Patron Member of the American Rose Society VOL. LXXXVII NO.5 JOURNAL OF THE SAN DIEGO ROSE SOCIETY MAY President s Message

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1 Rose Ramblings Patron Member of the American Rose Society VOL. LXXXVII NO.5 JOURNAL OF THE SAN DIEGO ROSE SOCIETY MAY 2015 President s Message By Gary Bulman - gossbulman@cox.net The Rose Doc (Ted Mills from ARS Magazine), was lamenting his rough year with the loss of several rose bushes. He attributes this loss to climate change and longer periods of freezing temperatures in his neck of the woods with the changing jet stream. This changing jet stream is a problem that we will have to deal with as well due to our ever present above-average temperatures and lack of rain. My roses have not bloomed as I planned when I pruned them and yet the first bloom cycle hasn t been all bad. Perhaps we will have to adjust our rose care and pruning to a different rotation so that we might pull one extra cycle of bloom out of Mother Nature. One of our biggest projects of the year has passed with the completion of a very successful rose show. Yes, the number of entries was smaller than expected but that didn t detract from the teamwork and commitment of our members. Properties were moved from storage in Balboa Park to Liberty Station where our venue was transformed into a spacious place to display our roses. The show went on for two days and the tear down was accomplished in the same efficient manner by members who appeared to have done it all before. However, this display of efficiency wouldn t have happened without the expertise and leadership of Linda Clark, our chairperson for this event. Well done Linda! A surprise visit by Dixie Dahl on Sunday afternoon was a great highlight when she announced that she was on the road to recovery. Now there are new opportunities to show our volunteer spirit. Being a part of Balboa Park s Garden Party of the Century, May 8-10, or helping with the May 30 th build our rose garden for the San Diego County Fair would be a great way to serve our society. Upon completion of the fair rose garden build, docents are needed during open fair dates which will give us ample opportunities to meet the public and share our knowledge and love of roses. Some say that the rose is too much trouble but I observe that when I help out identifying varieties of roses for the Poway and Valley Center garden clubs no other bloom stops people in their tracks to smell and admire as does a well groomed rose. So, let s get out there and share our knowledge. What s Inside? President s Message.1 May Program 2 SDRS Rose Show.3 Wounded Warriors...5 SDFA Flower Show.5 Bob Martin for ARS VP...6 Featured Gardeners...7 Rose Care for May....8 Arrangement Workshop...8 Pilgrimage.9 Fair Rose Garden 10 Little Rose Show.11 Open Gardens Tour.12 Calendar and Web Sites..13 1

2 Hybridizer to Speak in May By Gary Bulman, Place and Time Our meeting is on Monday, May 18, 2015 in room 101 Casa del Prado in Balboa Park. We are pleased to have Chris Greenwood from the Pacific Rose Society to present a program on hybridizing. The program will begin at 7:30 p.m. May Potluck!!! Come and bring your best dish to share! This is always a fun event and a chance to sit and share a meal with new friends. Pot luck dinner is at 6:30 p.m. In addition to your plate and utensils, please bring a dish to share according to your last name as follows: A H Salad or side dish I Q Dessert R- Z Main dish About our Speaker Chris is an accredited American Rose Society Judge and Master Consulting Rosarian and resides with his wife, Leah, in Glendale, CA. He is retired from management of Armstrong Garden Centers. In addition, he is past president of The Pacific Rose Society and a respected rose exhibitor. Many of our members have benefited from the Pacific Rose Society Auction, hosted by Chris at the Los Angeles Arboretum, which has allowed them to find and purchase rare and difficult-to-find varieties of roses. He is also the editor of the Pacific Rose newsletter. Pre-meeting Rose Care Program with Questions and Answers At 7:00 p.m. John Lester, Consulting Rosarian, will be presenting a short program about growing roses successfully in the Consulting Rosarian Corner. His program will be followed by a question and answer period. This 30 minute period is designed to offer attendees a chance to have individual questions explored and solutions offered. This session has proven to be a very popular feature prior to the meeting. 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. Don t Forget to Bring Your Flowers to the Little Rose Show! By Elaine Ornelas, eornelas1949@att.net Boy...was our April rose show a success! Come a little early before the regular meeting to learn how to stage (prepare) your roses. We hope that all of you come and bring some of your beautiful rose blossoms! It is fun and is not intimidating. There will be expert exhibitors available to help you prepare your blooms. If you bring one or more rose blooms for exhibition, you will receive an additional raffle ticket. You are all exhibitors anyway as you cut your roses and display them in your living room. And who knows maybe some of you may become the next exhibitor of a Queen of the Show rose at a national show! (Copies of the rules of the Little Rose Show will be available at the meeting) 2

