NASHVILLE ROSE LEAFOfficial Publication of The Nashville Rose Society

Serving Rose Enthusiasts Throughout Middle Tennessee

NRS Meeting at Cheekwood October 1st6:30 PM - Refreshments 7:00 PM - ProgramNashville Rose Show October 12th - 13th

OCTOBER 2013 Volume 46, Issue 9 Affiliated with the American Rose Society - www.ars.org

2014 Nashville Rose Show at CheekwoodOctober 12th & 13th

Share the Beauty of Rosesby Sandie Zazzara,

Witherspoon Rose Culture

Each year when we organize our cata-log we become thrilled and energized for the new growing season to ar-rive. The enthusiasm begins when we choose the new roses to offer as we prepare that catalog for publication. At Witherspoon Rose Culture, we take pleasure in enhancing the lives of oth-ers with roses. And as we reflect on this mission, we realize that sharing them with others is the perfect way to let our friends and loved ones know that we care. Sharing our roses has be-come the all embracing theme of our 2014 catalog. Without further ado, we are pleased to share with you the ar-rival of these exciting new roses to the marketplace.

From Weeks Roses we’d like to tell you about a few new introductions. ‘Good as Gold™’ will astonish those who love bright color. With in-your-face shades of orangey-yellow, it will make a bold statement in the garden. It is tall and upright with a bushy habit giving you long stems for cutting. Its sweet cit-rusy fragrance will surely delight.

F W k R ’d lik t t ll

After being held at Belmont Univer-sity last year the NRS fall rose show is back at Cheekwood Botanic Garden and Arts ????? this year at the familiar venue of Massey Hall. The rose is ope to the public on Saturday, October 12, 2013 from 1:00 p.m. till 4:30 p.m. and Sunday, October 13, 2013 from 11 a.m. till 4:30 p.m.

Rose shows are for EVERYONE!

Whether you are exhibiting or not there is something for you. There will be an excellent seminar on the “Basics of Growing Roses” at 1:30 p.m. Sun-day, October 13 Potter Room.

If you have a rose bring it! There are novice (beginner) classes to enter and there will be someone there to help you get your rose entered.

Rose shows don’t just happen all by themselves so we want to thanks the 2013 Rose Show Committee. There is always a need for extra helping hands so please feel free to offer your sup-port to any one of the following rose show committee members:

Show Chairmen: Sam and Nancy Jones

Arrangements: Connie Baird, Sara Jo Gill

Bloom Sale: Margaret Devine

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‘Good as Gold’

‘Melodee Parfumee”

‘Happy Go Lucky’

‘Munstead Wood’

squalling kid

• Or the hotel alarm clock that reads 4:00 AM when my body’s time clock wakes me up on the west coast

You get the picture.

On a recent trip to San Jose, California I was able to visit two rose gardens. The first garden was the San Jose Heritage Rose Garden, dedicated to the study and appreciation of old and endangered roses. This made me wonder if there should be a garden dedicated to old and endangered rosarians? Anyway, this garden has the most diverse collection of roses I have ever seen! Bourbons, Chinas, Noisettes, Polyanthas, Rugo-sas and on an on. Over 4,500 roses and even more incredible over 3,500 variet-ies! The only detraction was the con-stant roar of jets taking off overhead as the garden is less than a mile from the south end of the San Jose Airport’s run-way. Only fitting, as this trip was for an aviation conference.

Within a 5 minute drive was another rose garden. Although it isn’t fair to re-fer to it as just “another” rose garden, because the San Jose Municipal Rose Garden was voted as “America’s Best Rose Garden” in 2010, by the All-Amer-ica Rose Selection. By comparison this garden has only 250 varieties so how does it get voted as “America’s Best Rose Garden”? Easy, the roses that make up the 250 varieties are planted en masse with 3,500 roses strong!

President’s Column

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Editor’s Desk

(Cont’d on page 3)

Hello fellow rose society members,

Fall is upon us. The rains have con-tinued and the weather, for the most part, seems to be cooler than usual. We have a few big events upcoming. The 2013 Tenarky Rose and Arrange-ment Show will be held at the Fern Valley Inn and Convention Center in Louisville, KY. The dates are October 4-6. See page 4 for more details. Also, on a closer to home event, is our own Nashville Rose Society Annual Rose Show. It will be held at Cheekwood this year. The dates are October 12-13, a Saturday and Sunday. However, anyone who can make the time to help setup on Friday is welcome. More hands make for less work. We will dis-cuss the times at our meeting on the first of October.

