Clematis florida var. sieboldiana: Best for hot climates, the flowers have big, creamy white sepals surrounding ornate, rich purple and green centers on a vine 4 to 10 feet tall.

Producing walls of colour over a long period, clematis are essential garden climbers. Hazel Sillver looks at some of the best ...

Planting a new flowering vine quickly livens up your garden for summer. It can be as simple as adding an obelisk in an existing garden bed and planting a four- to six- foot-tall clematis at its base.

A new clematis should be well-watered, but not overfed. Once established, it will respond well to rose or tomato food, or any fertilizer in the range of 5-10-5 or 5-10-10 or good compost or ...

QUESTION: My clematis didn’t bloom this year. Should it be cut back? ANSWER: Now that your clematis is totally dormant, you can cut it back severely, as much as 12 to 18 inches tall.

Wine-purple flowers appear on plants 2-4 feet tall. Clematis heracleifolia, tube clematis, is unlike any other clematis you’ve grown, with blue-purple tubular flowers on a 3-foot tall shrub.