Clematis suddenly dying

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Our clematis was blooming only a few days ago . It was doing really well and looked very healthy
Now it's dying . Loads of the leaves have wilted
Will it be the cold snaps we've had do you think ?
I have no gardening experience

Clematis wilt? Very sudden and starts at the top. You have to cut it right back, dispose of the foliage, and it will survive but notmuch willhappenthis year.

Sounds like Clematis wilt.

I'm really quite sad about this
We don't do much gardening but anything we do always seems to go tits up
The trees we bought when we got the clematis last year have also died for unknown reasons

We had some beautiful lilies last year which became infested with lily beetles

Lily beetle is a real pest, they are like locusts and will decimate the plant. The only way to get rid of it is by constantly inspecting the plants and manually removing the beetles and squashing them. They sometimes sense you’re there, fall off and lay upside down on the compost so you can’t see them!
Can you tell I wage war on them?!

Ha yeah they're weird little things
I actually felt awful as I could hear them 'screaming' we gave up in the end and don't have the lilies anymore

Mine do that,they grow so high then start to wilt,I’m giving up now,they have been cut back 5 times

Early and late clematis are less affected by wilt, it's the big flowered mid season ones which are most affected.

I think the difference between new gardeners and experienced ones is that new gardeners have to ask what all the problems are, so they talk and think about them a lot, and they loom large in the garden experience. Experienced gardeners know what the problem is, and deal with it without thinking, so it hardly registers in their consciousness. I was just thinking, yesterday on a ramble around my garden I nipped off and disposed of a lot of shoots in the Guelder Rose which had blackfly-induced leaf curl; nipped off a lot of shoot tips on one of the apple trees which had developed mildew; and on my way back to the house checked all the fritillaries for lily beetle. I then discovered a truncated courgette seedling in the greenhouse, found the culprit and escorted it a long way away, and refreshed the ferrous oxide slug pellets. But if you'd asked me how my garden was, I'd have genuinely told you it was doing well.

I had lily beetles, was gutted. The bulbs came back the next year though

Clematis like their roots to be buried quite deeply, they like cool shady areas, and need to be well supported as they grow.

It's been ripped down and destroyed now
Such a shame