This volunteer event is an opportunity for new and regular volunteers to work together as a group to maintain the garden. Needed instructions on how to perform the activity wlll be given. Plenty of activities will be available for different abilities and interests but as much as possible we will work as a group.

We will work for 2 hours, take a break, and then continue for another 1.5 hours.

What you’ll need:

• Garden-friendly clothes

• Sun protection

• Water

• Snack or lunch for breaktime.

  If you can only attend part of the day, the morning is easier to join but we will accomodate the hours you are available to help as best as we can.

To sign up please email Sophie Bayard at frccvolunteer@gmail.com

Thank you for your support of the garden!

In 2025 we celebrate the 20th anniversary of breaking ground at the Rogerson Clematis Garden.

Our Quarterly Member Events for 2025, presented by FRCC curator Linda Beutler, follow the development of the garden from 2005 to present day.

The second Member Event follows the redesign and planting of the Beech Tree’s Garden as we know it now, the planning and planting of The Orchard including the Founder’s Garden, the visit of the International Clematis Society in 2010, the 40th anniversary celebration of the collection’s founding in 2011, and the vastly improved Orchard paths installed in 2012.

A Zoom link will be sent out prior to the event.

Register here.

Docent: a person who leads guided tours especially through a museum, art gallery or botanical garden.

Soon there will be more people visiting the Rogerson Clematis Garden, so it’s time to brush up on those docent skills or get trained to become a docent for the 2025 season.

If you wish to attend the training, please contact Susan Toler, FRCC Site Manager.

Plant materials for this project are similar to those of the fabulous hanging baskets on Lake Oswego city streets. Plants, baskets, planting materials, and maintenance instructions are provided. Select from plant materials suited for sun or shade. Leave with your own beautiful creation! 

Instructor: Kathy Whitman

THIS CLASS IS CLOSED

Plant materials for this project are similar to those of the fabulous hanging baskets on Lake Oswego city streets. Plants, baskets, planting materials, and maintenance instructions are provided. Select from plant materials suited for sun or shade. Leave with your own beautiful creation! 

Instructor: Kathy Whitman

$25 for general public, $10 for FRCC members, free for FRCC Patron and Duchess of Waverly members. There is an additional $35 materials fee for all attendees.

We are selling clematis at this annual event! More information at Hortlandia.

We are selling clematis at this annual event! More information at Hortlandia.

Linda will be presenting various methods of propagating clematis.

Learn how to create beauty in your garden and bring it indoors. In the first class in this series you’ll learn when, where, and what to plant. Planting lists and ideas provided. A second class later in the season covers how to harvest your blooms and arrange them like an expert. 

Instructor: Whitman

Class limit 12, minimum 6. Registration closes March 19.

Our curator, Linda Beutler, will be making a presentation on “Why Public Garden, and why Clematis?” The location will be announced at a later date.

This is a free webinar from the International Clematis Society (I.Cl.S) open to the public.

Our curator, Linda Beutler, together with Ken Black from the UK, will show you how to select a healthy specimen and find a good place for it in your garden, and more…

Examples of what will be covered:

• how and when to plant

• siting clematis in the garden

• fertilization

• pruning

• mulching

Zoom link: https://swarthmore.zoom.us/j/81868160277

The span of Valentine's Day to St. Patrick's Day is the sweet spot for pruning large-flowered hybrid clematis. You will have hands-on training in hard pruning, grooming, and tidying techniques for maximizing spring and summer bloom. Information coincides with the On Pruning Clematis handout. Bring your favorite light-duty hand pruners; all other materials provided. Dress for the weather.This is an outdoor class. Age 18+

Instructors: Beutler/Toler

$25 for general public, $10 for FRCC members, free for FRCC Patron and Duchess of Waverly members

Class limit 12, minimum 6. Registration closes February 19.

FRCC Patron and Duchess of Waverly members register here.

In 2025 we celebrate the 20th anniversary of breaking ground at the Rogerson Clematis Garden.

Our Quarterly Member Events for 2025, presented by FRCC curator Linda Beutler, follow the development of the garden from 2005 to present day.

