Hello Fellow SDRS Members! Our monthly meeting in April will be on Monday, April 15th and will begin at 6:30 p.m. We are excited to kick off the month of April with our first Little Rose Show! We will have 5 shows this Little Rose Show season....one each in April, May, June, September and October. Kristine and I presented the new and exciting Little Rose Show Powerpoint in March detailing the new show rules and we want to encourage each and every one of you to bring your roses to stage and present for our kick off show. This will help to ready ourselves for the upcoming rose show season. I know that some of you are hesitant to bring your roses but we wanted to reassure you that this is a fun and exciting way to participate in our rose society. Along with the programs that we have been bringing you we also want to emphasize that participating in our Little Rose Show is very fun and a great learning experience without pressure. A copy of the new 2024 Little Rose Show rules can be dowloaded here.

We will have stations set up as in previous years to help everyone of you to take your single rose stems and learn how to prep your roses and stage them in the vases. We will have our own Linda Clark to assist also. Linda is the chairperson for our SDRS rose show coming up in May. Linda will go through each entry and will educate us all on what the judges are expecting in a bloom. She will also describe what the proper ways are to stage and groom each flower. As we mentioned we will also be adding a new category called the Premier Table. For this category our seasoned exhibitors will groom and stage their roses, and enter them so that we can all see an example of what each type of rose should look like to gain the most exhibition points. So we are also asking our seasoned exhibitors to bring their best roses for the night to help us all along in our journey of the exciting and fun of exhibiting roses!

Meeting location: Casa del Prado’s room 101, in Balboa Park.

We will have our first Little Rose Show of the year this month.

There will be NO rose auction at this meeting.
There will be NO CR, photography or arrangement corners this month.

Special Note: At the conclusion of this month’s meeting, we are requesting that a small group of interested members assemble who would like to discuss the possible options for celebrating our society’s 100th anniversary which will be occurring in 2027. We need your thoughts and ideas about how best to carry out this celebration. If you are interested please contact Ruth Tiffany at ruthsgarden @ msn.com.

Directions to Casa del Prado, Room 101: The Casa del Prado building is immediately west of the Natural History Museum. Entrances to the Casa del Prado lead to an inner court. The rooms are accessible from the court. Room 101 is downstairs on the east end of the court.

Our monthly meeting in March will be on Monday, March 18th. This month we will have our potluck which begins at 6:00 p.m. The formal program with our speaker will begin at 7:00 p.m. Just prior to our featured speaker’s presentation SDRS Little Rose Show Coordinators Robert and Kristine Russell will be speaking shortly about the new changes to our Little Rose Show structure beginning in April. We are privileged to have Hudson Elliott as our guest speaker for our March meeting. He will be talking about the new rose varieties available for purchase at our local nurseries. Hudson has been working for the Armstrong Garden Center in Del Mar for the last seventeen years. He has many roses in his garden and has extensive knowledge of their care. Hudson was born and raised in Arcadia, California only a few blocks from the Los Angeles County Arboretum. This wonderful garden had a major influence on him during his childhood. He started selling plants at a plant stand in his backyard at the age of seven! His mother passed on all of her extensive horticultural knowledge to him as he grew up. He came to San Diego in 1986 to study mechanical engineering at University of California, San Diego, but decided the outdoors was more fun! He started a landscape construction company in 1990 and he rediscovered his plant passion! He has been a licensed landscape contractor since 1992. He retired from the construction part of that career eighteen years ago to focus on consulting and the nursery business. He is also a California certified nurseryman and UC certified integrated pest management specialist. He does extensive consulting for backyard orchards. We hope you all can come to hear Hudson. It promises to be a lively presentation!"

Meeting location: Casa del Prado’s room 101, in Balboa Park. There will be a rose auction at this meeting. There will be NO Little Rose Show this month. The shows will resume in April 2024. Due to the potluck there will be NO CR, photography or arrangement corners.

Directions to Casa del Prado, Room 101: The Casa del Prado building is immediately west of the Natural History Museum. Entrances to the Casa del Prado lead to an inner court. The rooms are accessible from the court. Room 101 is downstairs on the east end of the court.

We will be having a potluck at next month’s meeting just prior to the monthly meeting. The potlucks are such a joy to anticipate as it brings together all of us prior to one of our monthly meetings, sitting at tables together, enjoying wonderful homemade food, laughing, talking and sharing stories about families and roses. We moved our traditional date up a bit to March since there are so many other events for our society during this May. So here is the system we use to bring all types of foods. Our potluck dinner begins at 6:00 p.m. before our meeting on March 20th. Please bring your best creation according to the leading letter of your last name below. Homemade dishes are always the best! Following the potluck we will have our program and speaker with the program beginning at 7:00 p.m.

A — I Salad or Side Dish

J — P Dessert

Q — Z Main Dish

Please bring a dish large enough to feed 8 persons. Also please bring serving utensils and your own plates, napkins and utensils.

