A Gardeners Forum Forums General Discussion The Plants and Flowers Forum Help! Is my clematis ruined?

Hello I am new to this forum, and gardening too. I purchased a house in the late summer of last year and found a mystery vine by the front door. Turns out it is a clematis. Today being the first OK day in Syracuse, NY in a while, I decided to trim it up a bit (advice I had seen from various webpages online). I trimmed it to about 2 feet from the ground. I then returned to my computer worried that i just ruined this beautiful fall flowering vine!!

Will my clematis return??

thank you for your help!
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I think so ..Right now my one is putting out little leaves.. We are zone 5 here.....Yours should be soon.. Depends what the name is.. Mine is Nelly Mosser.

Probably missed spelled.

You need to know which one it is to know when for trimming.It's a good guess that being yours blooms in fall.you may get blooms.I think most for them bloom on old growth.

I grow Nelly Mosser too.she's a hottie!
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Gotcha......

She is on old growth.. NOne of the others did this well.
But my Ohio sister had gorgous ones on the arches .. It had to be old growth..