I would like to thank our guest speaker, Terry West from Southern Nurseries, for his kindness and gener-osity. Terry described the various soil products or planting mediums that he manufactures. He also donated 20 bags of said products as door prizes. Our own Ron Daniels is a spokesper-son for the Holy Cow product line that they produce.

I had the honor of speaking at the Town and Country Garden Club in Belle Meade last Monday. Their gar-den club is approximately 75 years old and they meet on Abbot Martin Road. I was invited by a client of my com-pany’s, Ms. Thompson. She ordered a delicious luncheon and it was eas-ily the best lunch that I have had on a work day. Speaking in front of a group of ladies that have been gardening their entire lives can be daunting. So, instead of repeating the basics of rose care and cultivation, I concentrated on the most fragrant roses of the past and the newest entries into that cat-egory, as listed in the American Rose Society Magazine.

Since gardening is my livelihood, I also spoke about the care of boxwood and the pitfalls that might occur. A discussion of boxwood blight piqued everyone’s interest as many of the

members have formal rose beds sur-rounded by boxwood hedges. We also discussed native plants as suitable substitutes for foreigners that would attract and/or provide habitat for in-sects that eat those that are problem-atic to our gardens and roses.

Our speaker or itinerary for our next meeting is not yet set. I have two likely prospects who are currently checking their schedules. Everyone seems to be busy at this time of the year. If push comes to shove, be prepared to ask and offer answers to questions related to our next rose show. Arrangement entries are at an all-time high. There is a vast amount of information on that one category alone. Sam and Nancy will be in China, so they will be absent on the first. Sam would like all to know that he can receive text messages, but no phone calls or e-mail while in Chi-na.

I am looking forward to seeing all of you. My term as president will end this December. Two years have flown by. It has been my pleasure to act as your president and I thank you all for the opportunity. It has been a wonderful experience for me. See you on the first.

- Tom Beath

For those of you, who haven’t had the op-portunity to listen to Starla gripe about my persistent travel, let it be known that her griping is as frequent as my travel. One of the ways I make the best of the rigors of traveling across country is by looking for rose gardens to visit.

Because Starla doesn’t get to travel with me, I will often send her pretty pictures of roses from my camera phone. Some-times this has led Starla to believe these trips are all sunshine and roses. This is because I do not send her pictures of:

• The long lines at the security checkpoint

• Delayed and or canceled flights

• Cramped seating next to a

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Grand Prix II

In the Horticulture Division, Lanni Webb won the most points as Ad-vanced Exhibitor. Gene Meyer earned the most points as an Intermediate Ex-hibitor and Wayne Metcalf earned the most points as a Novice Exhibitor.

In Section 1: Hybrid Tea Rose Speci-men, Sam Jones won Queen of Show with Moonstone; Lanni Webb won King of Show with St. Patrick and Rita Webb won Princess of Show with Pope John Paul II.

In Section 2: Non Hybrid Tea Rose Specimen and Sprays, Gene Meyer won Best of Section with Souv de la Malmaison.

In Section 3: Miniature Rose Speci-men, Gene Meyer won Queen of Show with Foolish Pleasure and King of

Make your plans now to leave the winter behind and sail away to the sunny Caribbean with ARS! The Epic, one of Norwegians new MEGA ships, sails out of Miami for 7 nights. The 155,873 ton ship carries 4,100 guests. This ship was launched in 2010, with all the latest innovations and enter-tainment. The Epic has so much to offer, it can be the destination itself!

ARS will receive one free passenger fare for every 8 cabins booked. The first free fare will go to the Local Society who books the most members on the cruise. In addition the local societies will receive $25 for each cabin booked.

