Clematis ‘Winter Treasures’ Collection 7/9cm X3

Brighten up the dark winter days with this wonderful collection of winter flowering Clematis.
This collection has been put together to fill your garden month after month of beautiful flowers from November right through to the following May, with beautiful, dainty nodding blooms make an appearance when your garden is at its dullest. Perfect for trailing up a trellis, pergola, fences, or any unsightly walls where they will clamber up and cover them with their gorgeous blooms.
Clematis’Early Sensation’ is an evergreen clematis which grows up to 3m (12ft) tall, with green, divided leaves that emerge with striking bronze tints for an early display of extra colour, making it a stunning centrepiece for your garden.
From March to May, ‘Early Sensation’ bursts into life, its clusters of delicately alluring, nodding flowers releasing a delicate, sweet fragrance into the air. The large (up to 7cm wide) cupped flowers are pure-white with a greenish-yellow centre.
A superb feature plant that flowers through the spring, Early Sensation is also remarkable for its evergreen leaves which provide year-round interest in your garden.
Robust and fully hardy, this clematis is highly ornamental over a long period and is always in demand and quite rightly so – plant it in free-draining soil by doorways or alongside pergolas to make the most of its pristine blooms and evocative fragrance.
Clematis ‘Freckles’ – ‘Freckles’ is a vigorous evergreen climber with attractive, 3-lobed, dark green leaves that shine with a bronze glow through the winter. The pale-yellow nodding flowers are heavily speckled with maroon and are produced from late autumn right through to spring and are followed with attractive, silky seed heads. Grows to 250cm (8ft) tall.
Clematis ‘Winter Beauty’ – With glossy dark green foliage, it looks stunning throughout the year, but it’s in December when the show really starts. Small, bell-shaped flowers emerge in clusters, gently nodding downwards. Opening one by one from pale green buds, they have a waxy look and are pure white with petals that are swept backwards at the tips. Grows to 3m (9.8ft) tall.
Supplied as 3 x established plants in 7/9cm pots, ready to plant out.

Top Tips

• Plant with the crown of the plant 5-8cm deep to encourage new shoots to grow from below ground level.Clematis like a cool ?root run? so try and plant so that the roots are shaded. If you are planting in a sunny position, place some pieces of slate or flat stones on the soil after planting or use groundcover plants to keep the roots cool.

Care Guide

• Feed in spring with a general-purpose feed, avoiding the stems. Mulch immediately afterwards with organic matter such as well-rotted manure, leaf mould or garden compost.
• Water regularly during periods of dry weather in the first few seasons after planting, especially for container plants.
• Clematis in pots should be given a liquid feed through the summer and early autumn.
• No regular pruning is required, but if necessary, prune immediately after flowering when the danger of frost has passed. Cut new plants back to just above a strong pair of leaf buds about 30cm (12in) above soil level to encourage multiple stems.
• Established plants just need overlong branches trimming back and any dead or winter-damaged shoots pruned back to a pair of healthy buds.