Give this low-maintenance, enthusiastic climbers a wall, fence, doorway or porch to grow up, and it will reward you with spectacular flowers
There might be fireworks in the skies this week, but unless your past self was very clever and planted all manner of jaunty things for autumn earlier in the year (I’m thinking of Cuphea cyanea, salvia, a Nerine or three, or some Hylotelephiums), chances are your garden is winding down.
In previous years I’ve succumbed to trays of pansies to cheer up tubs in November and December, but I’m moving away from short-lived plug plants – all that plastic, greenhouse heat and transport miles – and looking towards perennial solutions. For years I’ve contemplated planting autumn and winter-flowering clematis, and writing about them for you is probably the best accountability I could achieve.
