San Diego Rose Society
Established 1927
An Affiliate of the American Rose Society
2011 Calendar of Events
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January 8, 2011 (Saturday)
Annual Hands-On Rose Pruning Demonstration
Inez Grant Parker Rose Garden (on the east side of Park Boulevard); 9:30 am - 12
Roger English, SDRS Past President, says:
"Learning to prune roses is an ongoing learning process. It took me several years before I began to feel comfortable using pruners, loppers and a saw to accomplish this important task. It is best learned by watching an expert demonstrate the procedure and then having him mentor you. Meet your consulting rosarians at 9:30 A.M. on Saturday, January 8rd at the north end of the garden. Bring your own pruners and gloves. We will break up into small groups and you will have the opportunity to improve your pruning skills on hybrid teas, floribundas and climbers. Floribundas and climbers are pruned quite differently than hybrid teas."
For further information contact: Gary Bulman (gossbulman@cox.net) 760-739-8342
ANNUAL PRUNING INSTRUCTION
AND DEMONSTRATION AT THE PARK
The San Diego Rose Society will hosts it's annual demonstration of how and when to prune roses correctly. Consulting Rosarians from the SDRS will be on hand to demonstrate the correct way to prune hybrid tea, floribunda, shrub, miniature and climbing roses at the Inez Parker Rose Garden in Balboa Park. The pruning will begin at 9:30 AM, Saturday, January 8, 2011.
This is an opportunity to gain hands on instruction in the art of pruning. Instruction will be given by a consulting rosarian and then interested participants will be encouraged to prune bushes, ask questions and really get a feel for the way a bush should be pruned. Bring pruning shears, long gloves if you have them and be prepared to acquire the confidence you need to go home and prune your own bushes without the fear of destroying them.
**CONSULTING ROSARIANS, MARK THIS DAY ON YOUR CALENDAR. WE NEED YOUR
PARTICIPATION!.
January 24, 2011 (4th Monday)
Monthly Meeting
Program: SDRS member Al Heck will take us on a virtual tour of the Wasco rose fields! Wasco, near Bakersfield, is where roses have been grown for J & P, Weeks and others. Filmed at the time of peak production, this presentation will be made by Al Heck.
Free. Visitors are always welcome.
7:30 pm -- Meeting/Program begins
Room 101, Casa del Prado, Balboa Park. ( Map)
February 28, 2011 (4th Monday)
Monthly Meeting
Program: SDRS member Jim Wright will speak on growing roses in San Diego and propagation.
Free. Visitors are always welcome.
7:30 pm -- Meeting/Program begins
Room 101, Casa del Prado, Balboa Park. ( Map)
March 21, 2011 (Monday)
Monthly Meeting
Program: Richard Wright from Edible Eden on Gardening Tools, Pruning Roses & Other Plants!
Free. Visitors are always welcome.
7:30 pm -- Meeting/Program begins
Room 101, Casa del Prado, Balboa Park. ( Map)
April 17, 2011 (Sunday)
OPEN GARDENS 2-5 pm
You Are Invited—and It’s Free!
You are in for a treat on Sunday, April 17, when two of the prettiest rose gardens in San Diego County are open for your viewing. You are welcome any time between 2:00 and 5:00 , and you can visit the gardens in any order convenient to you. Each garden is unique, and all will be serving refreshments.
No reservations are necessary.
Ruth Tiffany's garden in San Carlos has over 500 roses. Her address is 6705 Maury Drive,
San Diego 92119.Dick and Sue Streeper's garden also has hundreds of roses. Their address is 1333 Wenatchee Avenue, El Cajon 92021. This is their 33rd annual open garden.
Please come and enjoy the roses and have a glass of lemonade and a cookie!
April 18, 2011 (Monday)
Monthly Meeting and Little Rose Show
Program: Preparing Roses for Shows, a round robin demonstration and the 1st Little Rose Show of the year!
