Clematis can be deciduous or evergreen shrubs or herbaceous perennials, mostly climbing by twining leaf-stalks, and often with showy flowers. Some have attractive fluffy seed-heads in autumn
Double-flowered Viticella Group clematis are deciduous climbing shrubs with usually pinnate leaves, and nodding, open-bell-shaped flowers of small to medium-size, produced on the current year's growth in summer and early autumn
'Purpurea Plena Elegans' is a vigorous, deciduous climber. Distinctive very double, dusky-purple flowers to 5cm in width, paler in centre. Flowers mid summer to early autumn