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...
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
This delightful new evergreen climbers produces beautiful creamy-white flowers against a backdrop of rich green foliage. The blooms are gently nodding and bell-shaped with a hint of pink to the tips of the filaments at the centre. A charming and prolific winter flowering evergreen clematis that prefers a sunny location and requires a free draining soil.
The star-like blooms have rich mauve-pink margins and bright ruby-red bars. The perfect gift for that special 40th Wedding Anniversary.
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 greenish-cream nodding bell-shaped flowers have long reddish-pink anthers. The foliage is winter-green, it has a period of dormancy in the summer when it can lose its leaves. *Click the image to see some IMPORTANT! cultivation information!
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.
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
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.
One of my all time favourite honeysuckle, Lonicera purpusii fragrantisima has dainty white flowers with a strong scent through the winter months and is loved by solitary bees especially on a mild winters day. It's winter flowering nature makes it a very attractive plant to provide year round interest and it is worth noting that it requires free draining soil to do its best for you.
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.
The nodding bell-shaped flowers are pale lime green when first open maturing to yellowy-cream. This is one of, if not the hardiest of evergreen clematis and the leaves are serrated which adds further to its attraction.
An evergreen climber that requires a sunny, sheltered position and free draining soil. Also known as cirrhosa 'Ourika Valley'.
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
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