What they lack in form and substance, clematis make up for in brilliant, bountiful flowers

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For flower power, particularly in a small garden, there is nothing to beat clematis. There are a few with handsome leaves, such as the evergreen early flowering C. armandii, but for the most part, flowers are all they have got. Form, and substance, can be borrowed from other shrubs. Clematis look good when they are scrambling through some obliging neighbour.










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