clematis - whats the best for..?

[poppiesinaline]

a dry spot under one of those horrible conifer tree things. Want one to climb up my fence near that spot. Shady in mornings but gets full sun part of afternoon. Will one grow there if I give it some TLC and if so, which type is best?

um, not much will grow in the dry spot under one of those horrible conifer tree things I'm afraid....

:( will one not grow if I put it in its own large pot?

I have a clematis montana in a pot on an E facing wall which is completely shut off from the S so it gets hardly any sun and it grows really well so you could try one of those. They do like their roots in shade after all. Worth a try!

can't you just get rid of horrible conifer tree thing? failing that the montana clematis do grow pretty much anywhere.

It's one of the very large plastic ones, wr - about 2' tall? It's completely neglected, the compost must be exhausted by now and it's right by the house so only gets rain when it angles in but it still fights back every spring (the bottom 3-4 feet is bare wood but it grows up and then hangs back down so it should be OK to creep out from under a tree and drape prettily over a fence!)

its next doors conifer and they wont get rid of it :(

I have an old chimney pot! would that do. Kind of like a pot with no bottom so the roots could come out the bottom but I could still keep it watered well. Would that work? what do ya think? It could be something else I suppose but I do like clematis. Any ideas welcome :)