3 The San Diego Rose Society s 88th Annual Rose Show Winners Take All! By Elaine Ornelas, eornelas1949@att.net During the weekend of April 18-19, 2015, The McMillin Event Center at Liberty Station here in San Diego was transformed into a vast sea of color. Everywhere there were roses hybrid teas, floribundas, miniatures, old garden roses, arrangements, and every other type of rose imaginable. Exhibitors brought their best to display and also brought their hopes at winning the highest awards at the royal table. From left to right: Sue Streeper, Gary Bulman and Bob Martin. Behind the scenes there was an army of volunteers, led by Linda Clark, who worked diligently to ensure the best show of the year. Properties were placed, class labels were placed on the tables, cameras were readied, judges patiently waited in the wings, and at last, exhibitors emerged from their grooming stations with their entries. The entries were placed on the tables and the show began. After the meticulous judging of the entries, awards were given and some of the best of the best were placed on the royal table. How exciting it was to see the names of our friends and fellow members of the society appear on that table! Many thanks to our volunteer judges! Our gratitude to Bob Martin for compiling a listing of all the winners of the show and also to his lovely wife, Dona, for utilizing her wonderful camera skills to photograph each winner. An abbreviated listing of some of the winners is on the next page. (For a more complete listing please see the SDRS web site.) (Photos by Elaine Ornelas) 3 continued on page 4

4 (Rose Show, continued from page 3) Abbreviated Listing of Winners of the 2015 San Diego Rose Society Rose Show SECTION A - Hybrid Teas & Grandifloras Class 1 Queen of Show Jewel Grace Gary & Sonja Bulman King of Show Dina Gee Gary & Sonja Bulman Princess of Show Secret Lady Linda Clark Court of Honor Zach Nobles Linda Clark Court of Honor Sunstruck Gary & Sonja Bulman Court of Honor Let Freedom Ring Gary & Sonja Bulman Court of Honor Marlon's Day Gary & Sonja Bulman SECTION B - Floribundas and Polyanthas Class 10 Fl Spray Queen Passionate Kisses Linda Clark Fl Spray King Sparkle & Shine Linda Clark Fl Spray Princess English Miss Linda Clark Fl Spray Court Fabulous! Gary & Sonja Bulman Fl Spray Court Doris Day Linda Clark Fl Spray Court Day Breaker Sue Streeper Fl Spray Court Hot Cocoa Gary & Sonja Bulman SECTION C -Miniatures and Minifloras Class 15 Mini Queen Joy Gary & Sonja Bulman Mini King Heather Sproul Bill Wallace Mini Princess Magic Show John & Barbara Lester Mini Court Josh Alonso Carl & Bobbie Mahanay Mini Court Hot Tamale Linda Clark Mini Court Bee's Knees Carl & Bobbie Mahanay Mini Court Kristin Carl & Bobbie Mahanay Class 16 Miniflora Queen Dr. John Dickman Gary & Sonja Bulman Miniflora King First Choice Gary & Sonja Bulman Miniflora Princess Family Holiday Carl & Bobbie Mahanay Miniflora Court Butter Cream Carl & Bobbie Mahanay Miniflora Court Louisville Lady Gary & Sonja Bulman Miniflora Court Tammy Clemons John & Barbara Lester Miniflora Court Robin Alonso Linda Clark SECTION G - Miscellaneous Class 44 Most Fragrant Firefighter Bill Wallace HT, Gr or Fl Class 45 Most Fragrant Shrub Gertrude Jekyll Sue Streeper Legend of Pictures (descending from top) (All photos by Dona Martin) Queen of Show Jewel Grace by Gary Bulman, King of Show Dina Gee by Gary Bulman, Princess of Show Secret Lady by Linda Clark, Fl Spray Queen Passionate Kisses by Linda Clark, Mini Queen Joy by Gary Bulman, Miniflora Queen Dr. John Dickman by Gary Bulman, Most Fragrant HT, Gr or Fl Firefighter by Bill Wallace, Most Fragrant Shrub Gertrude Jekyll by Sue Streeper 4

