Encyclopedia: Clematis

A charming Polish variety. Velvet purple-red flowers with red and gold stamens, borne from July to October. Succeeds best in a sunny aspect. It looks especially effective against a light background. Particularly useful for growing over natural supports, through roses, conifers and other shrubs.

A Japanese cultivar of flowers 15–20 cm in diameter, consisting of 8 white, narrow elliptic, pointed sepals turning pink towards the margins which are pink-red and slightly wavy. Stamens of purple anthers set on creamy-coloured filaments. Flowers are borne in the second half of May and in June and reappear, although less generously, in August and September. Reaches 2–2....

An intriguing new cultivar of double, extravagant flowers. Blooms abundantly in summer. A valuable adornment of any type of a garden or a terrace. WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE: Flowers highly decorative, violet-blue with green-yellow petal tips, always double, of varying shape. Free-flowering in VI, continues until IX. Leaves dark green, of entire margins, either single, c...

A vigorous Japanese cultivar, often forming a dense tangle of growth. Very popular in the USA. A late flowering variety bearing during September-November a profusion of small star-shaped, white, sweetly scented flowers. Requires a sunny, warm position with a tall, strong support to flower well.

An attractive feature in autumn garden – rampant vine covered during the season with hundreds or even thousands of white, star-like flowers, 2-3.5 cm in diameter, gathered in panicles.  Flowers consist of 4-5 sepals and white stamens (both anthers and filaments). Free flowering in September and October and if frosts don't come – even until mid-November. Another ornament...

A hardy compact and free-flowering cultivar. Large, purple-blue flowers with silvery reverse and red anthers are profusely borne in May-June and again in July-September. Suitable for growing over fences, walls, trellises and poles. It can clamber over natural supports e.g. deciduous or coniferous shrubs. Particularly useful for cultivation in small gardens or containers...

Violet-blue, velvety flowers of about 13 cm in diameter composed of 6-8 tepals with a deep red-brown stripe. Attractive yellow anthers on creamy filaments. It holds on to supports with twining leaf petioles. Compact growth. Suitable for training up trellises, stakes and other supports. It can also climb up natural supports, such as deciduous or coniferous bushes or dwar...

An interesting cultivar with double, semi-double and single flowers of about 12 cm across with numerous wavy pale lilac-violet tepals with a paler central bar. The stamens have yellow anthers on creamy filaments. It flowers in the second half of May and in June and it can repeat the blooming in September if given the trimming off the faded flowers. Late summer flowers are most often single. It attains the height of 2,5-3 m and attaches itself to the support by means o...

A very free-flowering Japanese cultivar with large, pure white flowers and yellow stamens. One of the earliest flowering varieties. The effect is truly stunning when planted against a dark background.

A Japanese hybrid of Clematis florida and an unknown large-flowered cultivar. Its intriguing flowers are 15-16 cm across, pink, the upper side pale at the base of the tepals, the shade getting gradually deeper towards the edges, the lower side pink-violet. 6 oval-shaped, pointed tepals have a silky sheen and provide a pretty contrast for violet anthers on rose-white fil...