Buds & Blooms November 2017

Jacksonville Rose Society An ARS Affiliate

Inside this issue:

Nov. in the Garden 5

Meeting Minutes 7

President’s Message 7

November Program 8

Calendar of Events 8

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Choosing Roses for Your Northeast Florida Garden - Part 1 by Wayne Myers, Master Rosarian

What choices lead to successful rose-growing in Florida? You see a beautiful rose bloom and want it in your garden—easy in some states, but not in Florida. Most roses suffer dreadfully in our heat and humidity that create perfect conditions for leaf-spot diseases like black spot and Cercospora. Most roses are miserable when summer temperatures reach 90°F, and Florida roses have no winter dormancy, which some rosarians believe is essential for great roses. However, by carefully choosing rose varieties, sizes, and rootstocks that are proven performers in Florida, you can enjoy beautiful roses that win rose show prizes or provide lots of landscape

color with very little care. It’s your choice!

First, decide whether you have the time, the will, and the discipline to spray! Then choose your rose varieties. To survive in NE Florida, roses must have excel-

lent genetic disease resistance to black spot and other fungus diseases, or be

sprayed with fungicide regularly. Will you be happy if you obligate yourself to spraying pesticides in your garden? Most of the readily available modern roses, as well as many older rose varieties, require fungicide spray EVERY two weeks to

prevent ugliness and slow death from black spot.

Second, make sure that the plants you choose will grow to be the sizes and

shapes that you want. Your garden is your most valuable asset. It’s your per -sonal space to add color and beauty to the outside of your home. Like any other landscape plant, a rose bush should meet your expectations as to the size, shape, and

growth habit of the plant. To grow those coveted

blooms you need the right variety in the right spot.

The classification system for roses can be helpful. Most roses have been assigned to classes according to their growth habit as well as genetic heritage. For example, you can generalize that a hybrid tea will grow upright to a height of 4-6 feet tall and be approximately one-third to one-half as wide as it is tall. In recurring flushes, it will bear large blooms, singly or in small clusters. Floribunda roses usual-ly grow only slightly taller than wide and bear large clusters of medium-sized blooms in repeating cy-cles. Polyanthas are small and bushy, covered with

large clusters of small flowers when in bloom.

However, the “catch-all” modern shrub class is a recently established category because modern roses are so genetically complex and varied that they don’t fit neatly in the traditional classes. Many of the modern shrubs will have blooms continuously during the growing season rather than recurring flushes of flowers. There are many times more

Refreshments for the

November meeting

will be provided by:

Jean Alexander Claire Aschmeyer John Bottensek

Cheryl Buck

Conflict? Call Ed or Cheryl Buck at

997-1088

Beverly: This pink hybrid tea was

introduced in the U.S. in 2008. Not-

ed for its excellent disease resistance,

in 2016 it won a blue ribbon in the

Gainesville Rose Show in the fully

open hybrid tea competition. The

three-year-old plant has never been

sprayed with fungicide. From Kordes

of Germany’s Eleganza® collection,

she has won prizes for excellence and

fragrance in eight different countries

around the world.

Because of the length of this month’s feature

article, it will be run in two parts. Part 2 will be continued in the December issue.

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modern shrubs sold today than all the other classes

combined.

From minis to house-eating monsters, rose plants come in all sizes. If you’re not sure of the size or natural growth habit of a rose you want, ask a local rosarian who knows the variety. Many rose plants will grow bigger in Florida, especially if grafted on Fortuniana rootstock. Early in my rose hobby I discovered that hybrid teas should be bedded five to six feet apart ra-ther than the three feet that is common in cooler cli-

mates.

Third, decide whether rootstock is im-

portant. Roses are genetically complex and do not reproduce from seed. They must be cloned by cutting pieces from “mother” plants. It is commercially ad-vantageous to accelerate this process by grafting small pieces of the desired variety

onto established root systems.

University of Florida research in the 1960s demonstrated that roses grafted onto For-

tuniana become larger plants and pro-

duce more blooms. They also stay

healthier and live longer because the roots are re-

sistant to damaging nematodes that thrive in our

warm, sandy soil.

However, Fortuniana roses are more expensive and less widely available because of the additional time and

skilled labor required to produce the plants.

