The Friends of the Rogerson Clematis Collection present ‘INVITING VINES VI’, a tour of five private gardens in Southwest Portland and the Rogerson Clematis Collection garden at Luscher Farm in Lake Oswego on Saturday, May 25, 2013 from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm.

See how local Southwest Portland gardeners integrate the ‘Queen of Vines’ into their personal versions of paradise: from a suburban garden where dwarf conifers and other textural plants vie for attention with structures built from repurposed materials to two urban gardens in the John’s Landing neighborhood.

GARDEN DESCRIPTIONS

Ann Murphy, Marketing Director for the Oregon Association on Nurseries, opens her verdant and lush garden for the first time. Gravel walkways meander through this woodland under-story garden thriving beneath a canopy of firs and sequoias. Sunny spaces are devoted to raising food. A 1,500 gallon cistern resides under a deck capturing rainwater that is recycled in the dry season. Garden designer Susan Latourette’s garden features a raised summer house, circular fire pit and plants chosen for their textural attributes. In his 15 years spent transforming an over-sized city lot Rick Meigs has created an intimate sanctuary that celebrates and contrasts the forms, textures and shapes of the plants, each selected for what they contribute to the overall scene. In a garden designed to showcase diverse habitats, botanist Peter Goldblatt emphasizes small shrubs, bulbs, alpines and trailing plants among others. A beautiful hand built waterfall and pond transition from the sunny front garden to the back garden where plants that appreciate morning sun thrive. Across the street garden designer Anne Marsh and husband, Gary Fear, have constructed a garden around their house which dates from 1895. The double lot features a rock garden, ornamental trees and shrubs, a cottage garden and vegetable area. A stream and pond garden behind the house have a Japanese flair.

The Rogerson Clematis Collection Display Garden at Luscher Farm in Lake Oswego occupies a two-acre parcel surrounding a circa 1900 farmhouse. Garden areas include the Heirloom garden showcasing pre-World War I clematis, roses and cottage garden plants. The Beech Tree’s garden is home to Japanese clematis species and cultivars in a bird-friendly setting. The Front Bank features many North American native clematis while clematis from Eastern Europe inhabit the Balkan Garden. Easy to grow clematis thrive in the Beginner’s Garden and 40 favorites inhabit the Founder’s Garden. Clematis will be for sale in the greenhouse.

TICKET PURCHASE

Tickets may be purchased on-line using the button below, or at Dennis’ Seven Dees Nursery (Lake Oswego), Garden Fever Nursery (NE Portland), Portland Nursery (SE Stark St), Gardener’s Choice (Tigard), Joy Creek Nursery (Scappoose) and 13th St Nursery (Salem).

Inviting Vines VI is a benefit for the internationally acclaimed Rogerson Clematis Collection, a provisional member of the North American Plant Collections Consortium. The collection grows 700 taxa of clematis represented by over 1,500 plants.

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Please join us in supporting a fundraiser “Quest for Clematis” for the Friends of the Rogerson Clematis Collection on June 1 at the Northern Quest Pavilion from 9am-4pm. Northern Quest is located near the Spokane Airport at 100 N Hayford Rd, Airway Heights, WA 99001.

The morning portion of the event will consist of an Early Bird plant sale from 9-10am, and starting at 10am Linda Beutler will be giving two informative talks Cold Climate Clematis and Gardening with Clematis and Companion Plants. During the breaks there will be some exciting door and raffle prizes. The Friends of the Rogerson Clematis Collection is asking for an $8 donation for the morning portion of the event. Tickets will be available at the door, are available for advanced purchase on the FRCC website or from Linda Beutler, or in Spokane by calling or emailing James Earl at 509-496-5072 or james.earl@ihs.gov

The free public plant sale starts at 12pm and will run to 4pm. In addition to uncommon clematis for sale, Northland Rosarium will be there with a great selection of roses, which make great garden companions for clematis. Also, Billi Bellinger will be displaying and selling her hand made iron garden structures and sculpture. The Inland Empire Gardeners (TIEG) will also be at the event, as well and The Friends of Manito, The Spokane Rose Society, and Master Gardeners. The Spokane Master Composters have also been invited to set up a display and demonstration on home composting.

Please come out and support the event and bring a friend!

PURCHASE TICKETS ONLINE

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May 25, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM: Inviting Vines VI Open Gardens
This is our major fund raising event of the year and many volunteers (about 25) are needed. We greatly appreciate your assistance at the wonderful private gardens that are open for this event and at the Rogerson Clematis Collection. The experience will enrich you as a gardener and leave you with a lifetime of memories. Please join us. Clematis will be for sale.
Contact: Susan Toler sst0916@hotmail.com (preferred) or 503-642-5528 Leave a message.
June 1: FRCC Spokane Fundraiser / Kalispel Tribe (More Information coming)
Northern Quest Resort & Casino
100 North Hayford Rd., Airway Heights, WA 99001

FRCC takes its show on the road once again to the Spokane area to sell clematis, answer questions and for the curator, Linda Beutler of the Rogerson Clematis Collection, to give talks on the queen of the vines; clematis. Our volunteer of the year, James Earl, has worked with the Kalispel Tribe who in turn has generously donated funds for expenses.

