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I have C macroptela "Blue Bird" (I think - tag long lost) It has been very hardy here even surviving two moves. I like that it does not need hard pruning to do well because I want the vines up as a screen on my fence all winter.
Looking for another Clem and hoping for a larger flower I bought Jackman's superb this spring. Reading about it on two web sights just now I wonder if I got misinfo when I bought it. The website said
zone 5 and it indicated hard pruning.
I was already concerned because foliage has been reddish and slightly unhealthy looking most of summer.
Do those of you from cold zones think it will survive for me?
Does it need to be pruned way back?
If answers are no, yes, do you have suggestions of something better I could get?
Note re macropetela.
The last move, last summer, did not go so well. I had a limited space to plant in (hole in a concrete mow strip under a fence line) and did not get it in the ground as deep as I should have. It came back from last winter and put on modest growth this year. But reading another thread with much talk of top dressing, I'm worried. How bad is it to have top of root out of soil? Should i steel myself to lose it and start looking for a replacement?
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