Inside cabin $772.96/ per person based on 2 people per cabin, Balcony cabin $1102.96/ per person based on 2 people per cabin. No Outside cabins. Single occupancy Inside Cabin - $1163.95

The Epic - Norwegian Cruise Lines - sailing 02/02/2014 out of Miami

Make your plans now to leave the winter behind and sail away to the sunny

Because we both love roses I shared what I was seeing with the woman I love. Text after text with pictures from my iPhone was my way of showing her how much I missed her and wished she was with me. Usually when I send her photos of rose gardens from far away her replies are filled with oohs and ahs. However, this time there was no re-sponse, so I send more pictures with little love notes added. Still no reply. I thought to myself, bless her lil’ black spot pickin’ heart, she is outside tend-ing to our roses that I haven’t had time to spray due to all the travel.

Secretly I was relieved, thinking all the black spot pickin’ would be done before I returned home which in my mind, ex-plained why she didn’t respond to any of my text messages. By now the sun had set in San Jose which meant it was even darker at home - little did I know how dark. I still hadn’t heard from her. Had pickin’ all the black spot put her in a black mood? I finally called her to see why there was no reply to all the pretty rose pictures I shared. When she answered the phone I realized she was suffering from something else I had shared before I left. A bad head cold she played nurse maid to before I left her home alone to fend for herself.

So now you know why I will be all alone in the garden with my black spot pick-in’ fingers this weekend AND why I am writing the editor’s column myself this month.

-Jim & Starla Harding

Show with Bees Knees.

In Section 4: Miniature Sprays, Jim and Starla Harding won Best in Section with Louisville Lady.

In Section 5: Rose in a Bowl, Wayne Metcalf won Best in Section with Cre-scendo.

In Section 6: Jim and Starla Harding won the Most Fragrant Rose Challenge with Fragrant Cloud.

In the Arrangements Division, Jim and Starla Harding won the Best Large Rose Arrangement using Candelabra roses and the Best Miniature Rose Ar-rangement using Starla roses.

Thanks to Dianne and Dillard Lester for helping by staying on this year and Connie Baird for Judging.

Turn to the back cover for photos and highlights of the Grand Prix II.

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Editor’s Desk

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2013 Fall Nashville Rose Show (cont’d)

Hello Rose Lovers!

I invite you to Louisville for the 2013 Tenarky Convention and Rose and Arrangement Show on October 4-6. The Louisville Rose Society is excited about hosting this year and we hope you will join us. The convention will be held at the Fern Valley Inn and Convention Center, same as the last time we hosted. We are lucky to get the room rate of $71 a night and are trying to keep all of the costs low to encourage you to come.

We have all the details posted on

the Tenarky website with a registra-tion form and show schedule. We will have an informal welcome recep-tion on Friday evening beginning at 5pm, near the rose prep area, which is the coolest room in the building. Bring your sweater and get your roses stored from 7:00 - 9:00 pm.

The rose prep area will open again at 6:00 am Saturday and entries will close at 10:00 am. After judging, the show will be open to the public from 1:00 - 5:00 pm. We’ll have vendors and a silent auction nearby the exhib-it area, and programs throughout the day, followed by the awards banquet.

On Sunday Carolyn and Charles Phelps are hosting a rose garden so-cial. The annual St. James Art Fair is that weekend, and worth checking out in Old Louisville. To learn more about that go to www.stjamescour-tartshow.com.

So, get your roses ready! We’ll see you in Louisville!

Janet Miller

President, Louisville Rose Society

Clerks/ Records: Denise Thorne, Mar-ty Reich

Donations: Lori Emery

Finance: Gary Spencer

Hospitality: Ann and Charles Lott

Judges: Sam Jones

Judge’s Luncheon: Nancy Jones

Placement: Dick Sittel, Tom Beath

Publicity: Don Reed

Schedule/Program: Anne Owen, Dil-lard and Dianne Lester

Seminar: Marty Reich

Staging: Ron Daniels, Gary Spencer

Royal Court Tally: Larry Baird, Tom Beath

Trophies/Awards: Cindy Worch, Hayes Gibson

Welcome: Keith Garman

Water Monitors: Lee and Martha Jef-frey

The Nashville Rose Society greatly appreciates our 2013 panel of judges who will be traveling from Alabama, Kentucky, Georgia and Florida all be-cause they love roses.

A copy of the complete rose show schedule is available at www.tenarky.org and www.nashvillerosesociety.com

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Come Before Winter – Sunday’s In The South Posted on September 22, 2013 by Chris VanCleave; a.k.a. Redneck Rosarian

Every year about this time my mind begins to reflect on the season that has passed; the hard work, the early hours in the garden and the tremen-dous joy that my garden brings to me. I also begin to reflect on what needs to be done to prepare for the next season in the garden, before the chill of winter takes hold in my Alabama garden.