A few decades ago, almost all commercially available roses were sold as grafted plants. Several factors were

involved:

1) Rootstocks optimized for conditions in mass-production rose farms provided commercial uniformity

and took much less time to grow into sellable plants,

2) Most rose varieties grafted onto optimized root-stocks produced bigger, healthier plants with more

blooms,

3) Labor skilled in grafting and production was cheap,

4) Particular rootstocks, ‘Dr. Huey’ for example, worked uniformly well within the mass-production practice of harvesting and shipping roses bare root.

Now that skilled labor is scarcer and more expensive, more roses are being grown and sold on their own roots

or mass produced in pots, even in large-scale commer-cial production. Many small retail producers ship their roses in pots instead of bare root because potted roses are easier to care for and more tolerant of delays before

planting.

Most consumers today prefer to see flowers on any plant they buy. They want easy planting, continuous blooming, and minimal post-planting care. Bare root roses need more complicated bed preparation and much

more post-planting water and care.

Which roses should I choose if I want to

exhibit and win at rose shows? Below is an excellent list of winners compiled in late 2016 by our Deep South District Di-rector Ralph Stream. He polled the rose societies in Florida, Georgia, and Alabama to compile the following lists of recom-mended roses. Keep in mind that most

need regular fungicide spray!

Furthermore, Ralph is a champion rose exhibitor who strives for perfection. He strongly recommends Fortuniana-grafted roses and sprays his roses with religious

devotion. His version of Integrated Pest Management

is “zero tolerance” for pests or disease in his garden.

These lists include mostly show-winning varieties that must be sprayed. However, I know that some of these gorgeous, show-table stars thrive without fungicide. I have highlighted them in the following tables. Jack-sonville’s Ray Guillebeau highly recommends the four highlighted miniatures, and adds a personal favorite—’Nashville Music’.

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Beverly Hannah Gordon Breath of Spring

Heart of Gold Iceberg Cooper

Louise Estes Kanegem Daddy Frank

Mister Lincoln Lady of the Dawn Fairhope

Moonstone Novalis Joy

Nine Eleven Play Girl Magic Show

Pope John Paul II Sexy Rexy Pierinne

Touch of Class Sun Flare Tiffany Lynn

Veterans’ Honor Sunsprite Whirlaway

Hybrid Teas Floribundas Minis & Minifloras

Bon Silène: Hybridized and intro-

duced before 1837, this little-

known, very-old tea rose grows

well and stays clean in a no-spray

North Florida garden.

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This chart was copied from a DSD website library arti-cle by Ralph Stream, “DSD Top 10 Recommenda-

tions.”

Fortuniana is the rootstock of champions in the Deep South, and increasingly the rest of the country in loca-tions where the frost-tender roots and high graft are not subject to winter cold injury.

Where can I buy these show roses on Fortuniana? The best sources in the Southeast are K&M Roses of Bucatunna, MS, (kandmroses.com) and Cool Roses of West Palm Beach, FL, (coolroses.com). Both vendors accept mail orders by phone and through their websites and sell at DSD meetings. Cool Roses also sells at the

annual Jacksonville rose show.

Nelson’s Roses of Apopka, FL, (nelsons-florida-roses.myshopify.com) supplies Fortuniana-grafted ros-es, mostly popular old varieties, to some retail outlets in Florida, including Philips Garden Store and Hard-

ware on Herschel Street in Jacksonville.

Are no-spray rose varieties available for Northeast Florida gardens? YES, is the good news—the buzzword to describe no-spray roses is “sustainable.”

Most Old Garden Roses (OGRs) thrive without

spray. By definition, all OGR classes existed before 1867, before the first recorded use of man-made pesti-cides near the end of the nineteenth century. The great roses before pesticides are still great roses, but of course some are unsuitable for our Florida’s heat and

humidity.

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Most of the OGR Tea, China, and Noisette classes thrive without spray as do most of the Polyanthas, most of the Bermuda Mystery Roses, and most of the Spe-cies roses. Current rose production is trending toward selling roses on their own roots. However, most OGR rose varieties grafted onto Fortuniana rootstock will

grow bigger, bloom more, and last longer.

The Ace Hardware at 1022 Blanding Boulevard in Or-ange Park carries a basic selection of own-root OGRs. K&M and Cool Roses sell OGRs as well as modern roses. Jacksonville is fortunate to have two small retail nurseries within a two-hour drive that offer wide selec-tions of OGRs on their own roots. Rose Petals (rosepetalsnursery.com) near Newberry, FL and Angel Gardens (angelgardens.com) near Alachua, FL, have

excellent websites.

