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.