Our monthly meeting in February will occur on the fourth Monday of the month which is February 26th. Traditionally we have had the monthly meetings for January and February on the fourth Monday to accommodate the holidays. The evening will begin with the Silent Rose Auction and Consulting Rosarian’s Corner at 6:30 p.m. The formal program with our speaker will begin at 7:00 p.m. We are very honored, once again, to have a premier hybridizer, Ping Lim, serve as our speaker at this month’s meeting. He will be preparing an original presentation for our society, “Rosa Exploration: When East Meets West” and including information about his own hybridizing efforts. Ping is the Director of Ornamental Plant Research for Altman Plants in San Diego, CA. After receiving a degree in horticulture from National Taiwan University, Ping began his rose breeding career at DeVor Nurseries, and later joined Bailey Nurseries to direct rose breeding research where he developed the line of Easy Elegance roses. Ping has served on international rose review committees (AARS & AGRS) for decades and has explored the globe to learn and share his love of roses! Roses By Ping was established in 2009 at McMinnville Oregon. In 2012 Ping was hired by Altman Plants to direct their ornamental plant research. This has enabled him to amplify his mission in roses and other ornamental plants, including hibiscus and agapanthus. All of these innovations have earned him many prestigious awards as follows: 3 AARS (All-America Rose Selection) winners. 13 ARTS (American Rose Trial for Sustainability) awards, 11 awards at Portland BEST: 3 Biltmore International Trials, 3 ARC (American Rose Center) awards, 1 award from the Rose Hills International Rose Trials, 1 AGRS (American Garden Rose Selection) award, 1 Belfast Gold Medal, 6 Japan Best Flower Awards and 1 Lyon Best Rose. 85 varieties have been commercialized, including 77 roses, 7 hibiscus, and 1 agapanthus. Total of 43 patents were granted from USA, Europe, China, Japan, and Taiwan. Ping contributes articles on roses in Chinese and English to journals and magazines, and has been a speaker for horticultural associations and rose societies worldwide. Ping loves photography and has received two awards from ASHS (American Society for Horticultural Science). Ping has been knighted by the Portland Royal Rosarians and received an Outstanding Alumni Award from the National Taiwan University. May 16, 2022, Ping was honored by the American Rose Society as one of the first 21st century inductees to its Rose Breeders Hall of Fame. Ping has been involved in breeding the following collections. Easy Elegance Roses, True Bloom Roses Sunscape Hibiscus, and Atomic Bloom Agapanthus.

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Good News! Our Raffle ticket sales have been restored! In addition to receiving free tickets for attending, bringing snacks, roses to show and raffle prizes, you may once again purchase tickets at $1 per ticket or 7 tickets for $5. Please bring items for the raffle table if you can. They should be rose-related. Rose plants are accepted.

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Prior to this month’s meeting, there will be another silent auction with five roses. They are in 1- to 5- gallon containers. Come early before the meeting starts and place your bids for these wonderful roses. There will be a sheet of paper in front of each rose with details of the rose along with a photo of the bloom. If you want to bid on a rose, just write your name and your bid amount on the sheet of paper. Each bid must increase by at least one dollar from the last bid. If you are unable to attend the meeting, you can give your name and your highest bid to a fellow member who would be attending and that person can bid for you. This is a fun and competitive event! Come and join in and take home a special rose!

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Meeting location: Casa del Prado’s room 101, in Balboa Park. There will be NO Little Rose Show this month. The shows will resume in April, 2024 Directions to Casa del Prado, Room 101: The Casa del Prado building is immediately west of the Natural History Museum. Entrances to the Casa del Prado lead to an inner court. The rooms are accessible from the court. Room 101 is downstairs on the east end of the court.

Rose Diseases with Pat Nolan

By Robert Russell, VP Programs

Our monthly meeting in January will occur on the fourth Monday of the month which is January 22nd. Traditionally we have had the monthly meetings for January and February on the fourth Monday to accommodate the holidays. The evening will begin with the Consulting Rosarian’s Corner at 6:30 p.m. The formal program with our speaker will begin at 7:00 p.m.

We are please to have Pat Nolan as our speaker this month. Her topic is ‘An Overview of Rose Diseases’ and is anticipated to be very informative for our audience. Pat Nolan has a B.S. in Plant Health Technology from the University of Minnesota and an M.S. in Plant Pathology from UC Davis. She worked in the nursery and biotech industries and eventually landed in the County of San Diego's Department of Agriculture, Weights and Measures where she was the plant pathologist for 27 years. Now retired she enjoys doing volunteer work with various groups such as the Master Gardeners and continues to work on her mushroom identification skills.

Here is an outline of her program:

 Rose Diseases Overview

 Bacterial blight

 Black spot

 Botrytis blight

 Stem cankers and dieback & Canker diseases

 Botryosphaeria canker

 Nectria canker

 Root rots

 Crown gall

 Leaf spot disease

 Mycosphaerelia spp.

 Sphaceloma spp.

 Powdery mildew

 Rusts

 Anthracnose

 Viruses

 Rose mosaic virus

We hope you all can come and enjoy this informative program! You are welcome to bring snacks and treats

which are always appreciated.

Meeting location: Casa del Prado’s room 101, in Balboa Park.

There will be NO Little Rose Show this month. The shows will resume in April, 2024.

Directions to Casa del Prado, Room 101: The Casa del Prado building is immediately west of the Natural History Museum. Entrances to the Casa del Prado lead to an inner court. The rooms are accessible from the court. Room 101 is downstairs on the east end of the court.

Good News! Our Raffle has been restored! Tickets may once again be purchased at $1 per ticket or 7 tickets for $5. Feel free to bring items for the raffle table. They should be rose-related. Rose plants are accepted.