Roses Unlimited of Laurens, SC, (rosesunlimitedsc. com) and the Antique Rose Emporium of Brenham, TX, (antiqueroseemporium.com) also have wide selec-tions, beautiful websites, and great customer service for

mail order.

Wayne Myers’ Favorites from over 25 years of

growing roses in Northeast Florida:

Most of the OGR China class Roses (favorites listed)

Most of the OGR Tea class Roses (favorites listed)

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Shrubs & Climbers OGRs

Abraham Darby Blush Noisette

Belinda’s Dream Bon Silène

Carefree Beauty Champneys’ Pink Cluster

Darcey Bussell Louis Philippe

Dortmund Mrs B.R. Cant

Heritage Mutabilis

Jude the Obscure Paul Neyron

Molineux Pink Pet

Prosperity Old Blush

Sally Holmes Rêve d’Or

Archduke Charles Cramoisi Superieur Fellemberg Green Rose Hermosa Louis Philippe

Mutabilis Napoleon Old Blush Papa Hemeray Pink Pet

Arethusa Baronne Henriette de Snoy Duchesse de Brabant Mme Lombard Mme Antoine Mari Mamon Cochet Marie d’Orleans Marie Van Houtte

Monsieur Tillier Mrs B.R. Cant Mrs Dudley Cross Rose Nabonnand Rosette Delizy Safrano William R. Smith

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Most of the OGR Noisette class Roses (favorites

listed)

Although all classes of OGRs existed before the discovery of fun-gicides, many OGR classes are unsuitable for Florida for other reasons. First, our climate does not have enough winter chill for the once-blooming North-ern-European classes (Albas,

Centifolias, Gallicas, and Mosses) to set blooms. Sec-ond, most of the varieties in several repeat-blooming OGR classes (Bourbons, Damasks, and Hybrid Perpet-uals) are not sustainable because they are very suscepti-

ble to black spot.

Most of the Modern Polyantha class Roses (favorites listed). Although not technically classed as OGRs be-cause they were hybridized after 1867, Polyanthas were popular from the 1890s through the 1940s. Most of them are smaller plants than most OGRs. Most repeat-edly bear big clusters of small flowers. As prolifically blooming, smaller plants, they have been replaced in popularity by floribundas which bear large clusters of

larger flowers.

Other Favorites

F. J. Grootendorst (and other hybrid rugosa roses graft-ed onto Fortuniana rootstock) Mermaid Souvenir de la Malmaison, Climbing only (not the shrub) Tausendschὅn (large, almost thornless climber)

The Bermuda Mystery Roses (Favorites listed)

Most of the Species Roses (favor ites listed) Cherokee rose (R. laevigata) Swamp rose (R. palustris) Chestnut rose (R. roxburghii) R. gigantea Lady Banks’ rose (R. banksiae) Macartney rose (R. bracteata) R. rugosas alba & rubra (grafted on Fortuniana)

Brightside Cream: This Bermuda Mystery Rose was found in the 1950’s. A climber that grows long, supple canes, it blooms throughout the year, has excellent disease resistance, and delicious fragrance.

Clotilde Soupert Excellenz von Schubert La Marne Mlle Cecile Brunner Marie Pavie Mevrouw Nathalie Nypels

Mrs R. M. Finch Perle d’Or Phyllis Bide, Climbing The Fairy Verdun Weeping China Doll White Pet

Belfield Bermuda Kathleen Brightside Cream Emmie Gray

St. David’s Smith’s Parish (Red & White) Spice Vincent Godsiff

Rosa palustris: A species rose native to North America, commonly known as the “Swamp Rose,” this once-blooming rose is na-tive to Florida, growing wild in swampy areas. This rose was first described in 1726. Dr. Malcolm Man-ners of Florida Southern College in Lakeland found this unusual reblooming version in Sumter County.

F.J. Grootendorst: This 1915 hybrid rugosa was hybridized in the Netherlands. The rugosas are native to Northern Asia and this variety is recommended for Northern Sweden, but it surprises us by thriving in North Florida without spray if grafted onto ‘Fortuniana’ rootstock. It’s a frequent show winner in the Classic Shrub competition.

