Re: Spring Clematis
I know you asked summer this question but I have a couple if possible ideas.
Clematis love to have shaded roots. They don’t like their roots getting dried out so if there isn’t a small bush in front of it or big Hosta plant etc., so the roots don’t get dried out.
The tops of Clematis need full sun while the bottom needs shade. Your Clematis may have dried out some so not produced flowers previously.
This year everyone no matter where they live globally, got plenty of rain so flowering trees and bushes did incredibly well this spring/summer. This also supplies additional nutrition to the plant itself.
Another possibility is that it got cut down. Hard cutting Clematis right down helps them regain their health so that they may flower profusely after barely flowering at all.
Pictures. Ha. I’m not very computer literate but if you go to advanced post you will see a paper clip to the right of the smiling face in your top right hand corner. If you click on that it should open up a format with a button “choose file.”
Click that and it should open up wherever your pictures are stored on your phone / computer.
I’d love to see both of your purple clematis.