Consulting Rosarian Beth Van Boxtel will be giving a free talk at Walter Andersen Nursery on January 20, 2024 at 9am. There is limited seating, so come a few minutes early to grab a seat! The talk may be outdoors if the weather permits, so dress warm.

Beth will be talking about garden tools, the right rose for the right place, potted roses and in-ground rose care, pruning tips, watering tips, fertilizer tips, and how to get an early start on disease and insect maintenance in your rose garden.

Walter Andersen Nursery is located at:
3642 Enterprise St, San Diego, CA 92110

MAKE PLANS NOW to participate in our Annual Rose Pruning Event on Saturday, January 13th, 2024 from 9:00am to 11:00am in the Inez Parker Grant Balboa Park Rose Garden. Whether you are a brand new or seasoned rosarian, this is a great opportunity to either learn beginning rose pruning techniques or by all means take a refresher course! Many of our Consulting Rosarians and Rose Corps experts will be on site to work with you in small groups, demonstrating the basics of rose pruning, whether it be a Hybrid Tea, Floribunda, or another variety. Be sure to bring your own clippers and gloves, as you will also have a chance to prune a rose bush (or two, or three), and have it critiqued. This is such a great way to build confidence in your skills as we head into the month of January and the time of year in San Diego that is best for preparing your roses for dormancy and a much needed respite. Please plan to meet by the fountain on the north side of the garden at 9:00am. The UCCE Master Gardeners Tool Care Committee will be on site to sharpen one pruner per person (as time permits) for free.
Bring one pair of pruners or loppers and have them sharpened for free by the UCCE Master Gardeners of San Diego County’s Tool Care Committee. The first 30 people to drop off their pruners or loppers in good working condition at the booth will have them cleaned, sharpened and ready for pick up after the demonstration. 

• Pruners or loppers must have no longer than an 2 inch blade and be in good working condition.
  No serrated blades (pruning saws) or long blades (hedge shears).

• 'Good working condition' means that the tool is operational (opens and closes, can cut a twig), has minimal rust and grime, and no chips or divots on the blade.

In the past we’ve had several wonderful SDRS volunteers assist in organizing folks into groups. Please let Deborah, Natalie, or Steve Berry know if you can be on hand to help with that. There’ll be doughnuts for all volunteers, so don’t start your post-holiday diet until after that day!

Reminder to CR’s and Demonstrators: Please plan to arrive that morning by 8:30am with your bucket of tools including:

• Pruning shears (consider including extra pairs for attendees)

• Lopper

• Pruning saw

• Sharpening tool

• Gauntlet gloves

  NOTE TO EVERYONE: Please make sure all your items are labeled as it goes without saying, it’s very easy to misplace things as you are working in the garden. Also, there is usually plentiful free parking in the lot just south of the Science Center, on the west side of Park Boulevard, directly across the rose garden.

This is one of the favorite gatherings of our SDRS family. We hope you all can come and enjoy the wonderful feast, the social time with rose-loving friends and Linda Clark’s beautiful garden.

December 10th from 12pm until 4pm

Held at the home of

Linda Clark
10656 Fuerte Drive
La Mesa, CA 91941
Cost is only $19 per person
Make your reservation before December 1st.
New this year! Use this link to electronically sign up for the Holiday Party:

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30E0A49A8AA2AA64-44783261-holiday

This month’s meeting will be on Monday, November 20th and our program will begin at 6:30 p.m. with the Consulting Rosarians’ Corner, a special ’fertilizer’ edition, hosted by Ruth Tiffany. At 7:00 p.m., we are privileged to have renown speakers Ray & Pauline Martin speaking on the topic “The Influence and Legacy of the UK’s Amateur Rose Breeders.”

Ray is retired from Health Services and Pauline from Social Services. They have been growing and showing roses for 49 years. Ray is the General Secretary of The Rose Society UK and Pauline is Shows Chair.

They grow about 800 roses on their allotments (rented land) and another 100 or so at home and in their greenhouses (probably more but too afraid to count!) They have won a few championships and prizes along the way at national shows but they now believe that, more important than winning, is sharing roses with everyone.

They are both UK and ARS judges and ARS CRs. Ray also edits the Rose Society Newsletter, The Rose Times. Any spare time Ray has (very little) is spent on golf courses and also growing a few dahlias.

As with their past presentations to SDRS, Pauline will again construct a beautiful typical ‘English Style’ basket of roses. But she needs for SDRS members attending the meeting to bring along a few buckets of roses for her to ‘play’ with to create this arrangement.

We hope you can all come to this meeting and hear expert advice from these experienced rosarians who have traveled so far.

There will also be a Silent Rose Auction featuring some beautiful and desirable roses.

In the hallway outside of room 101, we are happy to have SDRS member Ron Ontell offering his tool sharpening service for us at this month’s meeting. Prices range from $3 to $8 for most garden tools.

Meeting location: Casa del Prado’s room 101, in Balboa Park.

There will be NO Little Rose Show this month. The shows will resume in April, 2024.

Directions to Casa del Prado, Room 101: The Casa del Prado building is immediately west of the Natural History Museum. Entrances to the Casa del Prado lead to an inner court. The rooms are accessible from the court. Room 101 is downstairs on the east end of the court.

