Encyclopedia: Clematis

A Japanese cultivar with double white flowers in May and June. During summer blooming flowers are semi-double, white with yellow stamens. Twines around the supports by means of curling petioles. Suitable for growing over arbours and pergolas, or training over various garden supports such as trellises and poles. Particularly useful for sunny, sheltered sites, against a d...

A Swedish cultivar with white flowers, shaded blue at the edges, 8-14 cm across. 6-8 slightly wavy tepals and purple anthers on white filaments. It flowers from mid-May to early July and again in August - September if you remove faded flowers. It doesn’t like windy positions. It can reach the height of 2 m and attaches itself to the support with leaf tendrils. Useful fo...

Polish variety bred by Stefan Franczak with large (16-18 cm across) white flowers. 6-8 oval, loosely arranged tepals with green-yellow bar along the midrib in the early flowering stage, and wavy edges. Creamy yellow anthers on white filaments. Flowers from mid May to July, and also in September, if you trim withered blossoms. It doesn’t like windy spots. Grows 2,5-3 m h...

The oldest large-flowered cultivar raised in England in 1858. Spectacular, dark, violet-purple, semi-nodding flowers with green stamens are borne in great profusion from July to October. A healthy and hardy variety. Ideal for fences, walls, arbors, pergolas, trellises and wooden supports. It can clamber over natural supports e.g. small trees or large, deciduous or conif...

A hardy, long-flowering Polish cultivar with a moderate growth rate. Large, cream flowers with a pale pink bar, particularly distinctive during autumn bloom. Suitable for fences, walls, arbors, pergolas, trellises and wooden supports. It can clamber over natural supports e.g. small trees or large, deciduous or coniferous shrubs. Particularly useful for cultivation behin...

A cultivar with intriguing semi-double slightly nodding bell-shaped pink flowers, 7 cm across. 4 deep pink tepals with numerous staminodes. It flowers in late April and May, as the last cultivar of the group. In summer it sometimes repeats the flowering. From June to autumn the plant is decorated with fancy fluffy seedheads. It grows up to 2-3 m high and attaches itself to the support by means of twining leaf petioles. Very frost hardy and undemanding. It toler...

Large (13-15 cm in diameter) silky white flowers with coffee anthers on white filaments are borne profusely over a long period, from May until October. It climbs by means of twining leaf petioles and is suitable for growing over trellises, stakes and other low garden supports. Makes a good container plant. It can also clamber through natural supports e.g. deciduous and ...

Single or semi-double flowers, 8-10 cm across, most often composed of 4 blue Violet tepals and green white staminodes. Flowers appear in late April – May and later turn into fluffy seed heads that decorate the plant until autumn. It grows 2-3 m high and attaches itself to the support with leaf tendrils. Very hardy and undemanding. Tolerates semi-shade. Particularly usef...

It has large bicolor flowers: velvet violet with a deep purple-red bar and lighter white-purple stamens, borne from June to August. It grows up to 2,5 m. It doesn’t like extremely hot, sunny areas, prefers semi-shaded or shaded positions. Suitable for growing over arbors, pergolas, trellises and various garden supports. It can clamber over natural supports such as small...

A Lithuanian compact cultivar. Light blue-mauve flowers, 6-8 cm across, with 6-8 elliptic tepals with a light purple bar and slightly wavy margins. Light yellow anthers on white filaments. Flowers are produced profusely and over a long period, from June to September. It attaches itself to supports by twining leaf petioles. Particularly useful for container growing, on small supports or where space is limited.