The Penstemons are still flowering . . .

We enjoyed an excellent talk via Zoom on fragrant plants last night – many thanks to Barlaston Village Garden Club for organising and hosting this. Their next talk will be in January and you can find details on their website.

Don’t forget tonight it is the talk via Zoom from Barlaston Garden Club – Wednesday 9th Dec at 7.30pm from the Head Gardener of Wollerton Old Hall (Market Drayton) which featured on Gardeners World twice previously.  Talk is entitled ‘The Fragrant Garden‘. To join the meeting please contact them via their website www.BVGClub.co.uk or email them at BVGClub@outlook.com.

Meanwhile a Rudbeckia is still flowering in a sheltered spot –

Our plant today is the Sedum – or Hylotelephium as the botanists have renamed it. Even the leaves add a splash of brightness as they turn a golden yellow. And once the wind, rain and frost have done their worst the different shades of brown (especially in the sunshine – if only) are still colourful. The red seeds of the Crocosmia are adding to the colour in this photo too.

Don’t forget to sign up for the FREE talk via Zoom from Barlaston Garden Club tomorrow (Wednesday) at 7.30.

Before we post our seventh December photo we have news from Barlaston Garden Club. They are hosting their meetings via Zoom and would like to invite everyone along:-

We are having fortnightly casual meetings and occasionally an expert speaker.   Our next expert talk is on Wednesday 9th Dec at 7.30pm from the Head Gardener of Wollerton Old Hall (Market Drayton) which featured on Gardeners World twice previously.  Talk is entitled ‘The Fragrant Garden‘. If you’ve not used zoom before we have a trial/test run event on Tuesday 8th at 7.30pm.
To join the meeting on Wed or the trial on Tues, please contact us via our website www.BVGClub.co.uk or email us at BVGClub@outlook.com
If you are unable to use zoom, you can also either: 1 – See part of the meeting via our FaceBook page – or 2. You can dial into the meeting from a telephone line.
If you want to see a short highlights video of our fortnightly casual meetings click here https://youtu.be/JDAaBA-roYc. We may also run a Christmas gardening quiz, so would be nice to have other clubs involved.
Please forward this post onto any friends or other local clubs who might be interested in joining the talks for free. If you have any questions at all please do not hesitate to contact us, we’d like everyone to be able to participate.

Over on our Photo Gallery page we now have a slide show of our Autumn garden pictures. Our seventh December photo is of the few Cotoneaster berries the blackbirds haven’t eaten – yet.

Don’t forget to contact Barlaston Garden Club to join in with their FREE meeting on Wednesday.

Achillea

Wonder how long these rosebuds will last in the weather forecast for the next few days!

Our meeting this month should have been about December Flower Arrangements (not to mention the afternoon tea) but events are still conspiring against us. We thought instead we would try, with members’ help, to have at least one picture each day of a something providing a little colour in our December gardens – whether its flowers, leaves, berries or ornaments/pots. So, Garden Club Members – this is your challenge. You have our email address for photos. You rose to the Virtual Flower Show Challenge a couple of months ago. Can you rise to this one too?

As a starter here is a mallow still clinging on in Chris’s garden.

Photos will also be appearing on our Instagram feed (stone_candd_garden_club) too.