Here are a few tips for fall cleanup and spruce up:

The summer has likely taken a toll on some of your plants and the au-tumn winds will make their way into your garden, leaving leaves, twigs or other garden debris in your planting beds. Now is a good time to clean them out. Leaves will often become moldy during the mild win-ter months and can be a problem for you in the spring.

Reapply mulch. By now some of your spring mulch has broken down and needs to be reapplied. Mulch in your garden beds keeps down weeds and helps with moisture retention at the roots of your plants.

Remove annuals and replace with fall chrysanthemums. Vibrant yel-lows, golds and purple hues wel-come fall like no other flower in the garden. Once the blooms are spent, we always plant ours in the back garden. Just snip off the spent booms and plant, and you’ll enjoy them again next year. Here in Shel-by County, local garden shops and roadside stands have a great selec-tion.

It’s a great time to divide lilies and irises for blooms next spring. Why not share some with a neighbor?

Clean your gardening tools. Remov-ing dirt and grime will help extend the life of your gardening tools. Pruners and cutters need to be oiled to keep rust at bay.

I am reminded at this time of year of a passage of scripture from the Bible, 2 Timothy 4:21 “Make every effort to come before winter.” This passage is a re-minder to me to set things right in my garden and in my life before winter comes. Paul is writing to Timothy to ask him to come. He had left Timothy in charge of the church at Ephesus. An aged Paul who was a prisoner in Rome, loved his friend and had a desire to see him one last time.

The final conversation I had with my grandmother was in the late summer of 1987. We stood in the Nashville airport and she cried as she held me tight and told me she would never see me again. I brushed it off and said, “I’ll see you at Christ-mas.” She just smiled and held my face and stared into my eyes as if looking deep inside my soul. Little did I know it would indeed be the last time I stared into her beautiful caring eyes and touch the hands of a woman I truly loved. She passed away two days before Thanksgiving and a few hours before my arrival at her bedside. Time is fleeting. I was reminded that day, and a thou-sand times since, to make the most of the time you have on this earth.

As grandma used to say, “this ain’t no dress rehearsal.” Are there rela-tionships in your life that need to be mended? Loose ends left untied? Are there words unspoken that now need to be said?

Just as our gardens get messy, so do our lives. I urge you to take a few moments this fall and reflect upon not only your garden, but your life and set these things in order that have gone awry with the people around you. You’ll be a better per-son and will recapture for yourself and them a renewed sense of energy. And hopefully, by the grace of God, you’ll be at peace come winter…

Rose Chat Radio

Rose Chat Radio can now be accessed via iTunes & Stitcher apps for mobile devices according to Chris VanCleave, creator and host of the chat radio pod-cast. The show can be heard on Blog Talk Radio. Upcoming programs in-clude:

10/2 – Michael Marriott – David Aus-tin – New Roses for 2014

10/9 – Nashville Rose Society member Ron Daniels – Fall Rose Care

Recent shows include:

9/4 – Steve Hutton – CEO of Star Ros-es

9/11 – Roses of Remembrance

9/18 – Allen Owings, LSU Agriculture – Easy Tea Hybrid Teas

9/25 – Nashville Rose Society member Robbie Tucker – Rosemania – Spray-ing & Safety

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Beware the NeighborsGene Meyer, Consulting Rosarian

Consultar the Rosarian has a con-fession to make this month. It was hot outside and he decided to take it easy. He did find one place he couldn’t ignore. The Brentwood Public Library was a disaster. The Knock Outs looked fine this spring. Now it is mid August and all the ros-es are infected. So I broke the news to them and they said they would do something about it.

Now you’re probably wondering about the title of this article, Beware the Neighbors. Since I was staying home during the heat and nursing my own roses, I had plenty of time to reflect about my nemesis Rogue Rosette.

Oh, by the way, I lost two bushes this month. That’s a total of twen-ty if you are keeping count. So I’ve been thinking. I’m supposed to

know better. How could I have let it get so bad in my own garden? One thing I did was to ignore my neighbor’s roses. After all they were Knock Outs so who cares, Right? Wrong! I believe their bushes had been infected for over a year. Rogue Rosette was on two sides of me and I was an ostrich.