Next month in Part 2 Wayne will discuss the many new varieties that are sustainable in Northeast Florida. His entire article is available now on our website at jacksonvillerosesociety.org.

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November in the Garden by Wayne Myers, Master Rosarian

Our cool weather should return this month. Growth will slow but blooms should be big and vividly-colored.

1. If your rose varieties need fungicide spray, contin-ue spraying until frosty weather. 2. Reduce watering to once per week. Even if the weather is dry, water no more than twice per week un-less you’re sure your roses are thirsty. 3. Don’t fertilize; test your soil if you’re dissatisfied with your roses. 4. Deadhead early for Christmas blooms. 5. Grow hips. 6. Plan and plant for next year. Start your garden re-

modeling and rejuvenation.

SPRAY: As we warned last month, cool weather is ideal for powdery mildew. If you have a severe prob-lem, consider using a specialty fungicide rated for pow-dery mildew. If your varieties need spray, keep up your spray routine. Dr. Windham’s black spot research in Tennessee indicated that if you grow disease-prone varieties near your disease resistant varieties, black spot that develops will spread much more easily to your re-sistant varieties than if they were isolated. However, the good news is that unless you want perfectly clean foliage, you can stop spraying as chilly weather arrives. You may have a second pestilence of western flower

thrips as the weather cools.

Chilli thrips reproduce more slowly as the weather cools, but they do NOT go away. Our few frosts are not sufficient to kill them. Don’t confuse the stunted growth caused by chilli thrips infestations for the typi-

cally slower growth during winter.

WATER: Roses love water , and in our well-drained, sandy, Florida soil, it is difficult to overwater roses. However, one year I lost roses to a root-rot fungus that probably resulted from continued thrice-weekly water-ing during cool, wet, fall weather. Decrease watering to once weekly in accordance with the St. Johns River Water Management District mandates. Drip irrigation and hand-watering are exempted from the restrictions so enjoy hand-watering if we have a spell of hot, dry weather. Installing a drip system in your rose beds will save water and result in healthier plants and more blooms. In any case, make sure your roses are well

mulched to preserve water and discourage weeds.

FEEDING AND SOIL TESTING: DO NOT FER-TILIZE—frost will damage the tender, new growth stimulated by November fertilizer applications. During this hiatus in feeding is the best time to take soil tests,

especially for pH, as well as nutrient levels.

pH: Roses thrive in slightly acidic soil, approxi-mately 6.5. November, a month we’re not feeding, is also an excellent time to adjust pH in your beds—a pro-cess that takes considerable time. The required sulfur to lower the pH (make your soil more acidic) or lime to raise the pH (make it more alkaline) can take months to change your soil enough to improve the ability of the roots to draw nutrients from the soil. If you decide to add lime, make sure it is dolomitic or agricultural, not hydrated. Hydrated lime will kill your roses. If your

roses have been thriving, don’t bother with soil tests.

I recommend buying an inexpensive soil tester and do-ing most of the testing yourself. I was shocked to learn that soil pH can vary widely in what seem to be similar beds nearby. Using your own tester, you can test in many places. If preliminary testing shows values con-sistently above 6.9 or below 6.2, you should have your soil tested by a commercial service or through your local Extension Office of the Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS). Here is a link to the IFAS soil testing information—http://solutionsforyourlife.ufl. edu/hot_topics/agriculture/soil_testing.html. Here is the link to the SL136 form to fill out and submit with your soil sample—http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ss187. Roses are classified as “woody ornamentals”—Crop Code 602. The instructions on page two of the form explain how the samples must be collected to obtain reliable results. Follow the instruc-

tions carefully.

pH and ‘Dr. Huey’ Rootstock: ‘Dr . Huey’ is one of the most widely used rootstocks for grafting roses in the U.S. Thomas Proll, the lead hybridizer for Kordes Roses of Germany, told me the reason for its wide-spread use: ‘Dr. Huey’ has the unusual characteristic for roses of thriving in slightly alkaline soil. The soil in the Southwest where the major U.S. commercial rose farms are located has naturally alkaline soil; by using ‘Dr. Huey’ commercial growers can mass produce

healthy roses without the expense of acidifying the soil.