5 Thank You from the Wounded Warriors Project By Elaine Ornelas, After our 2015 SDRS rose show, the flowers from the show were donated to become bouquets for the wounded warriors at Naval Medical Center. Sue Streeper and Bob Kolb received the following from David of the Wounded Warriors Project, as forwarded by Carolyn Fossett with pictures: Thank you so much for giving up your Sunday afternoon to come and help us with the rose bouquets. I hope you enjoyed their beauty and wonderful aroma. My car smelled just amazing transporting them to the Navy hospital, where they were received with a big smile and much appreciation. Know that you made 24 wounded warriors feel very special today...bless you all. David This is a great statement to the giving spirit of our SDRS members and exhibitors. Thank you to all who participated in this worthy project. San Diego Floral Association Our Park Our Treasure A Standard Flower Show By Gary Bulman - gossbulman@cox.net The location for this flower show is The Balboa Park Club in Balboa Park on May 8 th. Entries may be received between 10:00 and 12:00 a.m. Preparation may begin at 8:00 a.m. Properties belonging to the SDRS will be available. This is a show hosted by the San Diego Floral Association. Judging of the roses will be by SS and will take place between 1:00 and 3:00 p.m.. The rose theme is The Inez Grant Parker Memorial Garden. This show is part of the Garden Party of the Century. 5

6 Voting Coming Soon for Bob Martin as American Rose Society Vice-President! By Elaine Ornelas, As many of you already know, our own Bob Martin has been ardently campaigning for the position of ARS Vice-President. If elected, after serving for two terms in this position, he will become ARS President. We are all very proud of Bob for his effort and enthusiasm in striving to be elected but he needs our help. We need to vote for him! Below is information from him that will help ARS members with the voting. Voting Does Not Start Until June 1! The May/June issue of the American Rose magazine contains biographies and other information on the two vice presidential candidates, as well as instructions for electronic voting. The voting, however, will not commence online at the ARS website until June 1, Please note that the label on the magazine contains a unique six-digit voter identification number starting with "9" that you will need in order to vote in the election. A duplicate of your mailing label is also found at page 3 of the magazine. Therefore, in order to assure your ability to vote you need to save your mailing label until the voting starts! Associate Members Receive Separate Letter Associate members in households that receive only one A merican Rose magazine should have received a letter in the mail with an additional unique voter identification number. The accompanying letter also contains a duplicate of that mailing label. Please note that the accompanying letter neglects to mention that voting does not start until June 1, Important Details Please note the following important details to make sure your vote is counted: 1. Each member is required to use his or her own number in order to vote. 2. The online signature for voting is your typed name exactly as it appears on the mailing label. You must refer to your mailing label to see how your name is presented and use whatever is there exactly. 3. A confirmation will be sent for all online voters. If you do not get your confirmation, please do not try to vote a second time because voting a second time with the same number will disqualify both votes! 4. If your confirmation does not show up, check your spam folder to see if it went there. If you do not get it or cannot find it, contact me and I will make inquiries to find out why you have not received a confirmation.. Thanks again for your support. Please understand that I had nothing to do with the voting procedures, which I view as member-unfriendly and in need of change. Instead, I will send to you a further announcement when the voting begins on June 1, 2015 so you will have everything you need for your vote to be counted. Sincerely, Bob 6

