Hello Fellow SDRS Members! Our monthly meeting in April will be on Monday, April 15th and will begin at 6:30 p.m. We are excited to kick off the month of April with our first Little Rose Show! We will have 5 shows this Little Rose Show season....one each in April, May, June, September and October. Kristine and I presented the new and exciting Little Rose Show Powerpoint in March detailing the new show rules and we want to encourage each and every one of you to bring your roses to stage and present for our kick off show. This will help to ready ourselves for the upcoming rose show season. I know that some of you are hesitant to bring your roses but we wanted to reassure you that this is a fun and exciting way to participate in our rose society. Along with the programs that we have been bringing you we also want to emphasize that participating in our Little Rose Show is very fun and a great learning experience without pressure. A copy of the new 2024 Little Rose Show rules can be dowloaded here.
We will have stations set up as in previous years to help everyone of you to take your single rose stems and learn how to prep your roses and stage them in the vases. We will have our own Linda Clark to assist also. Linda is the chairperson for our SDRS rose show coming up in May. Linda will go through each entry and will educate us all on what the judges are expecting in a bloom. She will also describe what the proper ways are to stage and groom each flower. As we mentioned we will also be adding a new category called the Premier Table. For this category our seasoned exhibitors will groom and stage their roses, and enter them so that we can all see an example of what each type of rose should look like to gain the most exhibition points. So we are also asking our seasoned exhibitors to bring their best roses for the night to help us all along in our journey of the exciting and fun of exhibiting roses!
Meeting location: Casa del Prado’s room 101, in Balboa Park.
We will have our first Little Rose Show of the year this month.
There will be NO rose auction at this meeting.
There will be NO CR, photography or arrangement corners this month.
Special Note: At the conclusion of this month’s meeting, we are requesting that a small group of interested members assemble who would like to discuss the possible options for celebrating our society’s 100th anniversary which will be occurring in 2027. We need your thoughts and ideas about how best to carry out this celebration. If you are interested please contact Ruth Tiffany at ruthsgarden @ msn.com.
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.