Help my clematis has collapsed in days!

[Benjispruce4]

Planted this Montana about 6 weeks ago and it shot up the trellis. This week it has just wilted despite watering daily. Is it gone?

Clematis wilt, probably. It's a thing

www.rhs.org.uk/disease/clematis-wilt

Cut it off as low down as possible and cross your fingers...
And don't compost the bits.

... although planting a big one in a terracotta pot in June was always going to be an ask! They like moisture on their roots, and for them to be cool. The saying is 'feet in the shade, head in the sun'.

Oh! I thought perhaps it was just the heat. There are no brown spots really. It’s a dark leafed variety.

Oh ok. It’s just that it wasn’t big when planted and just took off! I naively thought it was happy there! Any bette suggestions for this spot? Had a rose before and that didn’t produce more than one flower a year.

Mine gets a lot of sun but it has a huge iris alongside it that hangs over the base so it's shaded.

You need something to cover the roots. They don't like the sun. Here's my new one.

Thanks for replies. I have pebbles covering the pot and I place a garden chair in from to shade the pot. I think it was late May I planted it. I also planted a Californian lilac from B&Q where I bought the clematis and they’ve both died . This has never happened to me. I always take care to water well for a few months. I’ve chopped it back. 😪

This one from Aldi is doing well. It’s now about to flower for the second time. Planted the same time.

Get the biggest pot you can. Or even better, lift some bricks and let it get its roots into real ground. Little pots dry out so quickly.

It’s on a veranda so feet away from soil unfortunately. May just have to accept it needs a difficult place.

*different

mine was planted the same time as urs. Was doing well. Had flowers etc. then stopped. And the leaves looked like urs.
I didn’t even have anything good to cut it down to so I dig it up in the end.

I planted a climbing rose instead. Don’t know what was wrong.

Clematis wilt affects the large flowering hybrids more than the smaller flowering species like C. montana. I’d be more inlined to suspect drought

Montanas a naturally huge beasts and not well suited to pots. I would take it out of the pot and see what the roots are doing. If the pot is very crowded with roots, it's probably just run out of space and you would have to be watering and feeding it constantly to keep it going.

Maybe replace with a smaller clematis? Many are much more suited to pots than montanas.

Mine’s done the same, just cut it right back and it will probably shoot again.

Thanks all.

I planted a Montana and it did fantastically, I swear you could watch it grow, then boom it just died at the end of its first autumn.

Someone suggested clematis wilt but goodness knows.

I've planted another and this one hasn't gone insane, and is growing slowly and sensibly. Fingers crossed - I wonder if there's a link to them growing so fast despite being newly planted?

I think it’s a combination of pot, position and weather. It literally grew inches daily after planting then dried up despite daily watering due to its sunny position.

Get it into moist soil in a pot in the shade and keep your fingers crossed. There’s a slight chance that it will send out new shoots

Montana gets massive! I would plant a different variety that won’t go wild on you.