'Gravetye Beauty’ is not the most vigorous, so is best grown through smaller shrubs rather than trees. They are best on good, well-drained soil in a warm, sunny spot. Once in bloom, they continue to produce flowers on new growth until the frosts and they have good seed-heads. The texensis hybrid group tend to die off to ground level or nearly so in winter but climb up again and start to flower in late summer. This is a Clematis texensis hybrid, which Mary loves for its lateness and elegance and its cherry red colouring. The garden designer and writer Mary Keen recommends Clematis 'Gravetye Beauty’ to follow on from these in August. This doesn’t look much, making huge evergreen vines, with matt, dark green leaves and small starry white flowers like a small-leaved armandii, but its scent is incredible at this time of year. Of the less well-known, another of Christopher Lloyd’s favourites was the species, C.
Pruning is easy – simply cut back to 12in in late winter. As a group, the viticellas are the easiest clematis to grow, wilt-resistant and happy in most soils and in positions, although they prefer sun. I have 'Étoile Violette’ with Rosa 'Cerise Bouquet’ growing up through Elaeagnus 'Quicksilver’ and it’s one of my favourite plant combinations. These are both equally good, tough, reliable and free-flowering. Another couple of famously rich-coloured good viticellas are Clematis 'Étoile Violette’, if you prefer a deep purple to a red-crimson, or for colour in between the two, 'Royal Velours’ in a red crimson-purple. Like all viticellas, this is a slender, deciduous climber, perfect for shimmying up posts and through shrubs and trees. Madame Julia Correvon’ is rightly popular, flowering from late June until the end of September. There are three, all with the Award of Garden Merit (AGM), I find totally irresistible. These tend to be in the richest colours, with petals cut from plush silk velvet, and there are some brilliant and reliable forms. The viticella hybrids are also just coming into flower. Once established, they should be cut back to 18-30in in late winter. Both 'Perle d’Azur’ and 'Prince Charles’ like a sunny spot with well-drained soil. Rosesor, as you’ll see at Great Dixter, growing up through shrubs, such as the equally long-flowering pink hebe 'Watson’s Pink’. 'Prince Charles’ makes a fantastic combination with climbing It doesn’t get as gangly as 'Perle d’Azur’, and does not succumb to mildew. It is very resistant to clematis wilt and incredibly free-flowering. It looks similar and is in the same group as 'Perle d’Azur’, but those in the know think 'Prince Charles’ is even better and more reliable. This is covered in light blue flowers from late June until the end of August. One of his favourites for this time of year was the reliable and long-floweringĬlematis 'Prince Charles’. My gardening hero Christopher Lloyd was always a big clematis fan. With weekly tying in before flowering, this clematis reaches the top of this vast wall and makes one of the best plant sights you’re likely to see. There are seven or eight plants on the curved Powis Wall. It’s the favourite of Alexis Datta, the head gardener at Sissinghurst. If we start now in June, it’s from the early large-flowered clematis that we should choose.
Wouldn’t it be nice to have at least one clematis in flower all 12 months of the year, those flowering walls and curtained branches always around you? It’s perfectly possible, because this huge plant family spreads itself neatly through the calendar.
#White autumn clematis Patch#
No longer a randomly selected patch of cultivated earth, it is a three-dimensional flowering world, a space that envelops you and makes you feel at home. Clematis are among the showiest of climbers – and a garden with climbers is a place that feels as though it has come into its own.
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