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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The clusters of hyacinth shaped flowers are pale to light silvery-pink and makes an excellent 'front of border' plant. This clump-forming clematis has erect woody stems and requires free draining soil.
The bright yellow nodding lantern-shaped flowers are followed by beautiful silky seed-heads. Grow in a sunny position to enhance the coconut-like perfume. A favourite in our garden.
Also known as clematis tangutica Lambton Park.Awarded the RHS Award of Garden Merit
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.
Semi-double nodding bell-shaped flowers are very deep pink with creamy-white margins and inner layers. Clematis Propertius is unique because not only do you have spring flowers but a consistent summer flowering period too.
The early blooms of the creamy-white, star-shaped flowers can have a pink bar at first but this soon disappears as the flowers age.
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.
Sumptuous lantern-shaped flowers of deepest purple are very abundant and followed by attractive silvery seed-heads. This is a very regal looking plant in the garden and one of Peter's favourites.
Striking flowers of 4-6 inches across are a rich purply-blue and have a velvety wine red anther in the centre. They adorn the plant from top to bottom through May to July and once again in September.
Dainty nodding bell-shaped flowers of pure white have an occasional hint of blue at the base of the tepals and a sweet scent. A reliable performer and excellent herbaceous clematis.
The pretty semi-double flowers have a creamy-white base overlaid with deep salmon-pink. Best grown in a sunny position to enhance the colour of the blooms.
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
Clematis Early Sensation has 'female' flowers that are greeny-cream on opening, maturing to pure white. Grow near 'Avalanche' or 'Joe' to get amazing seed-heads!
Received a Top Award in a Popular Garden Magazine Dec 2020.
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 stunning cherry-red flowers have a broad pinkish-mauve bar that is overlaid with cherry-red veins. A classic clematis which will give a striking display in your garden.
The striking, slightly purply-red blooms have brighter red bars and a luxurious velvety sheen and complimentary deep red stamens. The flowers reverse has a distinct white bar.
The very deep mauvish-pink nodding bell-shaped flowers have light pink margins to their twisted tepals. A prolific and easy to grow form of the herbaceous integrifolia family.
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.
Dainty bell shaped flowers of white have a pale sky-blue at the 'crown' of the flower and the tepals gently twist towards the ends. In sunny conditions flowers become fully white.
A striking flower of rich purple that matures to cobalt blue as the flowers age and has contrasting white filaments with dark blue anthers. An excellent long summer flowering clematis from Wim Snoeijer that is useful for a gift.
The glossy dark violet-blue nodding bell-shaped flowers have paler margins. clematis Fascination has a subtle spicy scent when grown in sun.
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