Clematis 'The President'

Clematis 'the president', also called bos rank in Dutch, is a deciduous climbing plant with a strong upright growth. The leaves are composed of lanceolate dark green leaflets. This woodland vine flowers in June and July and again in September and October with large, purple-blue flowers with pink-white filaments and red stamens. Clematis 'the president' likes a position sheltered from wind in partial shade or full sun and requires a neutral to calcareous, well-drained soil. This late-flowering clematis is good to very hardy, attracts butterflies and bees and is suitable for wall planting, trellis or pergola vegetation.