How would it work out to combine two vines "Sweet Autumn Clematis" and "Silver Lace Vine" together?

I was told that if you combine the two you will have blooms from June till November.





Is this true?





and how exactly do you plant them together at the base of the wall?





Also can anyone tell me the time period roughly for the bloom period for each and how well will they look overlapped together during this time?





Thanks for your Answers!

How would it work out to combine two vines "Sweet Autumn Clematis" and "Silver Lace Vine" together?
Still bad. Better, but still bad.





Silver lace vine aggressively suckers from the base, and sweet autumn clematis can blow seed everywhere, you'll be pulling it out of your fence lines.





If you cut them back, they may not bloom as well for you. I'm not 100% sure on that, but it seems possible that the plant will not be mature enough to put on a heavy flower display.





Over all both are fairly low quality vines. Maybe try honeysuckle and trumpet vine? I reserve their use to problem areas, or 'naturalized' areas. The wood pile and such.





I hope that this helps
Reply:It probably depends on where you live, and what the climate is like there. Where I live, clematis is kind of tricky - it does really well when it finds a spot it likes, but it's hard to reliably find those spots! Silver lace vine, on the other hand, grows like the proverbial weed. So I am pretty certain that if I tried that combo here, pretty soon I would have nothing but silver lace vine.





As far as planting two vines together at the base of a wall, it's pretty straightforward (I do it with different types of morning glory all the time). You basically just dig your planting holes about 6-8" out from the wall and around 12-14" apart from one another, and plant. As they grow, they will blend together.





And, I am not certain what type Sweet Autumn clematis is - some you can prune down to the crown in fall, but others you don't prune until spring, and some you don't prune at all! Better to make sure what type Sweet Autumn is before you go cutting to make sure you are not inadvertently depriving yourself of next year's blooms (or maybe even killing the plant) with overzealous pruning.





Another combo you might consider is to grow the clematis up and over a climbing or rambling rose. This can look very pretty, give you lots of season-long color as the roses generally bloom before the clematis, and the rose also shades the roots of the clematis, which seems to help the clematis grow better.





Hope this helps.
Reply:Autumn clematis (clematis paniculata) can be cut back to the ground every year and it will come back with a vengance. So can Silver lace vine. If you are determined to plant them together, just plant them side by side. Autumn clematis blooms in August-September. Polygonum blooms from July to frost.





http://www.daytonnursery.com/Encyclopedi...





http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/5717...





http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/683/





Read Dave's Garden for comments from people who have planted them.
Reply:plant them side by side when planting at the base of the wall the bloom period should be may june and they will look beautiful overlapped together.and do cut them back in the fall after there last bloom.