Climbing Plants

Clematis alpina produces small, bell-shaped, mid-blue spring flowers with creamy-white centres, followed by fluffy seed-heads and mid-green leaves. This early spring flowering clematis is ideal for a north or east facing site.

Characteristics:

• Type: Deciduous Climber
• Colour: Mid-Blue
• Height & Spread: H 3m x S 1.5m
• Hardiness: Fully hardy
• Flowers: April to May
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Pot Size: 2.25 Litre S-Pot

Clematis 'Arabella' is a semi-herbaceous perennial with scrambling stems and green leaves. In summer and early autumn it bears violet flowers with darker-violet stripes. Plant against a warm wall in fertile, well-drained soil.

Characteristics:

• Type: Deciduous Climber
• Colour: Muve-Blue
• Height & Spread: H 1.8m x S 1m
• Hardiness: Fully Hardy
• Flowers: July to September
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Pot Size: 2.25 Litre

'Aromatica' is a highly scented summer flowering clematis usually blooming in July to October. Admire the unusual deep violet blooms with prominent pale yellow stamens as the plant trails prettily through borders.

Plant in a moisture-retentive, well-drained soil. Keep the base of the plant and roots cool and shaded by other plants or a layer of pebbles or flat stones at the base. Plant with the crown of the clematis at soil level. Mulch in late winter with garden compost.

Characteristics:

• Type: Deciduous Climber
• Colour: Purple
• Height & Spread: H 2.5m x S 1m
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Flowers: Early Summer - Mid Autumn
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Pot Size: 2 Litre

Clematis 'Dr Ruppel' is a deciduous climbing shrub. It has large, rose-pink flowers, darker towards the centre, fading to pale violet at the edges, with cream stamens. Flowers appear in late spring to early summer and may be followed by a second flush in late summer.

Characteristics:

• Type: Deciduous Climber
• Colour: Rose-Pink
• Height & Spread: H 2.5m x S 1m
• Hardiness: Fully Hardy
• Flowers: May to June and September
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Pot Size: 2.25 Litre

'Ernest Markham' is a large, deciduous climber with large, green leaves. Blooming from mid summer to early autumn, this vigorous and extremely and extremely floriferous clematis is a winner of an Award of Garden Merit of the Royal Horticultural Socierty.

Grow this plant in moist, well-drained soils in full sun or partial shade.

Characteristics:

• Type: Deciduous Climber
• Colour: Magenta
• Height & Spread: H 3m x S 1m
• Hardiness: Fully Hardy
• Flowers: Summer to Autumn
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Pot Size: 2.25 Litre

Clematis 'Fascination' is a deciduous, non-clinging, perennial climber with pinnate, dark green leaves and, throughout summer, nodding, urn-shaped, lightly fragrant, purple flower with paler, recurved petal tips.

Characteristics:

• Type: Deciduous Climber
• Colour: Purple
• Max. Height & Spread: H-1.5m x S-1m
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Flowers: Summer
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Pot Size: 2 Litre

Clematis 'Helsingborg' is a mid-sized, deciduous climber with narrow bright-green leaflets. In spring it bears small, deep violet-blue flowers with four petals and cream stamens.

Characteristtics:

• Type: Deciduous Climber
• Colour: Violet Blue
• Max. Height & Spread: H-2.5m x S-1.5m
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Flowers: Spring
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Pot Size: 2.25 Litre S-Pot

Clematis 'Jackmanii' is a beautiful deciduous climber which gets covered with a profusion of velvety dark purple flowers, fading to violet over time contrasting with the greenish-cream anthers.

Blooming from early to late summer, this vigorous and extremely floriferous clematis boasts an Award of Garden Merit of the Royal Horticultural Society.

Characteristics:

• Type: Deciduous Climber
• Colour: Purple
• Height & Spread: H 3m x S 1m
• Hardiness: Fully Hardy
• Flowers: July to September
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Pot Size: 2.25 Litre

Clematis 'Jan Fopma' is a deciduous, perennial climber with pinnate, dark green leaves and, from mid- to late summer, small, nodding, bell-shaped, dark reddish-purple flowers with paler petal margins and recurved petal tips.

Characteristics:

• Type: Deciduous Climber
• Colour: Red-Purple
• Max. Height & Spread: H-1.5m x S-1m
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Flowers: Summer & Autumn
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Pot Size: 2 Litre

Clematis 'Jan Paul II' is a magnificent large-flowered variety producing an abundance of creamy-white flowers with a pale pink stripe down the centre of each tepal and a large bouquet of spidery red stamens.

