The San Diego Rose Society will meet for the first time IN PERSON in 18 months on Monday, September 20, 2021 at 7:30pm, in Room 101 of Casa del Prado in Balboa Park.
The main meeting is entitled "BACK TO SCHOOL." How many of us, in our youth, looked forward to the return to school, and to see old friends in September? A panel of some of our very own San Diego Rose Society expert rosarians and exhibitors, including Ken Huff, Gary Bulman, Bill and Elaine Ornelas, Robert Russell, Sue Streeper, and perhaps another surprise rose expert, will share their personal rose stories, wisdom, perspectives, and opinions on rose culture that surely will inspire and spark your curiosity. Questions from our many new SDRS members as well as long standing members are encouraged. Come prepared to ask your rose questions following the panel’s informative discussion.
The meeting will also include a raffle, a T-shirt sale, introductions, catching up on rose society news, and will conclude with info and photos from the last SDRS rose show and Pacific Southwest District Convention held at the Marriott Hotel in El Cajon on June 12-13, 2021. A new feature to our monthly meetings will be a silent auction of five own-root roses facilitated by Bill Ornelas.
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.
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.
To stay in compliance with current government health requirements/restrictions and to protect our members from COVID infection, attendees who are not fully vaccinated must wear masks for this indoor meeting. Per the CDC, if you are fully vaccinated, to maximize protection from the Delta variant and prevent possibly spreading it to others, wear a mask indoors in public if you are in an area of substantial or high transmission. We are planning on moving seating so that there is more distance between attendees.
To further protect our members there will be NO coffee service or unwrapped food items for this meeting. Please wait to bring your treats from home until we enter a safer time. There will be wa- ter bottles and a supply of wrapped granola bars and chips available.
Hand sanitizer will be available.
Chihuly from Ken Huff’s garden