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Jacksonville Rose Society

Membership

Single or Family ................................................ $24 Life member .......................................................$200

Make checks payable to the Jacksonville Rose Society and send to:

Franki Weddington, Membership 2842 Moorsfield Lane

Jacksonville, FL 32225-4703

Meetings

Meetings are held at 7:00 p.m. on the first Tuesday of each

month except for January, June, and July. We meet at the Gar-den Club of Jacksonville, 1005 Riverside Avenue.

JRS Web site: www.jacksonvillerosesociety.org

den infrastructure changes. Hard work in the garden is so much easier in cool weather. Clarify your plans this month. Build new beds and erect new structures. Im-prove your watering system so that you use less water overall while improving the availability of water to your roses’ roots. If you add a new bed, complete it soon. The soil organisms will break down the organics,

improving the soil over the winter.

Analyze your approach to growing roses. Will fewer or more disease-resistant plants make you happier? Should you fulfill dreams by adding new varieties? Is a favorite languishing in an ill-suited location? Will shovel pruning poor-performing plants allow space for varieties that have better disease resistance or that ful-

fill your longing for the newest garden stars?

Because Florida roses never really go dormant as they would in colder climates, we can plant anytime during our “winter.” In fact some rose experts suggest that winter dormancy is a genetic trait that has been sup-pressed by the genes for continuous blooming that were

introduced from Chinese roses.

November is a great time to plant container-grown new varieties. The plants may look quiet, but because the soil never freezes, the roots are establishing in their new homes. You will have a much stronger and faster growing plant in the spring. However, don’t plant cut-tings or tiny plants from mail-order suppliers outside—these may be killed by the frosts of December and Jan-uary.

Wayne

DEADHEADING: Enjoy cutting your beautiful fall flowers. Rose blooms are a wonderful addition to the Thanksgiving table. If you continue to deadhead early in the month, new blooms will appear in 6-8 weeks. If we have a mild fall, you will have roses for Christmas. If frosts are mild through December, you’ll love the late blooms. Of course, an early, hard freeze will kill new growth. Our roses would normally stop flowering and produce hips as days become shorter and cooler

with less intense sunlight.

HIPS: The hips that grow on different var ieties will have nearly as much variance in size, shape, and color as the blooms. The hips are green as they form but change colors as they ripen. ‘Cherokee Rose’ hips look like furry, yellow-green bottles then turn brown. ‘Rugosa’ rose hips tend to be relatively large, roundish, and orange to red. ‘Mutabilis’ and other China rose hips will tend to be small, round, and black. ‘Karen Poulsen’s’ hips ripen to orange. The Hybrid Musk ‘Ballerina’ will have sprays of tiny, shiny-red balls. ‘Don Juan’ and ‘Mister Lincoln’ form huge, globular hips. The hips of ‘Altissimo’ look like perfect little pumpkins. All these and many more varieties add won-derful color and texture to holiday arrangements and decorations. Birds enjoy eating hips—yet another rea-son to let your roses make fruit this winter. If you don’t spray, you could try rose-hip tea or jam, both an excellent source of vitamin C.

Roses will grow from seed, but except for seeds from a species rose that has pollinated itself, no rose seeds will grow plants exactly like the plant that produced the hip. Rose genetics are very complicated—similar to the ge-netic diversity of human beings. A fun experiment is to read up on growing roses from seed, then to grow new plants from the seeds of your favorite variety. Keep in mind, though, that commercial hybridizers will throw away thousands of seedlings while searching for a sin-gle commercially viable variety. They carefully select proven, parent plants. One thing in your favor though is that a new baby rose plant’s first effort will be to re-produce itself by flowering. It’s amazing, in a hybrid-izer’s green house, to see full-sized flowers on such new, tiny plants.

PLANNING AND PLANTING: Here in Florida, late fall and winter are the best time to make major gar-

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Hopefully the weather is going to cool down. It has been such a long, hot summer. Amazingly my roses are doing great. I am truly amazed at how healthy and non-stop blooming my ‘Savannah’ and ‘Beverly’ roses are. I am deadheading every day and taking blooms inside as well.

By the time you read this I will have just returned from the Deep South District Fall Convention and Rose Show in Tallahassee. For any of you who have never attended a rose convention, please consider attending one. You will get hooked. It is a lot of fun and you make new friends from all over the south. Moreover, I always learn a lot about what is happening in the rose

world.