This month’s meeting will be on Monday, October 16th and we

are privileged to have Kathy Monge coming from the Orange County Rose Society to speak at our meeting. Her program will begin at 7:00p.m. right after our 6:00pm potluck. Kathy is in high demand as an animated speaker at rose societies on various topics. She is a Master Rosarian, Horticulture and Arrangement Judge for the American Rose Society (ARS) as well as an exhibitor in horticulture, arrangement and photography competitions. She is two-time past president of the Orange County Rose Society and is the current Roses in Review Coordinator for the Pacific Southwest District. Along with an occasional speaking engagement, she writes a monthly column for the Orange County Rose Society’s Rose Gazette and was a contributing author for the 2021 ARS Rose Annual. She has been honored with the 2018 Outstanding Consulting Rosarian and the 2022 Outstanding Horticulture Judge for the Pacific Southwest District of the American Rose Society as well as the 2007 Bronze Medal recipient for the Orange County Rose Society. She grows approximately 150 rose bushes in Santa Ana, California with an emphasis on miniature and microminiature roses. Her latest adventure in roses is hybridizing and she is a board member for the Rose Hybridizers Association. We hope you can all come to this meeting and hear expert advice from our speaker.

Meeting location: Casa del Prado’s room 101, in Balboa Park.

There have been some adjustments to the meeting times.

We will NOT have a Consulting Rosarian’s Corner or

Arranger’s/Photography Corner this month due to the potluck.

It’s Potluck Time Again!

Fall is always a fun time to have a potluck, where everyone brings

their favorite homemade dish to share. We are happy to announce that we will have a potluck this month just prior to the monthly meeting. So here is the rotating system we use to ensure that all types of foods are brought. Our potluck dinner begins at 6:00 p.m. before our meeting on October 16th. Please bring your best creation according to the leading letter of your last name as indicated below. Homemade dishes are always the best! Following the potluck we will have our program and speaker beginning at 7:00 p.m.

A — G Dessert

H — Q Main Dish

R — Z Salad or Side Dish

This month’s meeting will include the last Little Rose Show of the year starting at 6:30 p.m.

Come and bring your best roses for a fun contest that is not intimidating.

Directions to Casa del Prado, Room 101: The Casa del Prado building is immediately west of the Natural History

Museum. Entrances to the Casa del Prado lead to an inner court. The rooms are accessible from the court. Room 101 is

downstairs on the east end of the court.

This month’s meeting will be on Monday, September 18 and we are privileged to have Kathy Monge coming from the Orange County Rose Society to speak at our meeting. Kathy is in high demand as an animated speaker at rose societies on various topics. She is a Master Rosarian, Horticulture and Arrangement Judge for the American Rose Society (ARS) as well as an exhibitor in horticulture, arrangement and photography competitions. She is two-time past president of the Orange County Rose Society and is the current Roses in Review Coordinator for the Pacific Southwest District. Along with an occasional speaking engagement, she writes a monthly column for the Orange County Rose Society’s Rose Gazette and was a contributing author for the 2021 ARS Rose Annual. She has been honored with the 2018 Outstanding Consulting Rosarian and the 2022 Outstanding Horticulture Judge for the Pacific Southwest District of the American Rose Society as well as the 2007 Bronze Medal recipient for the Orange County Rose Society. She grows approximately 150 rose bushes in Santa Ana, California with an emphasis on miniature and micro-miniature roses. Her latest adventure in roses is hybridizing and she is a board member for the Rose Hybridizers Association. We hope you can all come to this meeting and hear expert advice from our speaker.

There have been some adjustments to the meeting times. The Consulting Rosarian’s Corner and the new Arranger’s Corner will begin at 6:30 p.m. and the meeting presentation will begin at 7:00 p.m.

Meeting location: Casa del Prado’s room 101, in Balboa Park.

The meeting will include a Little Rose Show this month starting at 6:30 p.m. Come and bring your best roses for a fun contest that is not intimidating. There will also be a rose auction starting at 6:30 p.m. at this meeting.

Directions to Casa del Prado, Room 101: The Casa del Prado building is immediately west of the Natural History Museum. Entrances to the Casa del Prado lead to an inner court. The rooms are accessible from the court. Room 101 is downstairs on the east end of the court.

REMEMBER OUR NEW EARLIER START TIME! We’ll be starting with FOUR simultaneous activities at 6:30: Consulting Rosarian’s Corner, the PREMIERE of Arranger’s Corner, our Little Rose Show and our Rose Auction.
Our Speaker Suzanne Horn’s Presentation will start at 7:00.

Suzanne Horn Presents “The Rapture of Miniature & Miniflora Roses”

By Robert Russell, SDRS VP Programs

This month’s meeting will be on Monday, July 17. There have been some adjustments to the meeting times. The Consulting Rosarian’s Corner and the new Arranger’s Corner will begin at 6:30 p.m. and the meeting presentation will begin at 7:00 p.m.

We are privileged to have Suzanne Horn as our speaker this month. Suzanne Horn is an exhibitor, writer and educator from Glendale, California, and she has been growing roses since February 14, 2000. A successful exhibitor, Suzanne has been winning District and National trophies since her first two years of showing roses. She became a Consulting Rosarian in 2003 and an accredited ARS Horticultural Judge in 2005. She has received Bronze Honor Medals from both Pacific Rose Society and Los Angeles Rose Society. In 2014, she became a Master Rosarian and was named “Outstanding Consulting Rosarian” for the Pacific Southwest District. In 2022 she was awarded the very rare Pacific Rose Society Presidential Silver Medal for outstanding service, being only one of four individuals to receive this medal in the 86- year history of the society. In addition, she recently was awarded the 2023 Silver Hon- or Medal from the Pacific Southwest District.

