Our meeting is on Monday, January 24, 2022 at 7:30 p.m. in Room 101 of Casa del Prado in Balboa Park. We are privileged to have Hudson Elliott as our speaker for this meeting. Hudson has been working for the Armstrong Garden Center in Del Mar for the last thirteen 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 fourteen 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!
The meeting will also include a raffle, introductions, and an update on rose society news. We will continue with having a silent auction of five or more roses facilitated by Bill Ornelas.
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. 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.
Please Note: The SDRS monthly meeting for January and February this year are scheduled for the 4th Monday of the month instead of the usual 3rd Monday.
Balboa Park requires that masks be worn inside all buildings regardless of vaccination status. So masks must be worn for this SDRS monthly meeting in room 101.
To further protect our members there will be no coffee service. There will be water bottles available. Hand sanitizer will be available.
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