{"id":8005,"date":"2022-03-04T21:33:51","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T21:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lewiscottageplants.co.uk\/?post_type=product&#038;p=8005"},"modified":"2026-03-14T13:04:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T13:04:34","slug":"clematis-praecox","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/lewiscottageplants.co.uk\/index.php\/product\/clematis-praecox\/","title":{"rendered":"Clematis Praecox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These fabulous, yet unusual clematis are classed as herbaceous sub-shrubs as their growth is so very different from the rest of the genus\u00a0<i>Clematis<\/i>. C.&#8217;<a title=\"Clematis heracleifolia 'Praecox'\" href=\"https:\/\/thorncroftclematis.co.uk\/clematis-heracleifolia-praecox-8208-p.asp\">Praecox&#8217;<\/a>\u00a0produces star-like flowers with recurved tips and woody scrambling stems. These make excellent plants for the border, they are easy to grow and bloom over a long period. \u00a0This group of plants flower and perform better in sunny free draining conditions. \u00a0Leave pruning until mid-spring(April) when the weather has improved.\u00a0Do NOT prune these hard in autumn or winter when tidying other herbaceous plants as the Heracleifolia Group over-winter better with the old growth left intact. Avoid them becoming too excessively wet during their first autumn and winter in the ground or perhaps plant in the spring.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Position: Full sun\/partial shade<\/li>\n<li>Soil: Almost any<\/li>\n<li>Rate of growth: Moderate<\/li>\n<li>Flowering period: July,August,September<\/li>\n<li>Hardiness: Hardy<\/li>\n<li>Pot size: 1L<\/li>\n<li>Eventual height &amp; spread: 1-4m x 1-3m<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clematis &#8216;Praecox&#8217; (H) is a late flowering Clematis. This despite the fact &#8220;Praecox&#8221; usually means premature in a horticultural context. However it can also mean precocious, so I guess the breeder was attempting some kind of pun. We love\u00a0the clusters of white star-shaped flowers have deep bluey-mauve tips. A clump-forming, vigorous, scrambler that also looks fabulous when trained against a wall. clematis &#8216;Praecox&#8217; is also known as jouiniana &#8216;Praecox&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":9274,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[95,91,85,37,83,49,89,63],"product_tag":[193,182,199,192,180,188,186,189,197,196,190,202,191],"class_list":{"0":"post-8005","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-plants_a-d","7":"product_cat-autumn_plants","8":"product_cat-featured_plants_for_sale","9":"product_cat-plants_for_sale_a-z","10":"product_cat-seasonal_plants_for_sale","11":"product_cat-plants_in_situ","12":"product_cat-summer_plants","13":"product_cat-woodland_plants_for_sale","14":"product_tag-buy-plants-online","15":"product_tag-cottage-garden","16":"product_tag-devon-plants-for-sale","17":"product_tag-garden-club","18":"product_tag-hardy","19":"product_tag-lewis-cottage","20":"product_tag-mid-summer","21":"product_tag-perennial","22":"product_tag-plant-nursery","23":"product_tag-private-garden-tours","24":"product_tag-the-garden","25":"product_tag-white-flower","26":"product_tag-woodland","28":"first","29":"outofstock","30":"shipping-taxable","31":"purchasable","32":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscottageplants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/8005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscottageplants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscottageplants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscottageplants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscottageplants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscottageplants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscottageplants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=8005"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscottageplants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=8005"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscottageplants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=8005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}