Changing an arch with a clematis on it

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I've got an arch in my garden which currently has a clematis growing on it. It's a super quick growing one.
The problem is that the arch was one of those super cheap thin metal ones and it collapsing.
I want the replace it. Is there any chance of saving the clematis?
Also, the arch will be going into the lawn. How do I fix it in?

Thats the bunny.

Very pretty it is too. Good work there Kr1stina.

The Akebia quintet, that is. Cross post with the second picture.

Akebia pentaphylla

Ooh I was on a roll there ;-)

Jolly good . Now you know it's name you can google it and find out how to look after it

Here's an article

www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/howtogrow/3319023/How-to-grow-Chocolate-vine.html

Hooray! Rhs instructions here pruning group 11 I can't say I've ever had to deal with one of those. My guess would be you can just cut it right back and it will regrow, and the sooner the better so it grows stuff now to flower on in the spring.

I've inherited one and it's a real thug, mine's climbed all over a pear tree and is now climbing along through the hedge and has popped into next door. It's got too big for me to tackle so I'm saving up to get a gardener in! I didn't realise it needed harsh pruning until it was too late ( it's beautiful when it flowers and I've had strange fruity pods grow on it in previous years.)

I've not had any fruit. This is the first year it's grown well.

Pizza - buy some loppers , cut it back and take all the waste to the council recycling place.

Some councils will uplift green waste.

Thanks Kr1stina, I've got loppers but even when they're extended they don't come anywhere near the height of it, it must be 20ft tall and entwined in the tree. I have a green bin for garden waste but it would fill about 4 of them and I only drive a tiny C1.

You chop it off at the level where you can reach . Then you Pull off all the bits you can . The rest will die off and dry up and you will be able to pull more bits off in a few weeks or a month .

Just get some gardening gloves on and pull hard .

It's not ideal ,but better than waiting months to save enough £££ to get someone in . But that time your wheelie bin can be filled 4 times .

Even if you can only get half of it out, you can still get someone in to do the rest and it will be half the work and half the bill. It's much easier to pull off dead branches as they become brittle

thank you, good idea