Evison’s expertise is the draw for clematis lovers

Monday 21st April 2008, 2:29PM BST.

Guernsey Clematis owner Raymond Evison kept a small group enthralled when they toured the Vale site to start Floral Guernsey Spring Festival Week. (Pictures by Steve Sarre, 0565774)

FLORAL Guernsey Spring Festival Week is under way.

It started on Saturday morning with a container workshop at Queux Patio Plants and a guided tour of Guernsey Clematis Nursery by Royal Horticultural Society gold award winner Raymond Evison.

He showed visitors the newest variety, named Rebecca after his eldest daughter. It will be on display at the Chelsea Flower Show next month.

‘It will be launched on 19 May. It’s a clematis that is ideal for today’s modern and more compact garden and maintains its colour very well.’