7 Featured Gardeners of the Month: Mike and Linda Pellegrino By Bill and Elaine Ornelas, Mike and Linda Pellegrino were selected to be our featured gardeners of the month for the May issue of Rose Ramblings. As editor, I am attempting to highlight a wide variety of gardeners so that our readers can learn about them as people as well as their successes, and challenges in growing roses. Bill and I met with the Pellegrinos on May 1st this year at their beautiful home in El Cajon. Many of you probably came by their home on April 26th since they were on the circuit of the Open Gardens tour, and fell in love with their tropical paradise. They are not only rose gardeners but also growers of many different types of plants, and also koi fish! As background, Linda is originally from San Diego but Mike hails from New York and Washington, D.C. until Mike also worked in the construction trade for about eight years. They have no children, but their professions keep them quite busy. Linda is a technical writer, her position formally titled ISD Instructional System Designer. Mike is an IT project manager for SDGE. They both love to travel, mostly to Hawaii. The big island of Hawaii is their favorite but they love all of the other islands as well. They recently went on a cruise to the Caribbean and are planning another one in 2016 to Panama and Aruba. Visitors to their tropical backyard can see where that influence comes from! In their backyard, they have constructed a very large koi pond and it is filled with a variety of sizes and colors of the beautiful fish. I placed my finger in the water at the edge of the pond and one of the largest koi swam over and began testing my finger to see if it was food! They had to build the pond very deep so that the local egrets would not harvest the koi for their dinner. In their previous house they started with about fifteen roses, including two Double Delight bushes. But like many of us the rose passion grew. They now have over 70 roses in their current house at various locations in the front and back yard. They have found Gemini and Julia Child to be fairly disease-resistant, but Mike s favorite is Hot Cocoa and Linda s is Gemini. They do get some rust late in the season and a few aphids. They have had a real challenge this year with powdery mildew. The roses are fertilized every other week using a Magnum Grow fertilizer, fish emulsion, seaweed extract solution that many of our SDRS rose growers routinely use. The soil is primarily decomposed granite which is very dense and hard to work with. Because of this they brought in amended topsoil and moved it by hand. They brought in thirteen tons of rock to construct gardening walls and the beautiful waterfall above their koi pond. The roses have drip irrigation which helps them balance our current water restrictions with the needs of the roses. They recycle their koi fish pond back-wash water into the plants and roses located in the backyard upper bank area. Their garden is a combination of tropical plants, trees, roses and other favorite blooming plants such as plumerias and dahlias. The temperature in their area ranges from the 30s in winter to above 100 degrees in summer. But most all of their plants are thriving in the tropical oasis! We had a wonderful visit with the Pellegrinos who graciously welcomed us into their home and yard, sharing their lives and passion for roses and other plants. Many thanks to them for their hospitality! 7

