CLEMATIS have played a large part in my life for many years. My great-uncle was John Treasure of Burford House Gardens in Worcestershire and his garden was dripping in clematis.
At 16, I started my gardening career working in his nursery. John was often described as the ‘Clematis King’ and even has one named after him – ‘John Treasure’. The clematis in John’s garden were, more often than not, planted through other shrubs. They were rarely pinned up uncomfortably against