Transform walls, fences and unsightly garden sheds with our colourful large-flowered clematis collection, or simply create a floral focal point on the patio or lawn. These large-flowered hybrids are fantastic planted together in pots as well as in borders.

Varieites are chosen at random from a wide range and may include some of those illustrated. You won't be disappointed!

Very useful garden plants, the alpina forms are very hardy and ideal for exposed locations. They are climbers with nodding blooms and attractive ferny foliage. Blue Dancer is a distinct variety with vigorous habit.

Very useful garden plants, the alpina forms are very hardy and ideal for exposed locations.

They are climbers with nodding blooms, and attractive, ferny foliage. Height: 6½-10 feet.

Collection comprises 1 plant each of:

Willy

Tage Lundell

Blue Dancer

Voluptuous, nodding, semi- double, 12.5cm (5in) blooms in veined pink. Excellent for containers or walls, fences or obelisks, plants are repeat flowering and provide attractive seedheads.

Very useful garden plants, the alpina forms are very hardy and ideal for exposed locations. They are climbers with nodding blooms, and attractive, ferny foliage. A distinct variety with strong coloured petals and vigorous habit.

Very useful garden plants, the alpina forms are very hardy and ideal for exposed locations. They are climbers with nodding blooms, and attractive, ferny foliage. Has pale pink blooms with darker outsides, often with a second flush of blooms in late summer too!

One of very few evergreen species, this Clematis provides shiny green, pointed foliage all year, with delightfully scented, creamy 5cm (2in) flowers in spring.

An evergreen Clematis with shiny green, slightly bronze foliage, accompanied by vanilla scented, pink blushed blooms from early spring onwards.

Evergreen plants with decorative foliage and delicate, hanging blooms offer an injection of colour into spring displays.

Collection comprises 1 each of:

cirrhosa var. balearica

cirrhosa Ourika Valley

cirrhosa Freckles

A very useful Clematis, blooming at a time when the garden needs an injection of colour. Delightfully freckled, scented, 7.5cm (3in) flowers clothe the evergreen plants in autumn, and often again in January.

Evergreen and free-flowering. Balearica offers finely cut foliage and delicately speckled blooms.

A rarity. Probably the most strongly scented species, with lime-green flowers exuding a rich lemon verbena scent, against the divided foliage. May not be hardy in cooler regions, makes a good conservatory specimen.

An easy species suitable for many locations, the nodding, violet blooms clothe the palmate foliage from midsummer onwards. Looks brilliant cascading over large containers.

The King of the Clematis! Extreme vigour and speed of growth are the unquestionable qualities of the montana types. Cover your large walls and fences or evergreen trees. Has a very unusual double flower, with young bronze foliage. Plants do best in full sun.

Extreme vigour and speed of growth are the unquestionable qualities of the montana types. Why not cover your walls and fences or evergreen trees? They’re smothered in blooms all spring.

Collection comprises 1 each of:

montana Tetrarose

montana Broughton Star

montana Warwickshire Rose