Herbaceous clematis flowers

These creeping plants will give a new dimension to your borders

It might seem a contradiction to have a clematis that doesn't twine. In fact, there are quite a few that don't, but that doesn't make them any less effective garden plants. Many are exceptionally beautiful, offering effects and traits that other clambering types don't, including, in the case of C. recta 'Purpurea', foliage effect.

The group spans species from different countries and habitats as well as hybrids, making them a really diverse group, from the stout, woody clump of late-summer flowering C. heracleifolia, through slender, floppy-stemmed C. texensis, with flask shaped flowers, to the upright, herbaceous stems of C.recta, with a blizzard of small white flowers in high summer.