Amateur Gardening

Pruning early clematis

THERE is a clematis for almost every time of year and although we are in the quiet zone at the moment, between the end of the wintertime show and early summer flowering, there are still jobs to be done.

As ever, the old ‘Freckles’ that garlands our kitchen window flowered beautifully this winter, cheering the dark months

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