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.