8 Rose Care for May By Gary Bulman, WATER CLAMP TIGHTENS was the headline in today s Union Tribune. Water reductions will have to be made from 13% to 36% depending on what water agency you are a part of. For me it is 20% and I believe that it will be doable providing they compare this year s use with what my use was in 2013 or Because of this, using every drop of water allocated and getting it to the plant is essential. We may have to reduce rose watering to twice a week. The weather pattern makes it very difficult to maintain a regular water routine as one week temperatures are in the 70s and the next they soar into the 90s. My second bloom cycle is beginning with most blooms gone by dead-heading and new growth starting. Weather permitting new blooms should start to appear in around 45 days. To stimulate this fertilizer is being mixed with a combination of Magnum Grow, along with alfalfa tea fortified with epsom salts, fish emulsion, bio-start and a little Jump Start mixed in a 55 gallon drum and distributed 1 gallon to a bush. I don t mix up a lot of any one thing but a little of each making sure that each bush gets what it likes. Continue to spray a fungicide for mildew control, remembering that prevention is the plan and add a little Spinosad for insect control if damage is present. A big part of getting ready for the second or third bloom cycle is to clean out the center of the bush, removing short stems that produced no strong canes or blooms. This will allow air to circulate through the bush reducing the chance for mildew. Arrangement Workshop By Diana Kilmer, originalsbydiana42@verizon.net On June 20 th, 2015, members of the San Diego Rose Society will have the opportunity to learn how to do a traditional arrangement in the morning and then after lunch learn how to make a modern arrangement. The hours are from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm. The workshop is being given by Diana Kilmer who happens to be a top arranger and also an arrangement judge for ARS. If you went to the 2014 national convention that SDRS sponsored you would have seen Diana s winning arrangements. This workshop will cost $30.00 per person and you will go home with two beautiful arrangements along with paperwork showing you how to make other types of arrangements that can be entered into an ARS rose show. You will also have a beautiful lunch at Robin Breeding s garden, 9123 Rebecca Ave., San Diego, CA You will need to bring your clippers, paper towels, and a small container to soak your oasis in. If you have a tall container that is black or dark green that you want to use instead of the plastic type that I will supply, you are more than welcome to do so, but please let me know in advance. I will supply the roses and oasis and greenery that you will all be using for your lovely arrangements. If you have any questions about this workshop please call me at or send me an at: originalsbydiana42@verizon.net There will be space for only 15 people, so please sign up early. Make your check out to San Diego Rose Society and send it to Robin Breeding, 9123 Rebecca Ave., San Diego, CA (Photos by Diana Kilmer) 8

9 Rose Pilgrimage 2015 By Sue Streeper, Fifty-two rose pilgrims departed from Old Town early on May 3 and embarked on a journey to six gardens in Orange and San Diego counties. The garden of Phil and Deanna Flintzer in Laguna Hills was a fabulous treat with 400-plus roses growing high overhead. This garden was a testament to a great program of nurturing their roses. The next stop at Tom and Miriam Cooney s showed off a beautiful array of exhibition roses. This garden Cooney garden. Tom Cooney seen in top picture on left demonstrated excellent use of terraces to showcase over 300 roses, many in large pots. Rose Hills in Whittier showed off masses of roses in full bloom. Preference, Oh My!, Betty Boop, and California Dreamin were mentioned as standouts. At the Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, many of our group enjoyed visiting the home where Nixon was raised. The roses, alas, were in poor condition, apparently for lack of water quite a contrast from the previous locations. hosted the group at their large garden in Escondi- display of all kinds of roses, many of which were had the opportunity to get acquainted with Bob, the American Rose Society. Bob and Dona Martin do. Visitors enjoyed the vast unusual varieties. They also candidate for vice president of Martin roses with pictures (from topright clockwise) of Lady of the Dawn, Lavaglut, and Heavenly Pink Flintzer garden showing Kew Gardens and Jump for Joy A fitting culmination to the day was presented at the garden of Paula Taylor and Bernie Kulchin. Their small garden showed off not only well-grown roses but a huge variety of unusual plants and art pieces. Many thanks to all those who shared their lovely gardens, to the participants who apparently had a fine day, and to Ruth Tiffany and Linda Clark who shared in planning and carrying out this pilgrimage. Now we look forward to another amazing odyssey in 2016; where should we go? (Photographs courtesy of Ruth Tiffany, Christine Allan and Rita Perwich). Garden of Paula Taylor and Bernie Kulchin. Pictured at right are Miriam Yoder, Gary Bulman and Richard Burk 9