June 23, 3:00 – 5:00 PM: HPSO Gen(i)us Program with Maurice Horn and Linda Beutler
HPSO has a double-hitter program! TWO genus geniuses will fight it out in the Clematis Challenge. Linda Beutler (Friends of Rogerson Clematis Collection) and Maurice Horn (Joy Creek Nursery) will reveal all about their favorite clematis for unique situations in the garden. This should be fun!
Multnomah Arts Center Directions
Doors open at 2:30 p.m. Program begins at 3 p.m.
$5 per ticket. Tickets available at the door only. Pay by cash or check.
Contact: HPSO office
Phone: (503) 224-5718
Email: events@hardyplantsociety.org

June 23, 5:00 – 8:00 PM: FRCC Open Garden with Joy Creek Nursery Plant Sale
An evening in the FRCC botanical gardens with both Joy Creek Nursery and the FRCC selling plants! The event is a continuation of the HPSO Gen(i)us Program listed above. Docents and volunteers needed to help show guests through the garden, answer questions and sell plants.
Contact: Susan Toler sst0916@hotmail.com (preferred) or 503-642-5528 and leave a message.
June 23, Noon – 1:00 PM: Tour
Willamette Valley Hardy Plant Group with Roger Gossler (approx. 30 visitors)
Docents and Volunteers needed

June 29, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM: Garden Conservancy HPSO Open Garden Day at the Rogerson Clematis Collection at Luscher Farm (More information coming)
Weather you come out to the garden in the morning or afternoon, there are always lovely treasures to find. Bring your camera, volunteer half the day and enjoy the rest. Five other gardens will be open besides the Rogerson Clematis Collection. We will need docents and volunteers (three hour shifts) to help with walking guests through the garden and selling plants.
Contact: Susan Toler sst0916@hotmail.com (preferred) or 503-642-5528 and leave a message.

ONGOING EVENTS AT THE FRCC COLLECTION AT LUSCHER FARM

Every Friday from 9:30 - 1:30. Work on the collection at Luscher Farm, both in the garden and in the greenhouse. It’s a great way to learn from the experts.
Contact: Donna Soderberg: 971-219-2504 or djwwjd7610@aol.com

Docent Day is every fourth (4th) Wednesday 10:00 – 1:30. Learn how to lead visitors through our Botanical Gardens & greenhouse at the Rogerson Clematis Collection.
Contact: Susan Toler 506-642-5528 or sst0916@hotmail.com

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Season’s greetings from your FRCC Officers, Directors and Curator,

It’s the time of year to be grateful for all that we have and to look forward to the future. For the Friends of the Rogerson Clematis Collection, this means saying thanks to all of you for your ceaseless support – the garden and collection wouldn’t be prospering without you.

Thanks to our founder and the efforts of our volunteers, members and curator, the collection is recognized and celebrated throughout the country and the world. All the positive reports by visitors to our garden about their experiences confirm that.

We could talk about several dozen highlights, but here are just a few of things that have been accomplished this year:

1. Thanks to a $10,000 grant from the Stanley Smith Horticultural Trust and the generous support of the City of Lake Oswego, we added several hundred feet of new high quality gravel paths, along with a series of rock walls around the planting beds in the Orchard Garden. All the paths in the garden are now easy to traverse and provide convenient access to the botanical garden which features over a thousand clematis and hundreds of companion plants around the historic Luscher farmhouse.

2. FRCC has increased the number of taxa held in the collection from 685 in January 2012 to 709 by Late November. That’s 24 new species and cultivars. We are able to make these increases thanks to the gift of seeds or plants, and through donations to enhance our acquisitions budget.

3. We end the year with a whopping 72% of the clematis moved out of containers and into the ground (since we started planting in the summer of 2006). The next push is to develop the new garden space east of the Luscher Farm driveway. This will depend on generous donations to put additional display gardens in an area that is now only pasture. Some of the collection plants that came to us in the original gift from Brewster Rogerson are STILL waiting for their roots to touch the earth.

4. We have formed an Archives Committee. The goal of this working group is to assemble, organize and maintain the historical documents of FRCC. Their big project currently is to review and catalog all of Brewster Rogerson’s papers related to the collection.

As we come to the end of another successful year, we want to thank those who have contributed financially to our success and ask if you will help us once again. Please consider making a tax-deductible donation before the end of the year to keep us moving forward. And come see us in a couple of months when the garden is waking up – there is always something in bloom.

All donations are tax-deductible. Checks should be made payable to “Friends of the Rogerson Clematis Collection” and sent to: Friends of the Rogerson Clematis Collection, PO Box 734, Lake Oswego, Oregon, 97034. Please note on the check that it is a donation.

You can also use this donation button:

Thanks again for your generous support of our effort to assemble and maintain as comprehensive a collection of the genus Clematis as possible, for the advancement of botanical and horticultural research and the education and pleasure of all who visit the collection.

Happy holidays,

Amy Cleary
Donna Soderberg
Larry Beutler
Linda Beutler
Lucy Hardiman
Marcia Apperson
Nancy Gronowski
Nancy Stanton-Chek
Phyllis McCanna
Rick Meigs
Susan Toler

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At the Friends of the Rogerson Clematis Collection, Thanksgiving 2012 finds us with much to be thankful for. We cannot let the holiday pass without first acknowledging our members and patrons, who with the gift of their membership materially demonstrate their support for the continued development of FRCC’s collection, gardens, and facilities. We thank the City of Lake Oswego Parks and Recreation department and staff, for their unfailing helpfulness, always a great team and a great attitude. To all of the donor’s of clematis and companion plants, especially the vendors at the Luscher Farm Open House in September, we thank you too. Thanks especially to the Stanley Smith Horticultural Trust. It was through their generous grant that we were able to complete the installation of the orchard garden. Everyone who sees the work finds the transformation remarkable.

And we continue to cherish the contributions of Bob and Carol Gutmann, who give to FRCC in so many ways. They, along with Brewster Rogerson himself, continue to be our guardian angels and trusted advisers.

We wish everyone a joyful season of Thanksgiving.

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