For every purchase of a Clematis Queen's Nurse EviGsy159, a donation of £2 will go directly to The National Garden Scheme and the Queen's Institute of Community Nursing.
Why 'Queen’s Nurse'?
The Queen's Institute of Community Nursing (QICN) charity can be traced back to 1887 with a grant of £70,000 by Queen Victoria from the Women’s Jubilee Fund. A Royal Charter in 1889 named it Queen Victoria’s Jubilee Institute for Nurses and gave it the objectives of providing the ‘training, support, maintenance and supply’ of nurses for the sick, poor, as well as establishing training homes and branches. In 1926, QICN Council Member Elsie Wagg came up with the idea to raise funds for the QICN by opening private gardens to the public. In June 1927, 349 private gardens opened, including Sandringham and Blenheim Palace. Members of the public paid one shilling each to enter. The scheme was so successful it continued into September, by which time over six hundred gardens had opened and over £8,000 raised.
Today the charity has been recognised as the official longest running charity, it continues to support community nurses to deliver a high-quality nursing which is available to everyone, where and when they need it. The National Garden Scheme (NGS) has been the biggest funder for the QICN over the years.
Here on Guernsey, Raymond J Evison CBE has worked with the Guernsey Queen’s Nurses to establish NGS. Clematis ‘Queen’s Nurse’ has been named to raise awareness of the outstanding work the Queen’s Nurses do in the community and the important and very successful link between NGS and QICN.
To find out more about these two amazing charities, please visit: ngs.org.uk qicn.org.uk
Description:
A full flower with each sepal having a broad central band of deep rosy pink with paler edges and prominent primrose anthers. These are produced in late spring and early summer, with repeat blooms in late summer early autumn. A full plant with flowers from base to tip. The modern clematis in the Raymond Evison Collection flower readily and will yield good results using relatively simple pruning techniques. In late winter/early Spring simply reduce all stems down to 6" (15cm) of soil level. The flowers from the older wood are deeper almost solid in colour, whereas the blooms from new growth show a distinctive deep pink bar with lighter pink edged tepals.
Official public launch will be at The RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026.
