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Blackened crispy leaves are often due to a common fungal disease called clematis wilt. Large-flowered clematis are more prone to clematis...Read More
Awesome 7" violet, almost blue blooms with 8 petals pointed at the tips. The petals have a faint silvery center stripe laid on top of the...Read More
This is the only large-flowered clematis I've had success with in my years of trying to grow them here in North Texas. It must be in the...Read More
Received The Royal Horticultural Society, Award of Garden Merit (AGM) in 1993.
My neighbor and I both bought this clematis this spring and planted in good spots. Mine withered up and died a slow death within two mont...Read More
The president is a trooper. It does benefit from being cut back strongly in early spring. Flowering is delayed but the plant gets bushie...Read More
I have 'The President', along with 'Josephine', 'Niobi', 'H. F. Young', 'Multi-blue', and two new ones I just put in the ground this year.
My plant is now about 6 years old. I was hoping for more flowering; I don't know about cutting it back.