Free. Visitors are always welcome.
7:30 pm -- Meeting/Program begins
Room 101, Casa del Prado, Balboa Park. ( Map)
April 30, 2011 (Saturday)
2011 Rose Show Results:
Once Upon a Rose
- our 84th Annual Rose ShowRonald Reagan Community Center
195 East Douglas Avenue
El Cajon, California 92020All amateurs are invited to exhibit their roses.
The exhibit hall will be open to the public upon completion of judging,
estimated to be at noon, and will remain open until 5:00 P.M.
Admission is $5.00 per person—Children under 12 admitted free.
Parking is free.
Hosted Rose Show tour: 3:00 P.M.
Directions from San Diego:
Take I-8 East or West to Main St.
Right (East) on Main St about 10 blocks,
Right onto N. Magnolia Ave for 1 block,
Left onto E. Douglas Ave.
The Community Center is in the first block on your right along with parking.Entries will be received from 7:00 A.M. to 9:45 A.M. on April 30, 2011.
Please save the date and plan to exhibit, attend and/or volunteer your help.
For information contact Rose Show Chairperson: Linda Clark
May 14-15, 2011 (Saturday-Sunday)
Highlights:
A visit to the home and garden of Tommy Cairns and Luis Desamero.
The Getty Center in Los Angeles featuring a 134,000 square feet central garden.
Overnight in Bakersfield at the La Quinta South.
A visit to the home and garden of hybridizer Jim Sproul.
Rose Hills Rose Garden.
Details:
Our San Diego Rose Society embraced several Rose Pilgrimages in the 1920s when autos first became a part of our life‟s way. In recent years we have traveled far and wide and many are the great gardens we have seen and the men whose minds gave them life. This year‟s Pilgrimage promises to be among the best ever.
We will gather on May 14th at 8:15 a.m. at the Five Star Parking Lot in downtown San Diego by the Bay at the corner of Pacific Coast Highway and Broadway to meet our Coach America travel bus for a departure at 8:30 a.m. Pilgrims venturing forth should be well fed before arrival as we will travel directly to the Los Angeles basin.
This year‟s San Diego Rose Society rose pilgrimage is one not to be missed. First we will stop in Studio City as guests in the home and rose garden of Tommy Cairns and Luis Desamero. No major rose show in the world is beyond the reach or interest of this pair of rose show exhibitors. They can be recognized at this time as the world's most successful show exhibitors. Tommy is also a recent past president of the American Rose Society and has a hand in the wonderful garden at Rose Hills. Not to be ignored is Luis who is a renowned cook and we will delight in their hospitality with a luncheon by Luis. This is but the beginning.
Second stop of the day will be the nearby Getty Center in Los Angeles that is so rich in display of worldly treasures that it defies description. It is the repository of the wealth of what was one of the world‟s most wealthy men at the time of his death. We will stop there because it has an extensive central garden covering 134,000 square feet created in the heart of the center. Spectacular, stunning, breathtaking is the way the gardens by artist Robert Irwin at the Getty Center in Los Angeles have been described. Many of the plants there owe their origin to production nurseries in San Diego and give us food for thought.
We, with reluctance, will leave the Getty Center with days of interesting discoveries remaining unseen and head northward to bed down and be prepared to see on May 15th yet another delight, the home and garden of a most unusual rose breeder in Bakersfield, California, namely Jim Sproul. A medical doctor he, who has been involved in rose breeding for many-a-year, is now about to receive world-wide recognition. Two of his hybrid rose creations will be offered throughout the United States by Star Roses next year. On the Internet go to http://sproulrosesbydesign.com/Un_named_Seedlings.htm for a preview of what is in store for the visit.We leave Bakersfield with light hearts, for what might be left there to see. We love travel with fellow pilgrims and the word Whittier lifts our hearts like a red red rose. It‟s time for lunch and Swiss Park is at hand and we will return to the inn that has treated us well in a Pilgrimage past for delightful lunch. From there it is a short hop to Rose Hill Memorial Park in Whittier and a walk through what many persons claim is the best public rose garden in the land.
