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
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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
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
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.
This is our selection of the species macropetela. This form has light to mid blue semi-double nodding bell-shaped flowers that are borne in abundance throughout the spring.
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.
Solanum crispum Glasnevin is an impressive evergreen climber which will produce a mass of rich purple-blue flowers with a yellow centre in the summer, occasionally paler blue on sandy soils. It is a strong grower which benefits from being allowed to grow rather than being contained by pruning.
Awarded the RHS Award of Garden Merit
The dark purple flowers have a slight reddish-purple bar which fades to bluey-purple as the blooms mature. An excellent choice to give later flowers in your garden.
'Recommended' by a Popular Garden Magazine Dec 2020.
Awarded the RHS Award of Garden Merit
The nodding bell-shaped flowers are pale violet-blue and produced in great profusion across the plant. A charming climber that is excellent as a companion plant and sometimes quite hard to find.
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
The glamorous pure white star-shaped blooms have a blush of pink at the base of their tepals when first open. Their distinctive crimped margins and contrasting dark burgundy-red stamens complete the picture brilliantly.
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
The clusters of small white star-like flowers have a sweet hawthorn scent. Clematis flammula is a semi-evergreen climber which requires free draining
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
The dainty nodding bell-shaped flowers are pure white and have a waxy texture. The attractive foliage is evergreen and the plant benefits from free-draining soil.
The rounded creamy-white blooms have a primrose-yellow bar when first open. Particularly good for a shady aspect and will benefit from dead-heading.
With slender, twining stems and glossy green leaves, Solanum jasminoides Album is an evergreen climber which will cover itself in glorious clusters of bright white, scented star-shaped flowers in the summer and autumn. A strong growing plant that is difficult to contain by pruning so give it space to spread and go wild!
Awarded the RHS Award of Garden Merit
The long trumpet shaped scarlet red flowers of Lonicera x brownii Dropmore Scarlet have bright orange throats and last from mid summer to late autumn meaning it is one of our longest flowering honeysuckle. It benefits from a free draining soil to do its best although any soil that has the drainage improved should be fine.
The charming light mauve-pink nodding bell-shaped flowers have paler margins and strongly recurved tips revealing the deep purply-pink inside. Looks stunning growing up through an obelisk. Also good as cut flowers.
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.
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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