It’s a party!!!!! Join FRCC as we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the City of Lake Oswego’s incorporation. There is a HUGE celebration planned at Luscher Farm tomorrow, July 17, from 10 am to 10 pm. There will be kid’s events (come see the new greenhouse in the Children’s Garden!), a history center set up in the barn, food and craft kiosks, and live music, including local jazz favorite Linda Hornbuckle. FRCC will have our own canopy set up at the head of our driveway, with clematis for sale. Numbers of some cultivars are limited so remember our retail motto: Shop early and shop often!

Amongst others, we will have for sale:
‘Alionushka’ (Herbaceous Perennial Group)
‘Brunette’ (Atragene Group)
INSPIRATION tm ‘Zoin’ (Herbaceous Perennial Group)
‘Frankie’ (Atragene Group)
‘Mikelite’ (Viticella Group)
‘Piilu’ (Large-flowered Hybrid)
‘Princess Diana’ (Texensis Group)
‘Walenburg’ (Viticella Group)

and many more! (Look for pictures of these at our link to Clematis on the Web)

FRCC will have many volunteers on hand to show off usually closed areas, like our greenhouse, and we will also tour you around our display gardens. Thanks to our many sturdy volunteers, who have helped get the gardens looking swell!

Parking is restricted at the farm, but shuttles will operate throughout the city, including the downtown Wizer’s Grocery, Foothill Park, Lakeridge H.S., and the West End Building. More information about shuttle pick-up locations is linked to www.luscherfarm.org

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Wanted: Some of your time to make the Clematis botanical garden at Luscher Farm look fabuous! Lake Oswego is celebrating its 100th anniversary on Saturday, July 17th, at Luscher Farm and they are expecting literally thousands of people during the course of the day. It’s a great opportunity for us to show off and get the kind of exposure that money can’t buy. But we need to look really good.

So, we’re having a work party on the preceding Saturday, July 10th from 9:00 to 3:00. Please come and lend a hand, and see how well things have progressed, and what’s planned in the next couple of years.

Contact Nancy Gronowski at nancyharveyg AT hotmail DOT com or call her at 503.697.3248 for more information. Bring your favorite hand tools. We will have water and snacks.

See you there!

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10 am to noon, every Friday, April through October

In order to to offer consistent access to otherwise locked areas of the Rogerson Clematis Collection, FRCC has instituted “drop-in” hours, when you can visit inside the greenhouse or have your clematis questions answered by our curator or knowledgeable volunteers, without having to call first. If you would like to arrange a personal visit at some other time, or to have a large (over 6 persons) group receive a guided tour at any time, contact info@rogersonclematiscollection.org.

If you arrive at the farm at other times, and find the greenhouse open and our curator hard at work, please do not expect to be given a tour, to be shown any plants which might be available for sale, or have clematis ID questions answered. Please make an appointment.

As it says in our right sidebar ? the FRCC display gardens are open from dawn to dusk daily. We encourage you to visit at several times of the year to see what is in bloom!

We would also like to remind folks that the Friends of the Rogerson Clematis Collection propagate clematis to preserve and enhance the collection, and FRCC is not a retail or mail-order clematis nursery. Extra clematis are for sale during fund-raising special events, and we advertise those events here on the website, and on our facebook page.

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JULY

July 10, 9:00 – Noon Lake Oswego general public Plant (Clematis) Propagation Workshop at Luscher Farm
Contact Linda Beutler: clematis@ipns.com

July 17th Celebration at Luscher Farm. Garden tours, Plants for sale and volunteers available for Q & A. Details to follow.
Contact Susan Toler: sst0916@hotmail.com

July 25, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM Members of FRCC Plant Propagation Workshop at Luscher Farm
Contact Linda Beutler: clematis@ipns.com

AUGUST

August 20, 5:00 – 8:00 PM Member’s Appreciation Picnic under the Beech Tree at Luscher Farm

SEPTEMBER

September 6-13 International Clematis Society Annual Meeting. There are many opportunities to volunteer. The garden at Luscher Farm needs to be in top form. Your help the spring and summer would be greatly appreciated.
Contact Linda Beutler: clematis@ipns.com

September 17, 18, 19 HPSO Fall Plant Sale Information Booth Only

OCTOBER

Annual Member Meeting

NOVEMBER

Late November seed propagation workshop at Luscher Farm

DECEMBER

Winter Holiday Lunch, Waiting for details. Perhaps a “Farm House” Gathering at Luscher Farm

Ongoing in General

Every 2nd and 4th Saturday of the Month, volunteer at the garden from 9:30 AM to Noonish.
If you intend to come, please contact Susan Toler: sst0916@hotmail.com

Every Friday 9:30 - 1:30 Volunteering at the Greenhouse
Contact Doris Starrett: dostarr@comcast.net

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FRCC Annual Meeting
The FRCC annual meeting has been set for Tuesday evening, October 6,
2009, from 6 to 9 pm. We will meet at our regular location, the SMILE
Station, 8310 SE 13th Avenue, Portland 97202, one block south of Tacoma
St. on the corner of 13th and Tenino. We will begin with a catered
social hour from 6 to 7 pm, the business meeting will be from 7 to 7:30,
and our evening’s speaker will be _Maurice Horn_, of Joy Creek Nursery,
who has created a new talk for us. Maurice will be SELLING PLANTS from
his nursery from 6 to 7 pm, and also after his presentation, if there
are any left ;-}.

Maurice’s illustrated lecture: THE CLEMATIS MEMORY GARDEN
Join Maurice Horn as he looks back at the clematis greats, both amateur
and professional, who have died in the last decade. He revisits their
contributions revealing their passion for clematis whether as scholars,
authors or hybridizers. Maurice explores why people from so many
countries and various walks of life were able to a create legacy that
essentially comprises a second “golden age” of clematis.

Also at the annual meeting, the FRCC board will announce the recipient
of this year’s Sharon Kaito Volunteer of the Year Award. Every year the
FRCC board selects a worthy volunteer, some one not on the board, who
has consistently stepped forward above and beyond what is expected of a
volunteer to support and enhance FRCC’s activities. The award is a plant
of ‘Duchess of Waverly’.

_Please remember that this free event is for members only._ You are
welcome to bring guests who are interested in joining, and you may renew
your membership at this meeting.

Seed Starting Workshop
Learn how to gather clematis seeds and get them started at our annual
Seed Starting Workshop, Saturday, November 7, 2009, from 10 am to noon.
FRCC President Sally Geist is our facilitator for this event, held in
our greenhouse at Luscher Farm (125 Rosemont Rd. West Linn, OR 97068).
All materials are provided, and the cost is $10.00 for regular members
(and free to patrons). The emphasis is on collecting seeds from species.
If you are interested in starting hybrid seed (for instance, any seed
from large-flowered hybrids), you will need to bring your own seed, and
take it with you after it is potted up.

Please register with FRCC curator Linda Beutler at clematis@ipns.com, or
info@rogersonclematiscollection.org, or call 503-869-1427. You can pay
the registration fee at the door.

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