Winter flowering Clematis cirrhosa ‘Wisley Cream’ brings a stylish ‘winter wonderland’ to your garden. Evergreen foliage provides the perfect foil to welcome a bright floral display at a notoriously sparse time of year. Usually flowering from January to March, in a mild winter the nodding blooms may even appear to give you extra spot of Christmas cheer. Fabulous trained up a trellis, warm wall or obelisk, you can alternatively allow this variety to scramble through large deciduous shrubs or trees for fairytale impact.
Clematis cirrhosa ‘Wisley Cream’ has been given the Award of Garden Merit by the Royal Horticultural Society for outstanding performance in the garden. It prefers to be grown in moist, well-drained soil of any kind except acidic. Position in sun or partial shade with its roots in cool shade. Use pebbles or stone if there is no convenient shade from other plants. A hardy (H4) climbing shrub which can tolerate temperatures down to -5 to -10°C – ideally with some shelter against a south facing wall or shrub, especially during exceptional periods of winter cold. Plants mature to 4 metres tall and spread 2.5 metres.
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