We are fortunate this year to be invited guests of Tommy and Luis for lunch and non-paying guests of the Getty Museum as members of the non-profit San Diego Rose Society. Our hotel in Bakersfield offers a complimentary breakfast and the rose garden at Rose Hills is open to the public without charge. Put this all together and it spells a wonderful weekend for a modest cost.
Please respond promptly if you plan to join this Pilgrimage. Send your check for $150.00 per person payable to the San Diego Rose Society. If you are sharing a room please advise. We expect to charter one bus and take no more than 53 persons. Standard lodging is two persons per hotel room with two double beds. If you wish to have something different, please inquire. Address payment or inquiries to Dick Streeper, 1333 Wenatchee Ave., El Cajon CA 92021 or contact him at 619 448-0321 or streeper@cox.net.
Itinerary:
Saturday, May 14, 2011
8:30am Depart Central Parking Systems lot, Broadway and Pacific Coast Hwy., San Diego
11:00am Arrive at Cairns and Desamero residence in Studio City for lunch by Luis and rose garden tour by Tommy
12:30pm Depart Cairns and Desamero residence
12:50pm Arrive at 1200 Getty Center Drive, Los Angeles, CA Visit selected museum exhibits and Robert Irwin garden
3:00pm Depart Getty Center for Bakersfield
5:15pm Arrive at La Quinta Inn, Bakersfield
Sunday, May 15, 2011
9:00am Depart hotel for Jim Sproul‟s residence and garden
9:15am Arrive at the Sproul residence in Bakersfield. Visit garden and extraordinary rose breeding program
11:15am Depart Sproul residence for Whittier CA
1:15pm Arrive at Swiss Park, Whittier, for lunch
2:00pm Depart Swiss Park for Rose Hills Rose Garden, Whittier
2:10pm Arrive at Rose Hills Rose Garden.
3:00pm Depart Rose Hills for return to San Diego
5:00pm Return to Pilgrimage point of departure
May 16, 2011 (Monday)
Monthly Meeting, Potluck and Little Rose Show
Program: Bob Martin, President, San Diego Rose Society, will speak on "Chinas and Teas". This is a new presentation created by Bob, covering the role of china roses and tea roses in the genetic history of modern roses.
Free. Visitors are always welcome.
6:30 pm -- Pot Luck Dinner. Please bring a dish to share according to your last name as follows:
A through G - Main dish
H through R - Salad or side dish
S through Z - DessertPlease bring your own plates and utensils.
7:30 pm -- Meeting/Program begins
Room 101, Casa del Prado, Balboa Park. ( Map)
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June - July , 2011
San Diego County Fair
Be sure and check out the beautiful rose garden exhibit built by SDRS. Many thanks to all of our volunteers for their hard work.
Fair closed 3 Mondays: June 13, 20 and 27.
To enter roses (register by May ) see their web site: San Diego County Fair Entries
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June 20 , 2011 (Monday)
Monthly Meeting and Little Rose Show
Program:
Our guest speaker at the June meeting will be Pat Nolan. She is one of the best plant pathologists in the world, currently running the San Diego County Plant Disease Clinic.
Pat has been schooled at the University of Minnesota and the University of California, Davis. She worked at the Paul Ecke ranch here in San Diego between schools, and for eight years at a San Diego biotech firm. Pat is one of two plant pathologists born in Cresco, Iowa. The other one is Dr. Norman Bourlag, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work throughout the world.
Plant pathology is somewhat like a mystery novel involving nature, examining cultural conditions, soil conditions, weather, plant nutrician, bacteria, viruses, nematodes, and fungi to solve the mystery.