The first Member Event begins with “Into Safe Hands: The Beginnings 2005-2007”, followed by a second presentation, “Clematis in New Zealand”, chronicling the native clematis Linda saw on her trip to New Zealand in November 2024, as well as the many cultivars seen in public and private gardens.

A Zoom link will be sent prior to the event.

Members register here.

This webinar, presented by the International Clematis Society is open to the public. Mike Miller will discuss the following:

• how to identify viable clematis seed;

• different methods of sowing the seed (peeling vs. not peeling, cold stratification requirements, etc.);

• growing on the germinated seed to maturity;

• results from species seed vs. hybrids; and

• the International Clematis Society’s Seed Exchange Program.

This presentation will be followed by a panel discussion on 'Getting Clematis to Rebloom’, featuring Deborah Hardwick, Fiona Woolfenden and own very own Susan Toler.

Zoom Link to the Webinar:

https://swarthmore.zoom.us/j/81003066243

Troughs are great for growing alpine, miniature, and high alkaline soil-loving plants in sun or shade. Learn the why and how of making troughs and leave with a new trough ready for you to unmold and finish at home, with all materials provided.  

Instructor: Beutler/Toler

.CLASS IS CLOSED

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Please join us for our annual membership meeting and election of new Board members.

We have invited Valarie Rundquist, Senior Program Officer of Endowment Partners of the Oregon Community Foundation (OCF) to speak to us about the FRCC endowment and how the OCF helps us to build a strong future for FRCC and the RCG. Linda Beutler will also be showing slides from her trip to the Loire Valley in France this year with the International Clematis Society (ICLS). You will hear from Board leaders and committees, elect new Board members, and help us celebrate the 2024 FRCC Volunteer of the Year, Diana Breen.

Details of the open Board positons are in the October enewsletter.

Please consider serving on a committee or on the FRCC Board of Directors to help develop a new strategic plan and create a clear path into the future. Thank you for every minute and every dollar you spend supporting the Rogerson Clematis Garden and Collection.

Register here.

Learn techniques for saving and harvesting clematis seed, how to clean, store and start them, and which species need soaking or a false period of cold to germinate. All materials and seeds are provided, and you'll leave with seeds started and surplus seeds to grow on your own. 

Instructor: Beutler/Toler

CLASS CANCELED

Patron and Duchess of Waverly members,

Not a member?

This event begins with a walk-about, celebrating the late and reblooming elder statesmen clematis in the garden. But this time we will walk slowly and develop an autumn/winter “to-do” list. Attendees will join in an assessment of the year’s successes, failures, what to correct, what to divide or transplant (and when), what to prune immediately and what should wait, and to think about container placement. As RCG tasks are evaluated, this is a chance for members to ponder what needs doing in their own gardens and make a schedule of their own.

Members may bring one guest at a cost of $5. This fee will be deducted from the guest's membership should they join at the event.

REGISTER HERE

Learn how to equip your garden with color throughout the seasons – yes, even winter! We will review gardens in all seasons and how to keep it interesting whatever the weather. Plant lists for specific uses and challenges will be presented and discussed. Class will be held in the Bunkhouse. 

Instructor: Kathy Whitman

$25 for general public, $10 for FRCC members, free for Patron and Duchess members  

Class limit 10. Registration closes October 10.

Patron and Duchess of Waverly members, REGISTER HERE.

Not a member? Join here for more member benefits!

Shop at the Terrace in our garden for the latest plants we have in stock or pick up plants that were ordered online. This is the last day for onsite sales and online pick-up! Visit our Clematis Sales page.

We will look at 2024's peak bloom that occurred in early July, featuring our oldest clematis from the original 2004 inventory. I will then repeat a Founder's Garden presentation originally given pre-COVID as an in-person event that was not recorded, and now will be. There will be a break at around 10:30am. A Zoom link will be emailed to you prior to the event.

REGISTER HERE

On a walk through the garden learn what, when, and how to prune your clematis for fall blooms. Attendees discover how to make their clematis into multi-season performers!

Instructors: Beutler/Toler

$25 for general public, $10 for FRCC members, free to Patron and Duchess of Waverly members

Registration for this class is CLOSED.