Western Cape Fuchsia Society

Meetings

The Western Cape Fuchsia Society meets at 2pm on the first Saturday of each month between February and November at the St Thomas Church Hall, Campground Road in Rondebosch. Every month there is a practical workshop during which an experienced grower demonstrates a particular aspect of cultivating fuchsias relevant to that time of the year. Afterwards members have some practical experience, for example, in June and July they can bring any of their own plants that need potting-up and they will be guided through this process on these plant/s.

 The Society also invites a guest speaker to some meetings to talk about an interesting aspect of gardening, not necessarily connected to growing fuchsias.

Visitors are always welcome to participate and at the end of the meeting, they have the opportunity to discuss any aspect of fuchsia growing with the members over tea and cake.

Should you wish to join the Society, please contact the secretary (details provided below) for all relevant information.

A membership form may be downloaded here.

WESTERN CAPE FUCHSIA SOCIETY 2026 PROGRAMME 

NOT YET AVAILABLE

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Meeting minutes

Date: 11th April 2026

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Our monthly meeting was held on the 11th April 2026 at St Thomas church hall at 2pm.

There were 19 members present.  We also had one visitor at our meeting, Kyle.

Apologies were received from the following members:

Francois and Annette, Estelle, Dot, Deirdre, Belinda, Greta, Joanne, Nerina, Ninon, Jennie Scarr, and David.

As Belinda was away in Australia this month, Barbara stood in for her.

After welcoming everyone to the meeting, Barbara presented a workshop on the propagation of fuchsias by means of cuttings.   Some of the members brought cuttings along, so there was a wide variety of fuchsias available for members to choose from.  We hope that these will be cared for and that they will be back at the June meeting for us to pot up.

After the tea break Felicity gave us an interesting talk about the fuchsia species that are available in South Africa.

Thank you to everyone who supports out raffle table each month, both with donations as well as by buying tickets. This month the raffle raised R360.

Thank you so much to our Tea Team this month, Lorraine and Myra Kloppers and Kotie Steyn.

The next meeting will be on the 2nd May 2026.