Suzanne has taught at numerous seminars, in the local district and nationally.
She has also served as a contributing editor to the American Rose Society’s national magazine for many years, and has contributed many articles locally and nationally. In 2022 after the untimely passing of Bob Martin, Suzanne took on the monumental task of National Editor of the Horizon Roses publication.

Suzanne loves to teach and talk about roses and avidly shares her love of roses with everyone. In particular, Suzanne has won numerous awards at shows for her exhibition of miniature and miniflora roses. So it is appropriate that her topic should be about these categories of roses. We welcome Suzanne and gratefully thank her for making the trip from Glendale to speak at our meeting.

Meeting location: Casa del Prado’s room 101, in Balboa Park.

The meeting will include a Little Rose Show this month.

Come and bring your best roses for a fun contest that is not intimidating. Show schedule is on the next page.

There will also be a rose auction at this meeting. Prior to this month’s meeting, there will be another silent auction with five roses on own root that I started from cuttings. They are in 1 or 2-gallon containers. Come early before the meeting starts and place your bids for these wonderful roses. There will be a sheet of paper in front of each rose with details of the rose along with a photo of the bloom. If you want to bid on a rose, just write the last four digits of your phone number (to preserve the secrecy of this silent auction!) and your bid amount on the sheet of paper. Each bid must increase by at least one dollar from the last bid. If you are unable to attend the meeting, you can give your name, the last four digits of your phone number and your highest bid to a fellow member who would be attending and that person can bid for you. This is a fun and competitive event! Come and join in and take home a special rose! We will be auctioning: Passionate Kisses, Diamond Eyes, Stranger, Strawberry Kisses, and Dr. John Dickman.

Directions to Casa del Prado, Room 101: The Casa del Prado building is immediately west of the Natural History Museum. Entrances to the Casa del Prado lead to an inner court. The rooms are accessible from the court. Room 101 is downstairs on the east end of the court.

Get ready for another memorable SDRS Pilgrimage! It’s been six years since we’ve been to the Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Garden in San Marino, so it’s high time for another fabulous day enjoying the wonderful rose garden, the other beautiful gardens, the library and the art museum.

Here’s the plan for this SDRS tradition, thoughtfully coordinated, as always, by Sue Streeper. It will be a day of fun, friends and roses to cherish!

Our Sun Diego charter bus loads from 7:30 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. in southern section of the parking lot at Observation Point in Balboa Park, which is next to the old Balboa Naval Medical Center and the San Diego Veteran’s Memorial Building. (The nearest intersection for your navigation is President’s Way and Park Blvd. Go south into the parking lot from there). We will leave promptly at 8:00 a.m.

We should arrive at the Huntington about 10:30, and we can spend some time in the three-acre rose garden.

We also anticipate getting to spend a little time visiting with Tom Carruth, the Curator of the Huntington’s Rose Collection, whose name you will also recognize as the hybridizer of many of your favorite roses. He was in charge of hybridizing at Weeks Roses from 1988 to 2012. Rose varieties among the over 150 we owe to his talents include ‘Julia Child,’ ‘Marilyn Monroe,’ ‘Memorial Day,’ and ‘Rock and Roll.’ Information about Tom Carruth on HelpMeFind.com includes a citation from a 1998 Dick Streeper article called “Queen Maker” that was published in “Rose Ramblings” and “American Rose” Magazine; the article referenced Mr. Carruth’s first All-America Rose Selections winner in 1997, ‘Scentimental.’ Other roses that we all know among his 11 total AARS winners include those listed above, ‘Fourth of July’ and ‘Betty Boop.’

We’ll be able to explore all that the Huntington has to offer until about 3:00 p.m., when we’ll be homeward bound, with return to Balboa park about 6:00 p.m.

The cost of this trip will be $99 per person, which covers the bus ride, your Huntington admission and lunch. Adding to the value of this amazing time, the bus ride will feature both snacks and a restroom!

Reserve your place in the fun now! Email us to RSVP as soon as possible: sandiegorosesociety@gmail.com

More info coming soon!

Learn from the Pros!

This month we will have four stations set up for you and experienced exhibitors will be on hand to help you stage and groom your roses for exhibiting at the show. Linda Clark has graciously volunteered again this year to judge our first show and to explain exactly what the judges are looking for in exhibiting your roses. This first show will get us prepared for the Coronado Flower Show on April 15-16 for which Rita Perwich will be the chairperson for the rose section of their flower show, and of course our annual San Diego Rose Society Rose Show on April 22-23 in El Cajon.

Little Rose Show

Bring in your best blooms from your garden at 7pm. Make sure the stems are 12" long (or shorter if the rose is small). From 7:00 p.m. until 7:45 p.m.

Pest Control

We will have a presentation by Bill and Elaine Ornelas on what to look for in our gardens at this time of year as far as pest control.

We will then turn our attention back to Linda and she will get through all of the Little Rose Show entries and explain how each rose is judged and what the judges are looking for. I am excited to see all of the beautiful roses this month. Please, and most importantly, let’s all have fun! Remember showing roses is fun, and also competitive. And we all have a little competitive side in us! We are all here to help you present your roses in their most beautiful state.

