I used to have THE PRESIDENT years ago and love it. That stunning deep purple color. It died when I had some hardscape redone in my backyard. So now I Have it back.
I am really hopeless. I saw clematis at a local nursaery today and bought three of them. That in spite of the fact that I just planted 12 new ones yesterday. I bought MRS CHOLMONDELEY, NELLIE MOSER and WILL GOODWIN. The fist and last are shimmering light violet purple. Stunning. What I don't like about buying locally is that they never put the prunning group so I will have to look these all up.