Among other things, Pat will talk about how to take a soil sample for pH analysis, how to recognize Downy Mildew,salty soil, and her hobby, the study of mushrooms. That includes her membership in the San Diego Mycological Society, which meets in the same room as our Rose Society, but on the 1st Monday of the month. Small world.Free. Visitors are always welcome.7:30 pm -- Meeting/Program begins
Room 101, Casa del Prado, Balboa Park. ( Map)
July , 2011
Garden Tours
No monthly meeting in July.
In July we normally feature tours of members' gardens. These are always terrific events. Watch this space for details as they become available.
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August 6, 2011 (Saturday)
No monthly meeting in August.
August Garden Tour (The Poway - Escondido Tour)
Roses, roses, roses, everywhere. In the ground, in pots, climbers, you name it...more and larger than last year!
We will have another, bigger Garden Tour this August! Be sure to fit these gardens into your Saturday schedules...you will be well rewarded! Then at the end of the day, the Martins will host a Summer Dinner.
Time: 1pm to 5pm
Dinner at the Martins: 5pm to 7pm
Pat Harrison and Andy Quinn - 13003 Avenida La Valencia, Poway, (858) 231-5973. Known as "Les Belles Fleurs," this professionally landscaped home is well known among horticulture circles. There are many beautiful and unusual plantings in addition to about 125 roses. New to our society and to exhibiting, the Harrisons experienced their first show at Walter Anderson Nursery Rose Show this May!About Les Belles Fleurs - by Pat Harrison
Les Belles Fleurs occupies an acre of fertile soil adjacent to a creek. Andy and Pat have lived here for almost 5 years and fell in love with the place when they first saw it. No other home was an option after they saw the garden and all it’s hidden treasures. Included on the property is a peaceful lily pond with waterfall and Koi, a chicken coop, gazebo and a critter-proof potager.While the majority of plants in this organic garden are roses (approximately 125), we also have a large variety of other plants that intertwine along the way such as clematis, salvia, lilies, foxglove etc…. We mulch the garden in March with humic compost and twice a year feed the roses a combination of blood meal, bone meal and alfalfa meal.
The previous owner was a floral designer and consultant who let her imagination run wild while creating a garden where there is always something blooming. Since moving in we’ve made lots of memories in the garden, including pre-prom pictures, birthday parties, egg hunts, open houses, anniversaries and even our own wedding on 07/07/07.
We love sharing our garden and look forward to being part of this Garden tour.Sonja & Gary Bulman - Close to I-15, on the east side, 969 West Fifth Avenue, take 9th Ave exit. (760) 739-8342 or cell (760) 715-9716. An exhibitor‘s garden, the Bulmans‘ have a wonderful selection of all types of roses.
Gary is a top exhibitor with over 250 roses. He isalso the current champion of the rose show at the San Diego County Fair.
Dona & Bob Martin residence - North side of Escondido, east of I-15, 3291 Old Oak Tree Ln, (760) 317-5894 or cell (602) 430-6941. This is a newer neighborhood of single story homes on acres.
Bob is the current President of SDRS, a nationally recognized author, hybridizer and exhibitor. Dona has also exhibited nationally and is our newsletter editor. They have about 400 roses and new seedlings.
Martin home - at the end of a cul de sac (Broadway to North Ave, rt to Kaywood, left to Old Oak Tree Ln, which will curve to left to end of street.)
Marianne & Dave Putnam - East side of Escondido, south of I-78 east, east off of Bear Valley Parkway onto Choya Canyon Rd, left on Chaparral, at 750 Chaparral Lane. (760) 743-6763 or cell (760) 445-2274. Road splits at its end, garden is to the left.
Marianne Putnam, a newer member, is the owner of one of Escondido's finest and most unique rose gar-dens, with over 400 roses and doz-ens of arbors, pillars and other structures. She has also been fea-tured in San Diego Home & Garden. In addition to the roses, she has dahlias, zinnias and other summer blooming flowers. This was the hit garden of last year‘s tour!
