Any recomendations for a lovely clematis

[tigi]

I want to plant it to climb through a white climbing iceberg rose, so something pretty, that grows well, looks nice with white.
Not a montana one, and not keen on red (not with white anyway) thanks

[thefuturesbright]

perpura plena is my favourite - it's a dusky purple one with lots of layers. Or Niobe or Rhapsody, both strong colours. You won't find a really red clematis, luckily!

[flipflopper]

My clematis is called miss bateman, it has white flowers and flowers in spring then again in late summer/autumn.
I hack it back every winter and it comes back, so must be doing something right wiht it!

[kid]

I have a very healthy Hydrangea or something like that climbing up a trellis in my garden. I have no idea what colour the flowers are though as I am waiting for those to appear.

[viticella]

I've inherited the garden of a clematis enthusiast, there are at least a dozen.

A really pretty large-flowered one is "Fireworks" - purple flowers and very reliable, Kept flowering all summer last year. "Ville de Lyon" is also very pretty purple and widely available.

Viticella purpurea plena elegans (guess what was flowering outside the window when I signed up to MN) is the sort which needs to be cut down to a foot high each February, might be difficult to disentangle from your rose bush. It's very vigorous but flowers late, July/August.

I love climbing iceberg, my favourite rose!

[Flowertots]

Be very careful with Clematis!!!

When we bought our house 2 years ago we spotted this very unusal tree full of flowers. We had out garden recently landscaped and our gardener told us that the tree used to be a pear tree but had been killed by the clematis planted too close to it...be warned!!!

[thefuturesbright]

um - i have never heard of a clematis killing anything, not sure about this!