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 to almost all of 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.
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This incredible new clematis bred by Wim Snoeijer in The Netherlands is quite unique and will certainly attract those who seek something a little different to plant in their gardens. The rich abundance of these eye-catching spiky multi-layered magenta flowers is a sight to behold.
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
Gorgeous deep pinky-mauve blooms have pale mauve margins and a rich cerise-pink bar. A striking bloom that keeps its colour even when grown in full sun. Later flowers have more intense colouring.
A quintessential 'cottage garden' flower, whose gently nodding bluish-purple blooms look amazing when combined with climbing roses, or clambering over a porch or arch.
Awarded the RHS Award of Garden Merit
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
This stunning new clematis looks to be a big hit with gardeners. With it's deep royal-purple double blooms which stand out from the rich green foliage on long slender stems giving it a very exotic appearance.
The pretty white flowers are deeply textured and have a wonderful satin sheen. This popular clematis is perfect to brighten any dull spot in your garden and excellent for a long summer and autumn flowering period.
The mid pink semi-nodding bell-shaped flowers have prominent deep pink ribs on the outside. A delightful looking plant that grows will as a companion in the border.
Clematis 'Tie Dye'. These distinctive, unusual violet-blue star-shaped flowers are liberally marbled with mauve and white. Ours looks fabulous growing with a lovely apricot coloured climbing rose called 'Meg'- an eye-catching combination!
Received a Top Award in a Popular Garden Magazine Dec 2020.
clematis Petit Faucon is a marvellous little plant with nodding to outward facing flowers with four rich bluey-purple tepals. The stamens have rosy-purple filaments and golden yellow anthers.
Awarded the RHS Award of Garden Merit
The eye-catching flowers have a pale pink centre and rich, slightly purply red margins and beautiful purply-bronze foliage. Named after the Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh, it also has a wonderful scent.
Clematis 'William Kennett'. The lovely mid mauvy-blue star-shaped flowers have rose-pink shadings and very wavy, almost frilly margins, when
Clematis montana 'Broughton Star' has semi-double flowers of very deep plummy-pink, almost red, and a purply-bronze foliage as the plant matures - grow in a sunny position to enhance the colour of flowers and foliage.
Awarded the RHS Award of Garden Merit
Trachelospermum jasminoides is a wonderful garden plant and often known simply as the Star Jasmine. This elegant climber has clusters of highly scented white flowers and shiny dark evergreen leaves is an understated but wonderful addition to any garden. Superb at screening unsightly objects it will also be at home, scrambling up into a supporting tree or shrub.
Awarded the RHS Award of Garden Merit
The light magenta-red blooms have a deeply textured surface and beautifully crimped margins. A fabulous companion to climbing roses and, if hard pruned can be grown in a patio container.
Awarded the RHS Award of Garden Merit
The lovely shell pink star-shaped blooms have a deeper rose-pink bar when first open, they mature to pale mauve-pink. An old favourite of ours which is perfect in a shady position.
These unusual deep pinky-red flowers have a pale pink pom-pom like centre and strongly recurved tips to the tepals.
'Recommended' by a Popular Garden Magazine Dec 2020.
Clematis TEKLA is a compact climber producing large flowers of a mixture of red, purple and pink tones that look fantastic during mid to late summer. Ideal for growing in a container.
Clematis 'Paul Farges' The clusters of dainty creamy-white flowers have a very prominent crown of primrose-yellow stamens. A vigorous climber that produces an abundance of pretty flowers.
Awarded the RHS Award of Garden Merit
Launched by Thorncroft Clematis at Cheslea 2017.
The attractive double blue-purple flowers have a greeny-white tip to the tepals and appear from summer through to autumn. This stunning clematis will light up your patio when grown in a large container with good drainage.
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