Flowers first in late spring to mid-summer, then again in early autumn. This clematis is ideal for arbors, trellises, pergolas and other garden structures. 'Jan Paul II' thrives in moist, well-drained soils in partial shade.

Characteristics:

• Type: Deciduous Climber
• Colour: White
• Height & Spread: H-3.6m x S-1m
• Hardiness: Fully Hardy
• Flowers: Spring to Summer and Autumn
• Position: Sun or Partial Shade
• Pot Size: 2.25 Litre

Clematis 'Miss Bateman' is a compact, deciduous climber with large, satin-white flowers initially striped green, and adorned with a flourish of burgundy-red anthers. Flowers first in late spring to early summer then again from late summer to early autumn.

'Miss Bateman' is a vigorous and free-flowering clematis and adds luminous elegance to the garden. Easy to grow and cultivate, this clematis thrives in moist, well-drained soils in full sun or partial shade.

Characteristics:

• Type: Deciduous Climber
• Colour: White
• Height & Spread: H 2.5m x S 1m
• Hardiness: Fully Hardy
• Flowers: May to June and August to September
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Pot Size: 2.25 Litre

Clematis 'Mrs N. Thompson' is a deciduous, medium-sized, climbing perennial with glossy, dark green leaves and large blue-purple flowers with red bars in each petal in late spring to early summer, often followed by a second show in late summer.

Characteristics:

• Type: Deciduous Climber
• Colour: Violet, Purple
• Height & Spread: H 2m x S 1m
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Flowers: Spring to Autumn
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Pot Size: 2.25 Litre S-Pot

Clematis 'Nelly Moser' is a very popular deciduous climber covered with a profusion of impressively large star-shaped flowers with 8 pink-lilac sepals, each with a carmine stripe that fades in strong sun, and reddish-purple anthers.

Blooming in late spring to early summer and late summer to early autumn , this vigourous and extremely floriferous clematis vine is a winner of the prestigious Award of Garden Merit of the Royal Horticultural Society.

Characteristics:

• Type: Deciduous Climber
• Colour: Pale-Pink
• Height & Spread: H 3m x S 1m
• Hardiness: Fully Hardy
• Flowers: May to June and September
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Pot Size: 2.25 Litre S-Pot

Clematis 'Niobe' is a small to medium-sized deciduous climber. Single flowers are 15cm wide with six deep velvety ruby-red sepals that age to wine-red and greenish-yellow stamens. Flowers from late spring to early autumn.

Characteristtics:

• Type: Deciduous Climber
• Colour: Wine Red
• Max. Height & Spread: H-2.5m x S-1m
• Hardiness: Fully Hardy
• Flowers: July to September
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Pot Size: 2.25L S-Pot

Clematis 'Noora' is a deciduous climber with velvety-purple flowers. Its yellow anthers form a decorative contrast to the rich flower colour.

Characteristics:

• Type: Deciduous Climber
• Colour: Velvet-Purple
• Max. Height & Spread: H-2m x S-0.9m
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Flowers: June - September
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Pot Size: 2.25 Litre (S-pot)

Clematis 'Picotee' is a deciduous, perennial climber with pinnate leaves divided into ovate or broadly lance-shaped, mid-green leaves and, in late spring and early summer, and again from midsummer into autumn, white flowers with wide, deep purple-pink petal margins.

Characteristics:

• Type: Deciduous Climber
• Colour: White with Purple-Pink Margins
• Max. Height & Spread: H-2.5m x S-1m
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Flowers: Summer into Autumn
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Pot Size: 2 Litre

'Piilu' is a highly commended clematis and is regarded as one of the best clematis for containers. 'Piilu' is a vigorous large-flowered clematis of great interest. The first flush of flowers in late spring are usually double or semi-double with the second in late summer being single.

The flowers are pale mauve-pink, each sepal with a broad rose bar paling towards their ruffled edges. They surround and pleasantly contrast with a central boss of creamy-wite to pale yellow anthers.

Characteristics:

• Type: Deciduous Climber
• Colour: Pink
• Height & Spread: H 3m x S 0.75m
• Hardiness: Fully Hardy
• Flowers: June & September
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Pot Size: 2.25 Litre S-Pot

Clematis 'Pink Fantasy' is a compact, deciduous climber with bright to mid-green leaves and large, pale pink flowers with deep pink bars and anthers blooming from midsummer to early autumn.

Characteristics:

• Type: Deciduous Climber
• Colour: Pink
• Height & Spread: H 2,4m x S 1.8m
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Flowers: Summer
• Position: Partial Sun
• Pot Size: 2.25 Litre