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!