Visit the gardens in any order and on your own time table. If you cannot come during the scheduled time, you may call the owners to perhaps schedule an earlier time or different day. Family and friends are welcome!
Reservations for the dinner are due by August 3rd. Please call Dona Martin at 760-317-5894 to confirm. Checks should be payable to SDRS, $15.00 per person. Contact: donamartinca@aol.com
September 19, 2011 (Monday)
Monthly Meeting and Little Rose Show
Program: The Septemer Info BlitzThe September general meeting of the San Diego Rose Society usually sees a number of new members who joined at the San Diego County Fair attending for the first time. As such, the September program offers an ideal time to not only introduce who we are and what we're about to the first-timers, but also remind the old-timers about what goes on and what's what.
To do this,a panel of about twenty members will spend two or three minutes each covering different subjects Al Heck, our program chair, will act as Master of Ceremonies, handling introductions, the clock, and the hook, so the meeting is not only comprehensive and entertaining, but ends on time.
Free. Visitors are always welcome.
7:30 pm -- Meeting/Program begins
Room 101, Casa del Prado, Balboa Park. ( Map)
October 1, 2011 (Saturday)
East County Rose Society Rose Show
Location: Foothills Adult Education Center
1550 Melody Lane, El Cajon, 92019
Entries 7:00-9:45am; Viewing 12:00-5:00pm
For more information:
See: http://www.eastcountyrosesociety.com/calendar.html or
Contact Rose Show Chairperson: Sharon McColgan
October 17, 2011 (Monday)
Monthly Meeting, Potluck and final Little Rose Show of the year.
Program: Worm Show!Free. Visitors are always welcome.
6:30 pm -- Pot Luck Dinner - Please bring a dish to share that will serve eight, along with a serving utensil and your own plate and flatware. Drinks will be provided.
A through G - Dessert
H through Q - Main dish
R through Z - Salad or side dish7:30 pm -- Meeting/Program begins
Room 101, Casa del Prado, Balboa Park. ( Map)
October 22-23, 2011 (Saturday-Sunday)
Walter Andersen Poway Rose Show
Location: 12755 Danielson Court, Poway - (858) 513-4900
Entries Saturday 8:00-10:30am
Judging Saturday 11:00am-1:00pm
Viewing Saturday 1:00-5:00pm, Sunday 9:00am-4:00pm
Free and open to the publicThe Walter Andersen Nursery in Poway, adjacent to the intersection of Scripps Poway Parkway and Community Road, is hosting a rose show October 22-23. Entries are accepted from 8:00 to 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, and judging happens from 11:00 until 1:00. The cool thing is that you can watch the judging because it's done right there on the nursery grounds. The show itself opens for look-see on Saturday from 1:00 until 5:00 and again on Sunday from 9 to 4. In the past, the show has been well-received by both novice exhibitors and experienced exhibitors alike because it's so cozy and welcoming. An especially great place for a Novice to enter a rose or two.
November 21, 2011 (Monday)
Monthly Meeting
Program: GROW MORE: Manufacturer of Water Solubles, Liquids, Organics, Hydroponics
and Specialty Products for our Western Soil.Representative Dexter Friede will discuss their products and have samples of those we use
on our roses!Free. Visitors are always welcome.
7:30 pm -- Meeting/Program begins
Room 101, Casa del Prado, Balboa Park. ( Map)
December 10, 2011 (Saturday)
HOLIDAY LUNCHEON
All San Diego Rose Society members and guests are invited.
Every year, instead of a regular meeting of the Rose Society in December, we schedule a holiday bash. It's a chance to mingle without an agenda, talk about any darn thing we want, and generally have a great time.
When: December 10, 2011; Noon to 3 p.m.
Where: home and garden of Linda Clark
10656 Fuerte Drive, La Mesa, CA 91941
Food: Luncheon catered by Cupid's Catering
How much: $15
Reservations required.See you there!
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