General Info	RHS AGM, Wildlife Value
Shade	Full Sun, Partial Shade
Area	Exposed Windy Areas, Frost Pockets, Scotland & The North
Soil	Good, Well Drained, Alkaline/Chalky, Poor/Dry
Colour	Yellow/Gold
Type	Climber or Rambler, Pot Grown
Ornamental	Seedheads
Flowering	Aug, Sep, Oct

Clematis tangutica Bill Mackenzie

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Clematis tangutica 'Bill Mackenzie'

Clematis tangutica Bill Mackenzie is a large, vigorous climber which dazzles with a summer abundance of modestly sized, bright yellow nodding flowers over your wall, trellis, hedges or trees.
A later flowering variety, this is a great choice for adding interest to the garden in the waning summer and autumn months. With fine cut leaves and thick curled back, bell-shaped flowers, stiff like orange-peel, they are real charmers. The flowers go on to become delightful very large feathery seed heads for the rest of the year.

Browse our varieties of clematis or our full range of climbing plants.

Features:

Bell-shaped bright yellow flowers
Unscented
Flowers July-September
Lovely large silvery seed heads through winter
Height up to 8m
Spread up to 4m
Tolerates hard winters and wind
Pruning group 3
Type: Tangutica
Habit: Climber
RHS Award of Garden Merit

Growing Bill Mackenzie Clematis

It will be happiest in alkaline or neutral soil and will do well in full sun or partial shade in any aspect. Appreciates a good feed and regular watering. Shade the base with other low growing plants. Prune hard in late winter.

Look out for:

Largely disease free. There may be the occasional bit of damage from earwigs and aphids but Bill Mackenzie is largely trouble free and easy to grow.

Did You Know?

Also known as 'orange peel' clematis, for its thick, curled flowers. It was created by Valerie Finnis (1924-2006), a renowned plantswoman (and an exceptional plant photographer), and is a cross-breed of Clematis orientalis and Clematis tangutica

Finnis named the cross after her 'great friend and mentor', Bill Mackenzie (1904-1995), who was Curator at the Chelsea Physic Garden. He had spotted an unusually vigorous seedling during a visit to the Waterperry Horticultural School for Women near Oxford, where Finnis studied and then worked. They shared a love of Alpines.

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Delivery: Our standard delivery charges are:

Small box (orders containing only seedlings or rooted cuttings) = £7.20 (inc VAT) per order. Free delivery for orders over £60 (inc VAT)
Standard box (bareroot plants up to 1.2metres) = £11.40 (inc VAT) per order. Free delivery for orders over £60 (inc VAT)
Large box (pots up to and including 7.5 litres) = £15.00 (inc VAT) per order. Free delivery for orders over £100 (inc VAT)
Trees & hedging (bareroot plants and trees over 1.2 metres in height) = £19.80 (inc VAT) per order.
Orders delivered to Scotland and the Isle of Wight may incur a surcharge (calculated during checkout). This is applicable to ALL orders to these locations.
Pallets (for all orders of root balls, and large orders, a pallet price will be automatically applied at checkout) = £75.00 (inc VAT) per order.
If, for reasons of seasonality an order needs to be split, then we will charge for each delivery. If the whole order was eligible for free P&P then the second of the split orders will be delivered free of charge.

*Surcharges to the Highlands and Islands still apply.

Because couriers sometimes experience delays, we schedule delivery by week, not by day. Therefore, please plan your planting day for the weekend at the end of the delivery week or for the week following delivery, at the earliest.
We will email you the day before your plants are due to arrive.

Payment: We do not charge your card until we begin to prepare your order for packing.

Guarantee: If any plants die within a year, we will replace them. We only ask that you follow our planting & growing instructions and sent us clear photographs of the dead plants in situ, so we can help to make sure that the replacement plants succeed. You only pay for the delivery of the replacements.

Please note that our guarantee is void if there is a hosepipe ban in your area: your newly planted hedging must be watered in dry weather while it is establishing. The best way to water is very thoroughly every few days: at least once a week in summer if there is no heavy rain.

Our nursery has been supplying container grown and bareroot hedging plants to gardeners, farmers and town planners since 1949. Our website started in 2003, so we do understand the concerns that you may have about buying hedging plants online. If any of your plants are damaged when they arrive or if you are otherwise not satisfied with your order after you inspect it, please repackage it and contact us. We will give you a refund or send replacements and send a courier to come and collect the unwanted plants.

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