10 2015 Del Mar Fair Rose Garden A Rainbow in the Park By Elaine Ornelas, eornelas1949@att.net On August 13, 2013, Bill and I received a call from Sue Streeper. She and her husband, Dick, had been the coordinators of the build of the Del Mar Fair Rose Gardens for several years. She told us that she was looking for someone that would take over the task of receiving, potting, feeding and watering roses that were being donated by Weeks Roses for the 2015 Del Mar Fair Rose Garden. Her request of us was also to be the coordinators of the actual build and maintenance of the garden once the fair started in June Were we interested? she asked. Sure we said! And so began our journey with 60 new roses on our property, our new best friends! These were in addition to the 60 roses of our own. How hard could it be? The roses were delivered January 2, As we opened the large delivery boxes that day, we smiled as we saw our very naked bare-root roses, Suddently we were in awe of the task we had committed ourselves to. But we were also very hopeful that the roses would bloom and make us, and the SDRS members, proud once they stood in the fair garden. By January 6, the roses were planted, with the help of our children, in pots with Queen of the Show potting soil, and by February 6 the roses had leafed out and some were forming buds ready to bloom. It was exciting and we were on our way! And so for the next year and a half the roses grew and bloomed. During that time we nourished them with our standard fertilizing schedule which we used for all of our roses, one that many of the SDRS members use as well. The rainy days were few so we watered anywhere from 2-4 times a week. While the roses were doing well, we also had the task of coordinating the construction of the garden with the fair staff. Fortunately we had a champion at the fair, Cindy Benoit, who was a great help, since we were novices at this. We have worked with her during this last year with the design and placement of the garden. The design is meant to represent, artistically-speaking, the gazebo in the Inez Grant Parker Memorial Rose Garden in Balboa Park, since the Balboa Park centennial is the focus for the fair this year. So we submitted our rather primitive drawing of what the rose garden would look like in our effort to mimic the gazebo at the park. The fair garden will be round with a 27 diameter and layers of four blocks on the outer circle tapering to three on the inside with a five foot wide opening for entrance into the garden. There will be a interior area six feet wide for the planting of the roses. There will be tall pillars joined at the top built by the fair staff. The fair cannot supply the top covering of the gazebo due to cost so we will be supplying a large, colorful blue umbrella for the top. There will be a table and chairs supplied by the fair which will serve as the sitting area for the docents. 10 continued on page 11

11 (Fair Rose Garden, continued from page 10) We also had to coordinate the volunteers which would assist with the transportation of the roses to the fair and placement of them in the garden. And, needed were the docents which would man the garden to answer questions and sign up new members for the San Diego Rose Society. Thank goodness for Lana Heck, who volunteered to take on the task of gathering volunteers to take these positions! Volunteers have also been secured to serve as groomers of the garden, periodically coming to deadhead and pull old leaves. So on May 30, 2015 we will be ready to place the roses in the bed at the fair. Many volunteers have stepped up to help with that task. Fortunately, this year, the fair staff will not only build the walls to the garden but will supply all of the compost to fill the bed. No need to bring the truckloads of soil from the Miramar dump! And...the Master Gardeners have nicely agreed to do all the watering of the roses! These two tasks will be a great help to those of us managing the fair garden. Bill and I will be sending out a detailed schedule of events soon to all of those who have volunteered to help us with the construction and being a docent. We cannot thank everyone enough for all of your support for this project. It is a testament to the spirit of volunteerism that is present in our wonderful society! SDRS Del Mar Fair Rose Garden Roses From top left to bottom right: Diamond Eyes, Oh My!, Coretta Scott King, Good as Gold, Jump for Joy, Family Holiday, Happy Go Lucky (Photos by Elaine Ornelas) Winners of the SDRS Little Rose Show of 4/21/15 1st Shown By Section 1 - One Hybrid tea or grandiflora bloom or spray w/o sidebuds Sunstruck Marty & Bob Kolb Section 2 - One floribunda spray Topsy Turvy Marty & Bob Kolb Section 3 - One miniature or miniflora bloom without sidebuds Irresistible Marty & Bob Kolb Section 4 - One miniature or miniflora spray Cupcake Jim Price Section 5 - NOVICE ONLY - One hybrid tea or grandiflora bloom w/o sidebuds Fragrant Plum Christy Wilson Section 6 NOVICE ONLY - One miniature or miniflora bloom without sidebuds Jean Kenneally Nancy Turecek Section 7 One bloom or spray, any other type Wild Thing Jack Edmondson Rose of the Night Sunstruck Marty & Bob Kolb Runion Arrangement Robin Breeding 11

