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.
We do offer a Click & Collect service though! - Find out more...
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 blue hyacinth shaped flowers are borne in clusters and have a gorgeous perfume. This clump-forming clematis has erect woody stems and requires free draining soil.
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
Little Lemons is an extraordinary new introduction from our friends at Jan van Zoest clematis nursery in The Netherlands.
Dainty yellow flowers are 1-1.5 inches across and produced in great abundance on short stems of 25-30cm. The flower leaves a wonderful glossy seedhead and it blooms semi-continuously from the late spring to early autumn.
The purest, clearest 'true blue' clematis there is, its glorious flowers have contrasting pale yellow stamens. A very compact, free-flowering climber, perfect for pots and an extremely good candidate for a north wall.
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 pale pink flowers have a pretty satin sheen and a lovely vanilla perfume. Over the years this has proven to be one of the most popular montana's. Grow in a sunny position to enhance the perfume.
Awarded the RHS Award of Garden Merit
clematis Wesselton has light to mid blue, semi-double, nodding, bell-shaped flowers which are larger than those of C. macropetala species. Named after a village in Suffolk.
'Recommended' by a Popular Garden Magazine Dec 2020.
Awarded the RHS Award of Garden Merit
The gorgeous white flowers of this new clematis are very deeply textured with crimped, wavy margins & cream anthers. It has been named in honour of Prince George, son of Prince William the Prince of Wales.
clematis Advent Bells has a charming cream flower, very heavily freckled and striped inside with red, will provide a great profusion of dainty hanging blooms during the winter months. Even more abundant than the ever popular Freckles.
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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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
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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This eye-catching clematis has rich deep pink trumpet shaped flowers with paler mauve-pink margins.
The blooms are just delightful and carry on well into the autumn giving a long period of interest for the gardener.
Awarded the RHS Award of Garden Merit
Pretty pale bluey-mauve nodding bell-shaped flowers, whose pointed tips open and twist slightly to reveal a deeper bluey-mauve and textured inside. The delicate perfume is more noticeable when planted in the sun.
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.
Star-shaped flowers of deep purply-blue are produced in great abundance on this compact and prolific scrambling clematis. Violetta can also be trained up a short support or allowed to cascade over a short wall and the flowers last well if you like to cut flowers for the home.
clematis Arabella has mid mauvy-blue flowers with a hint of a rose pink bar when first open.
A long standing favourite of our family and one that has done really well in our garden.
Awarded the RHS Award of Garden Merit
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.
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