Our next meeting is on Thursday October 14th at the Christ Church Centre in Stone when Ken Black will give a talk: Clematis – For All Year Round Colour. Our meeting starts at 7.30 with coffee/tea available beforehand. All are welcome, just £1.50 payable at the door.

Ken Black has been growing clematis for more than 30 years. He says he tries to make the whole evening as interactive and enjoyable as possible with a talk about the different varieties of clematis followed by practical demonstrations. He grows many clematis from seeds and cuttings and, if there are spare plants, there will be some for sale.

Before then however there is our bus trip to RHS Bridgewater on September 28th – if you have a place booked you should have an email about it before then, if Helen can get her computer to cooperate! Otherwise its 9.30 from the carpark at the Stone House Hotel.

And even before that, on Monday September 25th is a TSGCN talk via Zoom on Climate Change and its Effect on our Gardens by Lucy Hartley. Full details are on the Tender Shoots website.

Back to Clematis – they are such versatile plants that we can all find space for at least one – whether its a C. montana taking over a holly tree (intentional, or otherwise), or more showy ones scrambling through the border (possibly not intentional either) or brightening up a fence.

I’m sure that following Ken’s talk we will all be scrambling to acquire another clematis or two.