CLEMATIS

Commonly known as Virgin's bower

Showy, sometimes possibly too showy, long-flowering climbers with variety of shape and colour for all the year.

Genus of more than 200 species of deciduous, twining leaf-climbers, scandent shrubs, subshrubs and sometimes woody-based herbaceous perennials from Europe, the Himalayas, China, Australasia, North America and Central America.

More than 400 cultivars are in cultivation. Native perennial Traveller's joy or Old man's beard (C. vitalba) is a plant of hedgerows and wood edges. The climbing stems can reach to 30m.

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skin irritant
Rabbits. C. harmful if eaten

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CLEMATIS and HYDRANGEA paniculata 'Limelight'

CLEMATIS tangutica

Yellow lantern-like flowers

2 to 3 Litre

£19.50

CLEMATIS texensis 'Princess Diana'

Miniature tulip-shaped pink flowers with a vibrant pink central bar which becomes mauve-deep pink as it nears the edge of the flower

2 to 3 Litre

£22.50

CLEMATIS texensis 'Princess Kate'

Virgin's bower

Bell-shaped purple-backed white flowers.

2 to 3 Litre

£22.00

CLEMATIS urophylla 'Winter Beauty'

Pendulous, creamy-white urn-shaped flowers.

2 to 3 Litre

£25.00

CLEMATIS viticella 'Abundance'

Bell-shaped wine-red flowers

2 to 3 Litre

£19.00

CLEMATIS viticella 'Alba Luxurians'

Grey-green foliage and bell-shaped flowers which are green tipped white

2 to 3 Litre

£19.00

CLEMATIS viticella 'Black Prince'

Dark purple.

2 Litre

£19.00

CLEMATIS viticella 'Dark Eyes'

Very dark purple and free-flowering

2 to 3 Litre

£19.00

CLEMATIS viticella 'Kermesina'

Wine-red flowers with white at the centre, contrasting well with dark anthers

2 to 3 Litre

£19.00

CLEMATIS viticella 'Polish Spirit'

Purple flowers with deep red stamens

2 to 3 Litre

£19.00

CLEMATIS viticella 'Purpurea Plena Elegans'

Double lilac-purple flowers which are paler in the centre

2 to 3 Litre

£19.00

CLEMATIS viticella 'Royal Velours'

Rich, velvety purple-red

2 to 3 Litre

£19.00

CLEMATIS viticella 'Venosa Violacea'

Purplish-blue flowers with a white bar and dark stamens. Comparatively large flowers for a viticella

2 to 3 Litre

£19.00

CLEMATIS 'Bees Jubilee'

Bluish-pink striped with carmine

2 to 3 Litre

£19.50

CLEMATIS 'Countess of Lovelace'

Double bluish lilac flowers in early summer and single flowers on new shoots in late summer

2 to 3 Litre

£19.50

CLEMATIS 'Duchess of Edinburgh'

Large double white with green shading

2 to 3 Litre

£19.50

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CLEMATIS 'Elsa Späth'

(syn 'Xerxes') - large blue flowers with a hint of purple

2 to 3 Litre

£19.50

CLEMATIS 'Ernest Markham'

Petunia red with velvety sheen

2 to 3 Litre

£19.50

CLEMATIS 'General Sikorski'

Large single blue flowers with creamy anthers

2 to 3 Litre

£19.50

CLEMATIS 'Gipsy Queen'

Velvety violet-purple

2 to 3 Litre

£19.50

CLEMATIS 'Guernsey Cream'

Large creamy-white flowers with apple green bar

2 to 3 Litre

£19.50

CLEMATIS 'Hagley Hybrid'

Shell pink with brown anthers

2 to 3 Litre

£19.50

CLEMATIS 'Huldine'

Pearly white

2 to 3 Litre

£19.50

CLEMATIS 'Jackmanii Superba'

Violet-purple

2 to 3 Litre

£19.50

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Available Early Spring 2026
Spring according to the Met office is defined as March 1st - May 31st. Therefore early spring is early March to mid-April. This is not a guaranteed date but an estimate and subject to availability.