The meeting will start a little early at 7:00 p.m. to accommodate the Little Rose Show in Casa del Prado’s Room 101, in Balboa Park.

There will be a rose auction at this meeting. Names of the roses will be announced prior to the meeting. There will be no Consulting Rosarian Corner at this meeting.

Directions to Casa del Prado, Room 101: The Casa del Prado building is immediately west of the Natural History Museum. Entrances to the Casa del Prado lead to an inner court. The rooms are accessible from the court. Room 101 is downstairs on the east end of the court.

California Coastal Rose Society (CCRS) presents the 23rd Annual Spring Auction of Rare and Unusual Roses on Sunday, April 16, 2023, at the El Corazon Oceanside Senior Center, 3302 Senior Center Drive, Oceanside, CA 92054.

In the tradition of offering the rarest of rare roses, the featured rose is 'Lemon Chiffon', a yellow, intensely fragrant Hybrid Tea bred by Herbert Swim in 1954. RULED EXTINCT by the American Rose Society almost forty years ago, it is exclusively available only in the Live Auction.

To view the other rare and unusual roses in both the Silent and Live Auctions, click here. Each rose is linked to HelpMeFind, where one can find pictures and detailed information about the rose.

SUNDAY April 16th

Doors open at 10:00 AM and close at 3:00 PM

SILENT ROSE AUCTION: Roses for the Silent Auction will be on display at 10:00 AM until the Auction closes at noon. Participants will each be given a bidder number and a list of the varieties in both the Silent and Live Auctions. There will be CCRS Rosarians available to answer any questions.

LIVE AUCTION: Begins promptly at 1:30 PM. The auction ends at 3:00 PM. The roses will be on display from 10:00 AM until noon. John Bagnasco will present the rose offerings with auctioneer.

ONLINE AUCTION: Online bidding for the Silent and Live Auctions begins Saturday, April 1 and ends Friday, April 14 at noon.

Our program, scheduled for Monday, March 20th will feature a panel of several of our own Consulting Rosarians who will be providing information on the best spring grooming practices for your rose gardens. They will offer information on fertilizing, watering, spraying and general garden care. Whether you grow roses to exhibit or just need valuable information about best practices in your gardens, this presentation will prove valuable to you. Our panel will include Master Rosarian, Linda Clark who will be presenting a short PowerPoint program illustrating good practices in our gardens.

Robert Russell will do a short presentation on how he prepares flowers to transport them to a rose show. This will include pruning the rose stems in preparation for travel by sealing the bottom of the cut stem with a nail polish, enclosing the bloom in a Styrofoam cup and wrapping the entire stem with sticky wax paper. This process essentially forces the bloom into a short time period of dormancy for travel. Linda will be providing a presentation of how she prepares her roses for a show and also prepares her roses for traveling distances to a national show. Bill and Elaine Ornelas, and Sue Streeper will also do a short demonstration on how they bring their roses to a show. Barbara Lester will do a short demonstration on how she prepares her photographs and mats them for entries into rose shows (more info here). All of this information will prove valuable to those of you who will be exhibiting your roses in our upcoming Pacific Southwest District/SDRS Rose Show occurring on April 22-23, 2023 or at the ARS Convention in Shreveport, LA, May 5-7, 2023.

We hope that that this information will be helpful to all of our members and rose growers. It will hopefully hone our gardening techniques which will help to keep our bushes trimmed and groomed, and producing beautiful blooms. Whether we grow roses for show exhibition or just want to produce spectacular blooms in our rose gardens, we know this program will be valuable to you.

The presentations will start at 7:30 p.m. in Casa del Prado’s room 101, in Balboa Park but plan to come at 6:30 p.m. for the potluck.

There will be a rose auction at this meeting.

Potluck at this Meeting!

We are happy to announce that we will have a potluck this month just prior to the monthly meeting. We moved our traditional date up a bit since there are so many other events for our society during May. So here is the system we use to ensure that all types of foods are brought. Our potluck dinner begins at 6:30 p.m. before our meeting on March 20th. Please bring your best creation according to the leading letter of your last name below. Homemade dishes are always the best! Following the potluck we will have our program and speaker with the program beginning at 7:30 p.m.

A — J: Main Dish
K — S: Salad or Side
T — Z: Dessert

Please bring a dish large enough to serve 8 persons. Also bring serving utensils and your own plates, napkins and utensils.

We are privileged to have Rita Perwich, Consulting Rosarian and Master Gardener, present our February program on February 27, 2023 at 7:30 p.m. detailing her experiences when touring the rose gardens of England. She described her trip this way: ‘The British are known for their beautiful gardens. Last June, I went to England and participated in the rose tour organized by Paul Zimmerman. We visited 11 gardens including Sissinghurst, Mottisfont, Kiftsgate, Hidcote, Michael Marriott’s garden, David Austin nursery and David Austin’s own private garden. I came home with over 1,700 photographs! I felt compelled to put together a presentation of the highlights of each of these glorious gardens to share with you the pure joy of roses at their peak of perfection. Sit back and enjoy photographs of spectacular roses and incredible gardens. You will also learn about the history of each of the gardens and the people who have created them. Since the British are also known for their scrumptious tea and scones, I was determined to uncover which garden’s tea room has the best scones. You will discover the result of my dedicated efforts.’