12 Open Gardens Tour By Elaine Ornelas, Sunday, April 26th, was a great day for gardens! Ruth Tiffany, Sue Streeper, Linda Clark, and Mike and Linda Pellegrino graciously opened their gardens to members as part of our annual Open Garden Tour. Their gardens were in prime condition, thanks to the hard work that each of these folks put in to highlight their roses as well as other plants and garden features. Ruth s garden was our first stop and what a reward! Ruth has around 700 rose bushes scattered in her backyard, side yard, front yard and even in her parkway. Actually Ruth says that she stopping counting them some time ago acknowledging that if she obtains another rose, another rose has to go. Her garden is a kaleidoscope of color which also features garden art, banners and birdbaths. And she loves monarch butterflies...watching them go through their cycles on her Asclepias plants. Next on our tour was Sue Streeper s home. Sadly we missed the presence of her husband Dick since his passing. But Sue is able to do all the needed task by herself now to maintain a beautiful garden, full of climbers, hybrid teas, floribundas, miniatures and just about every other type of rose. We had given Dick some seeds of cobalt blue larkspur and they continue to bloom in their perennial garden. On to the Pellegrinos garden in El Cajon. This garden is unique to our rose society in that it features a tropical theme complete with a large koi pond, palm trees, plumeria as well as many roses. (Note: the Pellegrinos are featured in this issue of Rose Ramblings as part of our Featured Gardener of the Month column. Check there for pictures.) Last on our tour was the garden of Linda Clark. In our professional life, Bill and I worked in hospital clinical laboratories, performing lab tests. When performing certain microscopic cell counts, there was a term TNTC used, which stand for Too Numerous to Count. How often we think of this term when walking through Linda s rose garden! Linda also hosted a wonderful supper for those who worked so hard to put together a successful rose show. Many thanks to Linda for this kind gesture, when in fact our thanks for chairing the show goes to her! All in all it was a great tour full of beautiful gardens in bloom, with lots of information exchanged and chances to get to know the hosts better. Thanks to Ruth, Sue, Linda and the Pellegrinos for a wonderful tour! (Photos by Elaine Ornelas) 12

13 Event Calendars and Web Sites SDRS Calendar of Events May 18 Monthly meeting and potluck with Little Rose Show May 30 Construction of Del Mar Fair Rose Garden June 15 Monthly meeting with Little Rose Show July 20 Arrangement workshop September 21 Monthly meeting with Little Rose Show October 19 Monthly meeting with Little Rose Show November 16 Monthly meeting Local/Regional Events May 8 San Diego Floral Assn. Flower Show May 8-10 Balboa Park Garden Party of the Century May 9-10 Orange County Rose Society Rose Show May 9 South Coast Rose Society Rose Show May Andersen Poway Nursery Rose Show May Horticultural Judging School, Tucson, AZ June 5-July 5 Del Mar Fair Flower Show July 18 Consulting Rosarian School (hosted by Pacific Rose Society) Nov, 2015 Pacific Southwest District Convention National Calendar of Events June ARS National Spring Convention and 2015 Miniature/Miniflora Conference, Columbus OH Sept ARS Fall Convention & Rose Show, Syracuse, NY Useful Websites and Links San Diego Rose Society (sdrosesociety.org) American Rose Society (rose.org) American Rose Society Pacific Southwest District (pswdroses.org) Help Me Find (Roses) (helpmefind.com/rose) Registration for Del Mar Fair Flower Show (sdfair.com/entry) 13

14 Rose Ramblings Newsletter of the San Diego Rose Society Editor: Elaine Ornelas, Assistant Editor: Sue Streeper, Distribution: Bob Kolb, and Linda Hitney, Webmaster: Daniel Craun, San Diego Rose Society P.O. Box San Diego CA