along and I made little labels for each one with my wonderful little new labeling machine and as you know if you've watched any of my videos you'll know everything's getting labels at the moment and I'm going to put a little label on the trellis of each one and hopefully the label will be covered up with beautiful clematis so you won't even notice it and then I will always know which one it is and on the front of each name I've put a two or a three which is the pruning groups I don't have any ones actually so I'm going to go around and put all the labels on so now we need to do a little bit of pruning they've never been pruned before we're going to start with the group twos because I don't have any group ones and I would just confuse myself totally if I start talking about group ones unnecessarily group twos are the ones that flower from May to June they form their flowers from last year's growth that's why you don't want to cut them right back because you'll cut all the flowers off so what you can do is just tidy up any dead bits and you can prune back to the first set of nice new buds so let's do all the group twos first of all this is a good example of a two because we've got buds growing there quite a lot of buds here I'm just going to cut say for example this here is not doing anything so I will get rid of like little bits like that leave anything with a bud right this is my next group two and you can see there's buds just up there and there's one all up there it does look a little bit of a tangled mess down here so I think what I'll do with this one you can see there's buds right there so I will cut it off just above buds and I'll cut away anything like this that's not doing anything and just tidy this up as best I can but as you can see there are buds on this one and so then we have the group threes and they're the lake flowering ones they will flower mid-summer onwards and for those they will flower on the this year's growth so you can prune those right back hard or you can just follow down to the very first set of nice buds and cut there which is what I am going to try this is a three you can see there's loads of nice buds down there and if we follow it up there are still some more if we follow it up further there's even more however I'm going to cut those off because it's a group three which you can cut right down and the trouble is if you don't prune a group three what you'll end up with is spindly nothingness down here and all the flowers at the top so I'm going to go ahead and I will cut this beautiful one down although it pains me I'm going to go right back and cut off round about here for everything you've got to be cruel to be kind and this plant is going to thank me for it so all this is going actually I think the group threes are the easiest to deal with this is another three yes a three so I'm going to do the same thing we can see buds right up here but I'm going to find the first set of buds which is difficult to see in amongst this salvia in fact these are kind of the first buds this high up so that's where I'll do it now it's raining but I pretty much finished and anyway you get the idea so I'll have to run out here when I can and just do my other couple which are over there and I'm getting soaked so I'm going in it's horrible okay I'm back again after a few days I managed to do the rest of my clematis and it's today it is Sunday and it is officially spring which is most exciting the best best thing of all for us gardeners and gardeners world was on Friday so we've got Monty back in anyway I want to get on with sorting these out salvia hotlips and they looked beautiful last year three of them I'll see if I can find a picture of the gorgeousness that was the salvia hotlips but they got really hit by the frost and they are looking dreadful and I am in two minds whether to take them out completely because normally they'll last another year at least but you have to prune them so I could prune them down to this growth or I could get new ones they're only fiver they look beautiful in their first year not quite so bad in the second year but I think they can't decide what to do these are not attractive and I know that they've got a little while to redeem themselves but life is too short I'm afraid in my garden you only get a short while to prove yourself if not out you go out you go is the answer the right decision there's nothing nice about these anymore we've got oh Rebecca just tidy these up clear those old stems out and apart from it looking a bit untidy because of leaves it is all cleared out really pretty much and I have a little hydrangea here I don't know what sort of hydrangea it is but that's looking gorgeous I'm not I'm just going to I never really because I don't know if it's one for old wood new wood no idea so I'll just take off any stems that don't have any buds on them tidy that up a little bit that's ready to go over here see what that does and then these if you look closely you can see all these lovely little new baby baby leaves coming up so I think I'm going to take up take away all these old ones tidy that up a little bit yes loads of new babies there cut those away this one is called hewker a dark secret it's a very very dark purpley almost black color I'm going to take all these older stems out to reveal all the new ones I pruned my Chinese plumbago which is over there and I have a video already doing that so I didn't do that again for the cameras but that's all done and we are ready to go for the spring and more new planting anyway that's it from me and this whole this whole bed is cleared up and Richard has finally surfaced on the Sunday morning so she's got a few jobs for me lined up yes I have a few jobs for this afternoon I just need to clear this mess away but we've cleaned out this whole bed and ready to go for the spring there's nothing left I'm just having a look we just rip it all out in this house don't we no you do anyway thank you so much for watching I'm Jeanette I'm the Enthusiastic Gardener got a few jobs lined up for Richard he looks a bit too tidy for my liking but thank you so much for watching and I will see you again very very soon bye