This very rare and spectacular upright herbaceous species from North America is not often seen or offered but should be. Terminal sprays of unusual leathery, purplish flowers open in late spring. The identity of this fabulous plant will certainly stump most, if not all of your keen plant friends! ... Learn More

This lovely reliable alpina variety flowers from March to May with hundreds of nodding, white-eyed, four-sepalled blue flowers before it produces its fantastic seed heads for the rest of the season after the flowers have gone. It is a very strong growing, amazingly tough variety that can withstand Arctic temperatures and will grow in places and countries where other clematis will just not survive! ... Learn More

This early-flowering deciduous variant of Clematis koreana has single, nodding, bell-shaped flowers, the outside of the sepal being deep-purple, opening out to reveal silvery cream margins. A truly stunning cultivar that deserves to be in every garden and it additionally has attractive seed heads later. With their main flowering period being in the spring with a second flush later in the summer, Clematis koreana cultivars have larger flowers than Clematis alpina, and share the ability to withstand harsh exposed positions in the garden. ... Learn More

A native of Portugal and Western Spain, this lovely climber has the most dainty little nodding, bell-shaped flowers with reflexed white petals, flushed on the reverse with pale blue or violet, and which are very freely produced from summer into autumn. An easy-to-grow beauty. ... Learn More

Originating in Korea, this quite new, fast-growing variety can flower in as little as three months from seed. Dense sprays of fragrant, nodding, bell-shaped yellow flowers, often tinged or spotted red, bear reddish anthers, and are followed by decorative, feathery seed heads. Few good seeds collected. ... Learn More

This hardy, late-flowering, deciduous clematis opens heavy masses of fragrant, white, propeller-like flowers held within fine ferny foliage, from September to October, the seeds ripening from Oct to November. From Hallasan and Cheju in S Korea, the roots are used in chinese medicine, and are known for their sedative, pain-relieving, and antibacterial qualities, but we do not recommend this use! ... Learn More

Four large delicately crimped petals, in a shade of pale creamy yellow (the word cirrhosa means 'yellowish'), open in the winter, with their feathery tops surrounded by many stamens. This beautiful clematis loves to scramble up and into hedges and bushes in the Mediterranean regions from Portugal and Morocco to Asia Minor and further on to the Himalayas and because of its winter blooming in mild areas it deserves to be better known. ... Learn More

This highly desirable, vigorous, deciduous climber bears a very heavy crop of very fragrant, pure white flowers in panicles up to 12 inches long, and which open over the whole plant, and later become fluffy seed-heads, from August to October. It makes a superb cloak for anything less beautiful. Most seeds produced are fluffy and sterile but these are good. ... Learn More

This fairly vigorous Japanese climber bears from spring to early autumn intriguing urn-shaped flowers, the four fleshy petals staying almost closed, and covered on the outside with brown hairs, resembling a bunch of baby rabbits clustered together! It will quickly cover any unsightly fence or shrub or can even do well in a large pot. ... Learn More

This rare and extremely beautiful Japanese species has nodding, bell-shaped, leathery-petalled, reddish-violet flowers with greenish white staminodes which produce a doubling effect. The main flowering period is May and June with further flowers appearing later until October. Very few viable seeds available. ... Learn More

This rare plant, native to much of the western United States, from Washington to Nebraska, has hairy stems reaching up to about half a meter tall, and many hairy, fern-like leaves divided into lance-shaped lobes. The flowers are made up of urn-shaped cups of deep silvery-purple-blue petal-like sepals, which are fuzzy with pointed or rounded tips, rarely white or pinkish sepals, and finally a feathery swirl of seed pods appears, that always attracts as much attention as the flower, this fabulous plant being both unmistakeable and unbeatable. Very few viable seeds collected. ... Learn More

A seldom-seen species clematis with vigorous climbing stems carrying pendent purple or blue-purple, urn-shaped flowers with distinctive white lips. It is native to Korea and the region of the Amur River which forms the boundary between China and Russia. ... Learn More

This gorgeous, sweetly scented, clump-forming, herbaceous, non-climbing clematis bears very attractive, indigo-blue nodding flowers with recurving tepals. An exceptionally lovely species, it was introduced from southern Europe in 1573 and has always been one of the staple cottage garden plants. ... Learn More

Bright pink flowers open over an extended period from mid-summer to early autumn on this exceptional, clump-forming, semi-erect or scrambling herbaceous clematis. It flowers on the current year's growth, and if pruning is required, it can be cut back to about 15-20cm (6-8in) above soil level in early spring before new growth appears. In addition it is ideal for a large container. This lovely plant has been given the Royal Horticultural Society's prestigious Award of Garden Merit (AGM) in recognition of its outstanding excellence. ... Learn More

A close relative of Clematis tangutica, this relatively new and quite rare flower differs as its sepals are considerably more greenish-yellow rather than lemon-yellow, and are densely pubescent inside and glabrous outside rather than the other way round as with C. tangutica! ... Learn More