Producing walls of colour over a long period, clematis are essential garden climbers. Hazel Sillver looks at some of the best ...

Your clematis will survive and even bloom with no pruning, ... Type C are great for growing on obelisks or trellises or training them to grow into small trees or shrubs like lilacs.

For a short vine, Clematis 'Princess Diana' makes a big impression. It has deep pink flowers that do not open flat like many clematis vines do; instead, the four petals (technically tepals or ...

* Botanical name: Clematis integrifolia x durandii 'Rooguchi' * What it is: A woody-stemmed, compact, twining vine that produces large, 2-inch, bell-shaped, dark blue-purple flowers from early ...

Place the unpotted clematis inside. ... If the plant’s vines are long enough, train them to the obelisk by gently wrapping them around the latticework and loosely attaching a few with string.

Clematis is a lovely perennial vine that climbs, grows, and can sometimes establish a permanent framework for fresh green growth.This beautiful plant lightens up the garden with large, vivid ...

Rather than waiting for a shrub to gain height, train a vine on an obelisk or tuteur, and you’ve got instant height. Here are some dainty perennial vines that won’t become weighty issues. Clematis: ...

Wherever you need something colorful to clamber over something — a trellis, a fence, a shed, an arbor — there’s a clematis vine that would welcome the opportunity. Several types o… ...

C — Cultivate success. Group 3 clematis include a number of beautiful, sturdy and resilient vines that bloom on growth produced in the current growing season.

Clematis like their “heads in the sun and feet in the shade”. Create a fabulous display by interplanting a clematis with a fruit or other small tree or shrub.