Four generations of Bradshaws have been involved in this family nursery. It specialises in growing and selling climbing plants and wall shrubs, and once held the National Collection of clematis and lonicera. The staff's expert advice and the catalogue's hints and descriptions are invaluable if you need help deciding what to plant and where. Every climber in the sales area is grown on the six-acre site and the business also supplies other nurseries. The plants are arranged alphabetically

in a twin-span polytunnel. There are several winter-flowering clematis among

the 250 listed: for instance, C. cirrhosa var purpurascens `Freckles' (right) produces cream flowers, ...