I look forward to seeing you at our next meeting on November 7.

Karrie

President’s Message by Karrie Massee

It Happened Last Month - Minutes of General Meeting

Jacksonville Rose Society General Membership Meeting

Garden Club of Jacksonville Club Room October 3, 2017

The meeting was called to order by President Karrie Massee at 7:11 p.m. Twenty members were in at-

tendance. Karrie welcomed all attendees.

Minutes of the September 5, 2017, meeting were ap-

proved as printed in the October 2017 Buds & Blooms.

Shirley Teerlink announced that we have yearbooks

and were given out to all attendees.

Wayne Myers announced that he is still working on

the program for the November meeting.

Ray Guillebeau spoke about the upcoming Mini Na-tional Convention. All the information about the con-vention is on the website. The Lexington Hotel didn't have any damage from the hurricane and things are

going along smoothly.

Everyone was asked to complete the Roses in Review

on the ARS website.

It was the consensus of the attendees to hold the annual Christmas Party at the Winterbourne. Potluck Supper

as usual with the club furnishing the ham/turkey.

Bonnie Diamond gave an update on Ron that he had to go back in the hospital on Friday. Hopefully he will

be released to home care soon.

Mabel Keller, Ray Guillebeau, and Wayne Myers took questions from attendees about fertilizing, water-

ing, favorite roses, and numerous other topics.

Ray and Diane conducted the raffle.

The meeting adjourned at 8:10 p.m.

Diane Smith, Secretary

Jacksonville Rose Society 2017-2018

Officers President Karrie Massee

1st Vice President Ray Guillebeau

2nd Vice President Wayne Myers Treasurer Lyndy Myers

Secretary Diane Smith

Past President Krista Donchez

Directors

Hayes Basford

Sughra Dhanji

Ron Diamond Sandy Dixon

Consulting Rosarians

Middleburg Chris & Mabel Keller 282-4877 Orange Park Karrie Massee 264-6070 St. Augustine Wayne & Lyndy Myers 272-7885

Southside Gene Waering 646-239-7935

Westside Sandy Dixon 778-2887 Ray Guillebeau 728-5957

Buds & Blooms Editors

Lyndy Myers & Shirley Teerlink

www.jacksonvillerosesociety.org

NEXT MEETING

DATE: Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2017

PLACE: Jacksonville Garden Club 1005 Riverside Ave.

TIME: 7:00 p.m.

PROGRAM: Choosing Roses for Your Northeast Florida Garden by Wayne Myers

720 Kendall Brook Lane St. Augustine, FL 32095-6862

Disclaimer The JRS makes no warranty, expressed or

implied, with respect to the material contained herein. The advice and information in this

newsletter is believed to be accurate and true. The editors and JRS cannot accept any legal

responsibility for any errors.

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Jacksonville Rose Society An ARS Affiliate

• November 7—JACKSONVILLE ROSE SOCIE-TY MEMBERSHIP MEETING, 7:00 p.m.

• November 21—JACKSONVILLE ROSE SOCI-ETY BOARD MEETING, 7:00 p.m., Winter -

bourne

• December 5—JACKSONVILLE ROSE SOCIE-TY HOLIDAY PARTY, 7:00 p.m. Winter -bourne Inn, Orange Park . Details in Dec. B&B

Schedule of Events

Our November Program

Our November program will feature Wayne

Myers who will discuss how to choose roses

that do well in our area. Anyone who’s tried to

grow roses for a while knows picking the right

plants makes a world of difference in growing

success.

Deep South District

The Deep South District Bulletin is distributed in color by

email to all members of local rose societies within the Deep South District, and to all American Rose Society

members residing in Alabama, Georgia, and Florida who

have a current address on file with ARS. If you cannot access the newsletter by email, you may request a printed

copy for a charge of $20 per year. Send your name, ad-

dress with 9-digit ZIP code, phone number, and check for $20 made payable to “The Deep South District” to:

Kay Harrell, DSD Treasurer

121 Shore Rush Circle

St. Simons Island, GA 31522-1420

www.deepsouthdistrict.org

American Rose Society PO Box 30000

Shreveport, LA 71130

Membership benefits include the American Rose magazine, the American Rose Annual, the Handbook for Selecting Roses,

and specialty bulletins available online.

American Rose Society web site: www.rose.org