Come enjoy our October program on October 18, 2021 at 7:30 p.m. presented by Bob Martin who has the distinction of serving as the most recent president of the American Rose Society. He has just finished his three year term, where he initiated new ideas and helped with the vast expansion and improvements in the ARS National Rose Garden in Shreveport, Louisiana. Bob maintains a rose garden of more than 650 roses of all types at his home in Escondido, CA. He is well known for the programs he has presented on many rose topics throughout the United States. He is the national editor of Horizon Roses, an annual review by the nation’s top exhibitors of new exhibition roses. Many of us know Bob as an avid exhibitor of roses at various local and national shows and his expertise on this topic is well known.
His program at this meeting is a new (2021) program on the most recent publication of Horizon Roses 2021, featuring comments of the nation's top rose exhibitors on the exhibition potential of roses released in America in the last five years. This year for the first time comments on the newest shrubs and polyanthas are added to those on hybrid teas, floribundas, minifloras and miniature roses. The program is accompanied by beautiful photographs, many by Bob and Dona Martin, and others by the introducers of the newest roses. Whether you are an experienced exhibitor of roses, are just considering starting to exhibit or are just interested in knowing about beautiful roses on the ‘horizon’ that you can have in your garden, we hope you can all attend this information-packed meeting. Come and enjoy!
The meeting will also include a raffle, a T-shirt sale, introductions, and catching up on rose society news. A new feature at our monthly meetings will be a silent auction of five own-root roses facilitated by Bill Ornelas. (See page 3 for more information.) 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.
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.