Clematis as Companion Plants -- Selecting your new plants -- Horizontal or vertical? -- Clematis by the pound -- A word about structures -- Ten best clematis for beginners -- Groomed to Perfection: Pruning, Tidying, Grooming, and Manipulating Bloom Time -- The traditional advice about pruning -- Pruning in the real world -- Would you repeat that? -- Having it both ways -- To deadhead or not to deadhead? -- Voices of experience -- My best advice about pruning? -- Ten clematis not recommended for beginners -- Clematis with Each Other -- The highest goal to which a gardener can aspire -- Pruning partnerships -- Fair-weather friends -- Living large -- Summer's small wonders -- Better late ... -- Ten companionable clematis -- Clematis with Roses -- Once-blooming roses -- Taller than advertised -- Finding the right partners -- Coming up -- Specifically speaking -- World tour of species roses -- Ten favorite clematis for roses -- Ten favorite roses for clematis -- Clematis with Woody Shrubs -- The conifers -- Welcome to rhody world -- Broad-leafed evergreens -- Decidedly deciduous -- Va-va-viburnum -- The bosy of summer -- Trees for small gardens -- Random shrubs -- Ten clematis that love shrubs -- The Herbaceous Clematis -- The incredible integrifolia -- Larger integrifolia progeny -- The Ukrainian sisters -- "Viticellic" integrifolias -- Audacious integrifolia hybrids -- Clematis as filler flowers -- The heracleifolia shrubs -- To stake or not to stake -- Wandering further afield -- Ten best herbaceous clematis -- Clematis with Herbaceous Perennials -- The Ranunculaceae -- A bit of debunking -- Sharing the shade -- Sunny dispositions -- Hardy geraniums -- Filling a tall order: late-season combinations -- Ten clematis to partner with herbaceous perennials -- Annuals, Other Vines, and Anybody Else We've Missed Thus Far -- We're all vine -- Why not annuals? -- Clematis with ornamental grasses? -- Ten unusual companions for clematis -- Growing Clematis in Containers -- Not all clematis like pot life -- Going to pot -- About the soil -- Draping versus climbing -- Supplying support -- Supporting players -- Planting and maintaining containerized clematis -- Cultivars comfortably contained -- Clematis that like troughs or sharp-draining soil -- Double large-flowered hybrids for containers -- Early large-flowered hybrids for containers -- Small-flowered hybrids for containers -- Garden Design: The Big Picture -- Set dressing: the background -- Clematis underfoot -- Fabulous focal points -- Selections for the seasons -- My ten favorite clematis -- The Care and Feeding of Clematis: Planting, Watering, Fertilizing, Common Pests and Diseases -- The Common Clematis Groups.
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