Plant materials for this project are identical to those in the fabulous hanging baskets on our 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: Whitman

CLASS IS NOW CLOSED

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Plant materials for this project are identical to those in the fabulous hanging baskets on our 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: Whitman

CLASS IS NOW CLOSED

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Susan T. will be giving training to future docents of the Rogerson Clematis Garden. Meet at the greenhouse.

We are combining opening onsite sales day and a Members Only Event! As always, FRCC members will shop early on opening day (from 9:00am, with sales opening to the public at 10:00am). After you’ve shopped, join Linda at 10:30am for a garden walk-about, looking at some of our oldest clematis in the Montana and Atragene sections of the genus. You can always go back and shop again for the charmers you’ll see on the walk-about.

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

We will be selling plants at Garden Palooza. Visit the Garden Palooza website for more details.

We will be selling plants at Garden Palooza. For more details, visit the Garden Palooza website.

Visit the Hardy Plant Society’s Hortlandia 2024 Spring Plant Sale page for more details.

Visit the Hardy Plant Society’s Hortlandla page for more details.

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

THIS CLASS HAS BEEN CANCELLED due to insufficient registration.

Save the Date! Visit the Plant Nerd Night Afternoon website for more details.

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 Pruning information sheet under Clematis/Clematis Care on the website. Bring your favorite light-duty hand pruners; all other materials provided. Dress for the weather. Note: This is an outdoor class.

Instructors: Beutler/Toler

$25.00 for non-members/general public, $10.00 for FRCC members, free to FRCC Patron and Duchess of Waverly members. Class limit: 12

Patron and Duchess of Waverly members, REGISTER HERE.

Registration closes Feb 20, 2024.

This webinar, offered by the International Clematis Society (I.Cl.S.), is open to members and the public. The webinar speakers are Linda Beutler, our curator, and Maurice Horn.

“Often even accomplished gardeners are not aware that not all clematis climb. The most noteworthy of these non-climbing herbaceous perennials is Clematis integrifolia. It was one of the first species to be used in European clematis breeding (often with Clematis viticella), and it consorts well with the oriental large-flowered species in interesting and beautiful ways. This presentation will examine this history of this hardiest of species, how to use it in gardens, and the amazing hybrids and selections available today.” (From IClS announcement).

Share this Zoom link with friends and colleagues who might be interested:

https://swarthmore.zoom.us/j/85379375255

This event was originally scheduled for Jan. 20, 2024. If you have registered, it is not necessary to re-register again.

From 10-11am, Linda will repeat the Member’s Only nomenclature presentation that was given pre-COVID and pre-Zoom and has never been available for replay on the Member’s Only web page. This will be followed at 11:15am by a shorter presentation on the Beginning and History of the RCG Database/Accessions List. This may sound a bit dry, but we promise lots of pretty or fun pictures, maybe both! A Zoom link will be sent out prior to the meeting.

REGISTER HERE

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

Instructors: Beutler/Toler

$30 for general public, $15 for FRCC Members, free for Patron and Duchess level FRCC Members. Patron and Duchess level members, register here.

Not a member? Join now!

Class limit: 12

CLASS FULL - REGISTRATION NOW CLOSED

The International Clematis Society (I.Cl.S) will be celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2024 with a trip to the Loire Valley in France.

Linda Beutler, our curator, and Jeff Jabco, both past U.S. I.Cl.S presidents., will discuss the itinerary and details of the Society's trip to Loire Valley in France from 7-15 June 2024. Working along with Brightwater as the tour operator for the past few months, they will be prepared to talk specifics of the chateaux, gardens, nurseries, and wineries to be visited between the base cities of Tours and Orleans. 

The complete written itinerary with payment details will be emailed or posted to all members in early December 2023. The trip size is limited and is expected to be 30-40 members.  

Zoom link to the Webinar:

https://swarthmore.zoom.us/j/87556148980

World-renowned Polish clematis breeder, Szczepan Marczyński will be talking about his 30 year of clematis breeding work at the nursery CLEMATIS Źródło Dobrych Pnączy (CLEMATIS The Source of Good Climbers) near Warsaw, Poland:.

He will show a new video about his work and discuss his goals in breeding good clematis. Szczepan will end this live webinar by answering questions about clematis and his breeding work. Some of the clematis cultivars that Szczepan is most noted for are: C. 'Solidarnosc', C. 'Sweet Summer Love', C. 'Morning Sky', and C. 'Beautiful Bride'.

