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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The early blooms are double or semi-double, single later. They are deep mid-blue with a hint of pink.
Lonicera x heckrottii Gold Flame has wonderfully scented pink flowers with a peachy-orange throat, which are produced in great abundance across the plant. It benefits from a free draining soil or one which has had drainage improved and will give a stronger fragrance in a sunny location but will cope with part shade.
Awarded the RHS Award of Garden Merit
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
Glorious vibrant red margins merge to deep rose-pink at the centre and have a prominent crown of contrasting yellow stamens. Always a stunning sight on our Chelsea displays.
Received a Top Award in a Popular Garden Magazine Dec 2020.
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.
Clematis Sugar Sweet Blue - 'Scented Clem'. Enchanting, lilac blue star shaped flowers have a superb almond scent which is particularly good in the evening and early morning.
The bright purply-cerise star-shaped blooms merge to pale lilac-mauve bars which are offset by a glorious crown of bright yellow stamens. Some people can detect a slightly spicy scent.
The delightful semi-nodding flowers have light purply-red margins that gently merge to white bars. It has distinctive pale green stamens with deep purply-red tips.
'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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Light mauvy-blue, early double blooms are rosette like in form and are produced in great numbers from May to September. The later blooms have a spiky centre to the double heads.
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.
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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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 TSUKIKO 'Evipo110' has beautifully elegant white flowers have a pointed tip and occasionally display a subtle mauve blush at the middle of the tepal and deep crimson anthers at the centre.
Bred by Raymond Evison of Guernsey.
The delightful lilac coloured blooms have bright carmine-red bars and butter yellow stamens. Launched by Raymond Evison at the 2016 RHS Chelsea
A wonderful old clematis that has dark purply-blue flowers, maturing to mid-blue with a slightly paler bar. Its early flowers often have a rosy-purple bar which gradually fades as the blooms mature.
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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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.
Striking and exotic flowers of striking candy pink have a narrow dark bar down the centre. Multiple layers make this a fully double spiky bloom that will please the eye of any gardener.
Gold Medal Award - Garden Trial & Trade, Netherlands
Clematis Purple Spider has semi-double nodding bell-shaped blooms that are very dark purple, almost black when first open. A favourite in the family and a very distinct colour for the time of year it blooms. Looks wonderful with daffodils growing at the base.
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