a ranunculaceous Old World climbing plant, Clematis vitalba, having white flowers and heads of feathery plumed fruits
Also called: old man's beard
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The first greenish-white flowers of traveller's joy are climbing over the hedges.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Another vigorous climbing plant, which is now common along roadside hedgerows, is traveller's joy.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Another climber now making its appearance there is traveller's joy.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
When traveller's joy turns to feathery seed, its name changes to old man's beard.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
What looks more romantic than an autumn hedgerow covered in traveller's joy?
Times, Sunday Times (2018)
The white trumpets of larger bindweed still clamber breezily over the hedges, alongside the green flowers of traveller's joy.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Traveller's joy, with its starry, greenish-white flowers, has started to clamber over hedges, and will often end up in the branches of the hedgerow trees.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
The other name, traveller's joy, makes more sense in summer, when the real flowers adorn the hedges along the lanes.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
The creamy-green flowers of traveller's joy have been sprawling over hedges, and climbing tall trees even to the very top, for the past two months.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
A genuinely wild creeper that is sprawling over hedges, and also climbing into trees, is traveller's joy.