Rita Perwich has been a Master Gardener since 2001 and a Consulting Rosarian for the San Diego Rose Society (SDRS) since 2016. She writes monthly rose care articles for the SDRS newsletter, Rose Ramblings, and the San Diego Union Tribune in a column series entitled “The Sustainable Rose Garden”. She has been the editor of the monthly e-newsletter, Roses & You, for the American Rose Society (ARS) and was presented with the award for Outstanding Consulting Rosarian for the Pacific Southwest District in 2022. Her presentations and writing stress the importance of implementing the principles of Integrated Pest Management and protecting the beneficials in the garden. Rita lives in Coronado, California. She has been growing roses for over 20 years and has taught the annual pruning workshop at the Coronado Public Library and chaired the rose section of the Coronado Flower Show for many years. Rita has a Certified Earth Friendly Garden, and she does not use any pesticides or fungicides. Her garden includes over 100 roses and a diverse palette of many other plants. For Rita, the pleasures of growing roses are to be outside in nature, to share roses and her passion for roses with others, and to meet and teach the really wonderful group of people who grow or want to grow roses.

The meeting will start at 7:30 p.m. in Casa del Prado’s room 101 in Balboa Park. There will be a rose auction at this meeting. Feel free to bring some yummy goodies to share before the meeting. Homemade items are always very popular!

Pre-meeting Rose Care Program with Q&A From 7:00—7:30 p.m. one of our expert Consulting Rosarians, will be presenting a short program in the Consulting Rosarian Corner about successfully growing roses. This program will be followed by a question and answer period to offer attendees a chance to have individual questions explored and solutions offered.

Join us for our first monthly meeting of 2023!
We all have them! Favorite roses. But why are they our favorites? Are they fragrant, low maintenance, disease-resistant, heat tolerant? Or are they just beautiful? At this month’s meeting we will have a special panel of rose experts presenting information about their favorite roses, why they like them and where to obtain them. Here are the rosarians who have contributed to this presentation: Jim Price, Deborah Magnuson, Bill and Elaine Ornelas, Beth Van Boxtel, Steve Berry, Zella Burk, Christine Allan, Ken Huff, Bob Kolb, Rita Perwich, Sue Streeper and Virginia West and most of them will be part of the presentation panel at this meeting.

These rosarians have been growing roses for a very long time, sometimes decades and we are fortunate to have them as a resource in our society. There will be a prepared PowerPoint presentation with the speakers detailing each rose. The panel will then answer any questions you may have on your wish list for roses. Come and enjoy this lively discussion!

The meeting will start at 7:30 p.m. in Casa del Prado’s room 101 in Balboa Park. Pre-meeting Rose Care Program with Q&A From 7:00—7:30 p.m. one of our expert Consulting Rosarians, will be presenting a short program in the Consulting Rosarian Corner about successfully growing roses. This program will be followed by a question and answer period to offer attendees a chance to have individual questions explored and solutions offered.

Comprehensive Rose Care Seminar in January

Everything You Need to Know to Grow Beautiful Roses!

January 21, 2023 9:30 a.m.—3:30 p.m.

The San Diego Rose Society will host a day of instruction on rose growing in room 101, Casa del Prado on January 21st. Topics to be addressed are pests and disease, soil and fertilizer, pruning tools and techniques, and rose care throughout the year. The cost is $36.00 which will include lunch and refreshments.

Please submit your payment by no later than Friday, January 13, 2023. Pay by:

Sending a check to:
San Diego Rose Society
P.O. Box 86124
San Diego, CA 92138-6124

Or via PayPal by clicking here

This promises to be a wonderful seminar, full of valuable information to rose growers. Here is the agenda for the semi- nar.

• 9:30 am to 10:00 am - Check-in and refreshments

• 10:00 am - Welcome

• 10:15 am to 11:15 am - Master Rosarian Tom Cooney (‘Pests, Disease, and Chemical Safety’)

• 11:15 am to 12:00 noon - Master Rosarian Ruth Tiffany (‘Soil and Fertilizer’)

• 12:00 noon to 1:00 pm - Box lunch and break

• 1:00 pm to 1:45 pm - Master Rosarian Frank Brines (‘Month-by-Month Rose Care’)

• 1:45 pm to 2:30 pm - Consulting Rosarian Deborah Magnuson (‘Pruning Tools & Care, Pruning Demonstration’)

• 2:30 pm to 3:30 pm - Walk through the Rose Garden (for examples of newly pruned roses of all kinds)

  There will be a drawing at 2:30 p.m. for two Walter Andersen $35 gift certificates toward the purchase of a new rose.

  This is a very popular event and is open to the public so we encourage all of you who are interested to submit your pay- ment as soon as possible.

Come and Learn How to Prune Your Roses for a Great Blooming Season!

January 14, 2023 9:00 a.m.—11:00 a.m.

Please join us in the Inez Parker Grant Balboa Park Rose Garden (aka: Balboa Park Rose Garden) for our annual Public Rose Pruning Demonstration. The normal starting and meeting place is by the fountain on the northern side of the garden.

In January, we all should be planning to perform the major pruning of our roses preparing them for the next blooming cycle. We hope everyone can attend this special event with our Consulting Rosarians showing the correct techniques of pruning. Several rose types will be used for demonstration, including hybrid teas, floribundas, and climbers. We will also include a comprehensive article in January’s Rose Ramblings covering all the aspects of good pruning techniques for those of you who were unable to attend the pruning demonstration.

