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Clematis 'The President'

Large purple-blue flowers with paler bar and pinky-white filaments and red anthers. Early flowers can sometimes be semi-double (first photograph). The variety has received the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.

Group:	Early large-flowered group
Approximate height: The heights given here are for guidance only. Much depends on the growing conditions of individual specimens.	2.0 - 4.0 metres
Flowering period(s): Warning: the months here are approximate for the northern hemisphere: users south of the equator should add approximately 6 months so that July becomes January etc.	Jun Jul Sep Oct
Aspect:	Any aspect
Pruning:	Light prune (Group 2)
Raised by:	Charles Noble
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Date raised: r=raised s=selected f=first flowered n=named i=introduced b=before c=about	rb 1873 ic1876
Parentage: (s) = seed parent	'Jackmanii' x C. patens seedling
Other name(s):	'President'; 'Président
Further detail:	Flower diameter: 13-20cm Tepals: 6-8; 6.5-8.5cm long, 3.5-4.5cm wide, ovate to elliptic, overlapping, long-pointed, margin slightly wavy Leaves: simple or ternate