This webinar is open to the public as well as to International Clematis Society members:
https://swarthmore.zoom.us/j/89501879679

Learn techniques for saving and harvesting clematis seeds, 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 CANCELLED

Treat every tool to a thorough cleaning and inspection at the end of the growing season before storing it. Bring gloves and one small hand tool. We’ll show you the materials needed and how to be ready for the next season!

Instructors: Toler/Breen

$25 for general public, $10 for FRCC members, free for Patron and Duchess level members. Patron and Duchess level members, register here.

Not a member? Join now!

Class limit: 12

THIS CLASS HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

Please join us for our Annual Membership Meeting,

We have one open Director position on the slate. Nominations are allowed from the floor at the meeting on October 14, 2023. If you would like to be considered for a Board position and have questions, please contact Amy Chase Herman. Details of the election slate can be found in a recent email sent to members.

Lunch, sweets, and drinks will be provided. The program includes opening remarks from the FRCC President and others, committee reports, guest speakers Maurice Horn (Joy Creek Nursery) and Linda Beutler (Curator of the Rogerson Clematis Collection), Volunteer of the Year Award, and election of officers and directors.

Watch your Inbox for more updates to the meeting, together with RSVP.

ANNOUNCING the END-OF-SEASON SPECIALS on October 7 only!

ALL 2-gallon clematis on the Sales Terrace will be $10 off! Yes, you read that right: regularly priced at $35, all 2-gallon clematis on the Sales Terrace will be $25! Get twice the plant for the regular 1-gallon price.

But wait…there’s more! We have some ‘Blue Light’ Specials! One-gallon plants of Clematis ‘Blue Light’ are $20 - that’s $5 off the regular price, a 20% discount. Also available for $20 are ‘Blue Ravine’, ‘Perle d’Azur’, and the non-climbing C. ✕ diversifolia ‘Olgae’.

FRCC Members can shop early beginning at 9 AM, and on this day only, members will get an additional $5 off your total purchase if you buy two or more clematis! We can't thank you enough for your continued support of North America's only accredited clematis collection. Join or renew 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 classroom.

Instructor: Beutler

$25 for the General Public, $10 for FRCC members, free for Patron and Duchess level FRCC members. Patron and Duchess level members, register here.

Not a member? Join now!

CLASS HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

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This is our annual celebration of all the hours that our volunteers have donated in support of the Rogerson Clematis Garden and the activities of the Friends of Rogerson Clematis Collection (FRCC).

The event will be at the Beech Tree’s Garden and the bunkhouse classroom at Luscher Farm. Refreshments and a light lunch will be provided including salads and sweets. The program will include short presentations and the announcement of the recipient of our 2023 Volunteer of the Year award. Each volunteer will receive a certificate to choose one clematis plant from the FRCC Terrace as a thank-you gift.

Please RSVP to Dina at dinastravel@msn.com

Let’s get potted: creating cordial container gardens with clematis and appropriately collegial companions. By now the RCG’s dedicated container gardening display area should be well underway. We will discuss autumn container planting, including perennials and woody plants that partner well with clematis in containers. We will gather under the Beech Tree.

Register here. Members are welcome to bring a guest, for $5 each, payable at the event.

Not a member? Join now so you won’t miss this event!

We are offering a work party on the last Saturday of the month during the summer for those who can’t volunteer on a weekday. Susan Toler, the FRCC site manager, will be there to show you the ropes! Activities include weeding, deadheading, watering & more! The garden is in full bloom and could use your TLC!

We are offering a work party on the last Saturday of the month during the summer for those who can’t volunteer on a weekday. Susan Toler, the FRCC site manager, will be there to show you the ropes! Activities include weeding, deadheading, watering & more! The garden is in full bloom and could use your TLC!

(9:00-10:00 AM Zoom, followed by shopping and wandering the garden with Linda B)

Summer’s High Society: taking a closer look at so-called ”late blooming” and reblooming clematis and their colleagues in the summer garden. Need to make some mid-season corrections? Have a wander through the morning garden and another shopping opportunity.

Register here. A Zoom link will be sent to you prior to the meeting.

Not a member? Don't worry ‒ join now so you won’t miss this event!

Come into the garden and learn what, when, and how to prune your clematis for fall blooms. Attendees discover how to make their clematis into multi-season performers! Pen and paper are advised for note taking. 

Instructor: Beutler/Toler

Class is now CLOSED

We are offering a work party on the 4th Saturday of the month during the summer for those who can’t volunteer on a weekday. Susan Toler, the FRCC site manager, will be there to show you the ropes! Activities include weeding, deadheading, watering & more! The garden is in full bloom and could use your TLC!