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Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit
Clematis ‘Ernest Markham’ is a showy, perennial, large-flowered clematis offering midsummer to early fall interest. Vigorous and extremely floriferous, the plant sets masses of large, 4- to 6-inch, magenta flowers with blunt tips and a frilly center of chocolate anthers. The single, 6-petaled flowers have wavy-edged, recurved petals that give the blooms a rounded shape. The plant blooms on new wood, and at maturity, the vine is fully covered in flowers that attract bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds.
A fast-growing, deciduous climbing vine, Clematis ‘Ernest Markham’ has a compact, twining, and trailing growth habit of bright green leaves that stays fresh and attractive all season. There is an old saying about clematis’ growth rate: The first year they sleep, the second year they creep, and the third year they leap. Train clematis to climb a trellis, arbor, post, or fence, adding