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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.

Among the many photos received for the Virtual Show this last week have been quite a few taken at other times of the year so we thought as the final part of the Show we could have a round-up of this (very peculiar) year so far.

We start with January through to April

Then May

June

July

and finally August

We hope you have enjoyed this peek at members’ gardens and flowers over the last week. We have missed being able to meet up every month and our chats about our gardens over a cup of something after our speaker has finished for the evening – and we’ve really missed hearing all those inspirational and informative talks. This looks likely to continue well into next year as well, sadly. In the meantime we will try to keep the blog going with as many photos, hints, tips and links as we can find as it is one way to stay in touch with each other until something approaching ‘normal life’ can resume.

After a flurry of late entries we are able to bring you lots of flowers from our gardens today – all the photos taken in the last ten days or so.

plus a few more

and even more . .

and finally Fiona sent us this photo with a note – “I know this one isn’t exactly flowers in my garden, but I got it into Garden News and members might be interested? I’ve raised over £1000 now for Little Hearts Matter (LHM.org) at the garden gate”.

Congratulations to Fiona – and “well done” to all the members who have managed to get photos here on time.

As a finale to our Show tomorrow’s slides will feature those photos taken at other times of the year – gardens and flowers.

Its not only flowers providing colour and interest at this time of year. We are harvesting fruits and the berries and seed-heads of other plants are attracting a variety of birds as well providing a bit of movement and brightness in the borders.

We’ll be back tomorrow with more flowers from our September gardens.

We move on to ‘Gardens’ today as we show you some of our gardens and borders in photos taken last week.

Tomorrow we have photos of fruits, berries and seedheads providing us with September colour and interest.

Today we thought we’d bring you a few dahlias and chrysanthemums – some of them are grown for fun and some of them were destined for the Show last Saturday.

More from our gardens tomorrow . . .

This is the first installment of this week’s Virtual Flower (and Garden) Show from the Garden Club of the Stone Chrysanthemum and Dahlia Society. As we said in our last post – this is being held due to the cancellation of the Society’s Annual Show

We thought we would start the week with some flowers from our gardens in the last few days. Sit back and enjoy the show . . .

More pictures tomorrow . . .