This is a public event and is always well attended. So please come and enjoy this informative event!

Annual Holiday and Awards Luncheon

This is one of the favorite gatherings of our SDRS family. We hope you all can come and enjoy the wonderful feast, the social time with rose-loving friends and Linda Clark’s beautiful garden.

December 11th from Noon until 4 p.m.

Held at the home of:

Linda Clark
10656 Fuerte Drive
La Mesa, CA 91941 619-301-1156
Cost is only $20 per person
Make your reservation before December 2, 2022.
Send us a message on our contact page, if you’d like to RSVP. Click here for our contact page.
You can pay via check or PayPal.

Topic: Tips for Improving Your Garden!

Do you dream of having a healthy and happy rose garden to enjoy with your family and friends? This month's meeting will help you with just that. Learn basic and advanced rose garden principles, take note of some of the best roses to plant this winter, and learn how to improve your garden with simple tips and strategies - enabling you to create or maintain the rose garden of your dreams! Beth will answer several frequently asked questions during the meeting. Come ready to learn the ways of implementing and maintaining a beautiful rose garden!

Beth Van Boxtel is an Encinitas native and a Consulting Rosarian. She teaches and inspires home gardeners to grow the best roses in their yards. She currently has 150 roses. She volunteers with the San Diego Rose Society as a board member, webmaster, social media manager, and films the garden tours posted on the SDRS YouTube channel. She responds to incoming questions to the San Diego Rose Society via email. In 2020, she won the Rising Star Award from the American Rose Society. She is also a rose exhibitor at San Diego rose shows and at the San Diego County Fair, and won 95 ribbons in 2022.

The meeting will start at 7:30 p.m. in Casa del Prado’s room 101 in Balboa Park.

Pre-meeting Rose Care Program with Q&A

From 7:00—7:30 p.m. An experienced Consulting Rosarian will be presenting a short program in the Consulting Rosarian Corner about successfully growing roses. That program will be followed by a question and answer period to offer attendees a chance to have individual questions explored and solutions offered.

There will be a NO Little Rose Show at this Month’s Meeting! Save your roses for a wonderful Thanksgiving Day bouquet!

Propagating Roses from Cuttings and Using Grafting Techniques. More info coming soon!

If you have reserved your place on this year’s pilgrimage to rose sites in Southern California, please pay now.*
If you have not reserved yet, but would like to join us, there are just a few seats left.**

* Payments, of either $75 or $95 per person, can be made:

via PayPal:

Click here to send $95 per person.

Click here to send $75 per person.

or

by check mailed to: SDRS, PO Box 86124, San Diego, CA 92138-6124

Note: This event is priced at breakeven every year, with just the direct costs passed onto the participants. Our 2022 trip was originally advertised at $75. However, due to recent inflation and particularly the rise in gas prices, all of the costs to SDRS have increased since arrangements were made early in 2022. SDRS’s cost is now $95 per person. We will honor the $75 price originally offered, but if you are able to pay the $95 cost, it would be much appreciated.

** If you haven’t reserved yet, but would like to attend, email sandiegorosesociety@gmail.com to ask for one of the remaining seats. You don’t want to miss out on this SDRS tradition, spending the day with good friends and lots of roses!

We will be departing at 8:00 a.m. from the parking lot near Inspiration Point in Balboa Park. The parking lot is on the “closer to the harbor” side of President’s Way off of Park Blvd, near the old Balboa Naval Medical Center and the San Diego Veterans’ Memorial Building. (The closest Waze point is President’s Way and Park Blvd.) Our Sun Diego charter bus will take us first to Rose Hills Memorial Park in Whittier where we will tour their gardens of over 600 varieties of roses. From there we will travel to Otto & Sons Nursery in Fillmore where we will have lunch and plenty of time to peruse the thousands of roses they grow. We will have the opportunity to purchase plants and load them onto the bus. We plan to be back in San Diego around 6:00 p.m.

This month’s meeting is Monday, September 19, 2022 at 7:30 p.m. in Room 101 of the Casa del Prado in Balboa Park. We are so honored to have a very special speaker this month, Justin Ekuan. He will be sharing information on the interesting topic of Rose Sports, a fascinating genetic anomaly. His presentation will be preceded by a brief discussion of Phototropism in Roses. Justin comes to us from his home in Dana Point where he has been growing roses for 50 years. He currently grows approximately 130 roses along with other fascinating plants like grafted hibiscus, He and his wife Lilly are the longest standing members of the Orange County Rose Society since 1977 and he is also a member of the San Diego Rose Society. His areas of special interest include exhibition, propagation and photography. Justin is especially well known for his success in grafting roses on to ’Fortuniana’ as well as ‘Pink Cloud’ rootstock. In fact, he has instructed several SDRS members in the techniques of successfully grafting roses. Come join us and learn all about rose sports!

There Will Be a Little Rose Show at this Month’s Meeting!

Bring your best blooms and enter them in our Little Rose Show. It’s fun and not intimidating, and there are awards to be won!

Pre-meeting Rose Care Program with Q&A From 7:00—7:30 p.m. Gary Bulman, Master Rosarian, will be presenting a short program in the Consulting Rosarian Corner about successfully growing roses. His program will be followed by a question and answer period to offer attendees a chance to have individual questions explored and solutions offered.