Welcome to Thorncroft Clematis & Climbers
The UK's most comprehensive selection of climbers, with nearly 500 plants to choose from!
Winners of 12 Chelsea Flower Show Gold Medals
35+ years of experience and knowledge.
We are a third generation family company that grew out of a back garden hobby and a leading UK Clematis Mail Order Specialist selling high quality clematis plants to customers all over the United Kingdom.
We are proud to be a small independent specialist nursery, with a team of just 4 people. Peter is the third generation of family to run the business and manages all the customer communication, plant advice and promotion. Heather manages our dispatch site with Gertie & Mary-Anne who do the plant care, order picking, packing & dispatch.
This is business of passion and we are dedicated to putting smiles on peoples faces, selling high quality plants and ensuring we give great advice to our customers to ensure you have success with them in your garden.
Being a small independent nursery we appreciate every customer and every sale no matter how large or modest in size.
Enjoy browsing the website and Happy Gardening!
Peter
Please be aware we are a mail order company and NOT open regularly, so please don't just turn up.
We do offer a Click & Collect service though! - Find out more...
Save ££ when buying one of our Plant Packs.
The montana clematis are dear to us because we used to have a National Collection of them at the nursery. Sadly the collection is no longer but we still have a love for these glorious natural climbers. Buy our Montana Plant Pack and start covering your garden in colour.
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Small nodding bell-shaped flowers of rich reddish-brown have a bright yellow inside and are followed by a profusion of shiny silvery seed-heads. Very pretty and easy to grow.
The outside of the elegant trumpet shaped flowers is rich purply-pink, whilst the margins, tips and inside are a clear white giving a stunning contrast. A truly beautiful flower to grace your garden and can be grown with clematis PRINCE WILLIAM for a charming combination.
The dark bluey-purple flowers have beautifully contrasting pale yellow stamens and are produced in huge abundance across the plant for a long time through the summer An outstanding performer that adorns gardens across the world.
Received a Top Award in a Popular Garden Magazine Dec 2020.
Awarded the RHS Award of Garden Merit
The fabulous lilac-blue flowers have an amazing fountain-like centre of silvery-mauve petaloid stamens. A compact, free-flowering climber perfect for a pot!
Received a Top Award in a Popular Garden Magazine Dec 2020.
A classic old clematis. Pamela Jackman remains a super garden plant with violet-blue, single, nodding bell-shaped flowers that have creamy-white staminodes.
'Recommended' by a Popular Garden Magazine Dec 2020.
Awarded the RHS Award of Garden Merit
Save ££ when buying one of our Plant Packs.
It can be hard to choose what's right for you when you are new to something, so let us take the worry out of it for you with our Beginners Plant Pack. Buy our Beginners Plant Pack and start your clematis collection today.
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From an abundance of spiky buds, starlike flowers of mauve-blue appear and mature to pale mauvey-blue as they age. A slightly deeper pinky-lavender bar can be seen when they first open but quickly disappears.
The beautiful upward-facing blooms open creamy-white, turning to pure white as they mature and have golden stamens. A beautiful old cultivar from the early 1900's.
Awarded the RHS Award of Garden Merit
Rich deep violet blooms have a silvery sheen when they first open and have striking golden yellow stamens in the centre. Cultivated for the cut flower trade, this prolific clematis is extraordinarily floriferous in the garden or when grown in a container.
Abundant fuchsia pink starlike flowers are shown off brilliantly against a bright green foliage. A more natural climber than the other SAPHYRA® cultivars, Nancy will happily climb up a small support, climb a wall trellis or create lovely ground cover. Also consider her to use as a scrambling companion in a border over other shrubs, her uses are varied thanks to her prolific and forgiving nature.
This striking variety of honeysuckle has a very pretty white and pale gold flower that is highly fragrant, set against a semi-evergreen foliage, marked with pale green and darker green markings that become tinted with pink towards the autumn.
The pretty pale pink star-shaped flowers have a delicate pink blush at the base of their tepals, which is enhanced by a crown of deep red stamens. A compact, free-flowering climber perfect for a pot!
This lovely clematis has double dusky-magenta rosette shaped flowers and makes a wonderful sight when in full bloom. These elegant blooms are excellent as cut flowers.
'Recommended' by a Popular Garden Magazine Dec 2020.
Awarded the RHS Award of Garden Merit
Save ££ when buying one of our Plant Packs. The British Royal Family are dear to us all. Buy our Royal Plant Pack and start collecting the whole series.
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Prolific starlike flowers of deep indigo-blue mature to a mid indigo and the central stamens open to reveal white filaments. Long flowering from mid-June to autumn, this is the oldest variety of the SAPHYRA® range.
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