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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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Deciduous
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Evergreen
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ClimberSome of these climbing plants will need trellis or wire supports if grown on walls or fences. Other grow aerial roots and are self-clinging
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HerbaceousEarly in the year, typically January till end of March, herbaceous plants might be supplied in 9cm pots to ensure timely despatch.
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Additional FeaturesGood to knowC. viticella and the small-flowering varieties are resistant to clematis wilt.Place of originNorthern and southern hemispheres including Europe, Himalayas, China, Australasia, North and Central America.
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Toxic - Category CHarmful if eatenPets, i.e. cats, dogs, rabbits, rodents, notably rabbitsSkin irritantPeople
- Pruning
- Pruning Group 1 - Flowering mid / late spring
- Pruning Group 2 - Flowering late spring / early summer
- Pruning Group 3 - Flowering late summer / early autumn
- Training Climbers - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Dividing Herbaceous Perennials - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Spring Planting Osteospermums - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Dividing Summer Perennials - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Dividing summer flowering Hemerocallis - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Summer propagation - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Self-seeding aquilegia - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Supporting Plants - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Dead heading meconopsis - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Dead heading Delphiniums - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Feeding herbaceous peonies - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Overpotting Problems - Video Tip ondemand_video
Buy Varieties of CLEMATIS
CLEMATIS alpina 'Blue Dancer'
a very popular pale blue early flowering clematis.
CLEMATIS alpina 'Broughton Bride'
pendulous white flowers with slight mauve markings on the outside
CLEMATIS alpina 'Frances Rivis'
(Blue Giant) - Large blue flowers with contrasting white flowers
CLEMATIS armandii
creamy-white flowers and long leathery dark green leaves
CLEMATIS armandii 'Apple Blossom'
blush pink flowers, tinted white, from darker pink buds.
CLEMATIS armandii 'Snowdrift'
pure white flowers
CLEMATIS cartmanii 'Joe'
dwarf growing but very floriferous, white
CLEMATIS cirrhosa 'Freckles'
larger flowered form, tinged pink with maroon spots
CLEMATIS cirrhosa 'Jingle Bells'
winter flowering bell-shaped flowers of creamy-white
CLEMATIS cirrhosa 'Wisley Cream'
large creamy-white unspotted flowers
CLEMATIS x durandii
striking bright blue flowers on long stiff stems, good for cutting
CLEMATIS 'Early Sensation'
evergreen with pinnate leaves and sweetly scented white flowers
CLEMATIS florida 'Alba Plena'
large double greenish white flowers
CLEMATIS florida 'Bicolor'
(Syn. 'Sieboldii') - beautiful form with large white flowers and a conspicuous central boss of violet-purple stamens
CLEMATIS florida 'Taiga'
double purple-blue flowers late summer through to autumn. The petals curl inwards and are tipped with greenish white. A close runner-up as RHS Plant of the Year in 2017