If you have a rose garden you cannot ignore what is going on around you. At the very least you need to know if there are roses being grown two doors down all around you, front, back, side to side. They had it and I got it. You need to get right up in their yard and look at their roses. If they say anything, just say you are admiring their roses and wanted to get a closer look at their lovely ros-es.

Believe me you can’t see it from the

The charming, old-fashioned yellow blooms of ‘Happy Go Lucky™‘ will be a lively addition to any rose garden. This prolific blooming grandiflora won’t let you down in bloom production and will have you sharing arm loads of flowers with your friends. With disease resis-tance and a moderately fruity fragrance, it’s a winner.

How about a new floribunda for the gar-den? A bouquet from ‘Jump for Joy™‘ will enchant and delight. Long lasting clusters of ruffled peachy-pink blos-soms on glossy green leaves are the characteristics of this new rose. Share this rose with your loved ones and they’ll be jumping for joy.

Sweeten up your life with a disease re-sistant mini. ‘Sweet Sunblaze®‘ is a darling double clear pink from the Sun-blaze family of roses from Star. With a slight spicy fragrance and vigorous

street, especially the first stages of it. I can now spot stage 3 from the street but I have now had a lot of practice. It is extremely hard to see from a moving car. So get to know your neighbors and get in their yards. It’s for your own good. Who knows, you might make a friend.

Another thing I did was to see if a cane-ectomy would work to save a bush. That’s where you cut an infect-ed cane all the way to the ground. So far that has worked only 10% of the time. I would do a cane-ectomy and then wait for the Rogue Rosette to show up again before I would re-move the bush. So I had infected bushes in my yard for a month or more while I waited for it to show again. And as I said, it almost al-ways did.

growth everything will be nice in the rose garden with a little sugar and spice.

If you love David Austin English roses we have two new ones to offer. The strong old rose fragrance with fruity notes of ‘Munstead Wood’ starts out light crimson in bud form, but then opens to reveal a deep velvety crimson in the center. It has an excellent repeat and disease resistance to boot.

Robust, hardy, and resistant to disease are just a few of the great traits of ‘Lady of Shalott’. This lady also boasts a lovely pleasing warm tea fragrance with hints of spiced apple and clove. Orange-red buds open to reveal a stunning old fash-ioned chalice bloom with a salmon pink center and a golden reverse.

Back by popular demand are ‘Melody Parfumée™‘ and ‘Radiant Perfume’. These two highly fragrant roses, both

grandifloras, will offer you many chanc-es for sharing a bounty of blooms with those closest to you. ‘Melody Parfu-mée™’ starts as deep plum colored buds which unfurl to rich purple blooms that finally soften to lavender. ‘Radiant Per-fume’s long stems are great for cutting and the rich green foliage creates a per-fect backdrop for the deep golden yel-low blooms.

We hope you are eagerly anticipating the new growing season as much as we are. Sharing your roses will never be easier when there are so many great choices for your rose garden. We en-courage all of you to brighten someone’s day by sharing the beauty which grows in your garden.

Reprinted from the Charlotte Rosebud, September/October 2013 Issue, Doug L’Hommedieu, Editor; Doug Whitt, Co-ditor.

Share the Beauty of Roses(Cont’d from page1)

Contributions Nashville Rose Society is a 501c-3

organization and all contributions to the society are tax-deductible. Contri-butions may be made as memorials or to honor some person, group or occa-sion. Checks for contributions should

be made payable to Nashville Rose Society and mailed to:MILLIE DOLINGER59 Vaughn’s Gap Rd.Nashville, TN 37205

(615)352-3927millieg713@yahoo.com

Disclaimer: While the advice and information in this newsletter is believed to be true and accurate at the time of publi-cation, neither the authors nor the editor(s) accept any legal responsibility for any errors or omissions that may have been made.

The Nashville Rose Society makes no warranty, expressed or implied with respect to the material contained herein.

Nashville Rose Society Membership

We are a non-profit organization serving the middle Tennessee area to educate persons on growing and exhibiting roses. Membership is open to everyone who supports the objec-tives of the organization. Annual dues of $20.00 per household include a sub-scription to The Nashville Rose Leaf, the official newsletter of the society. To join, send a check payable to Nashville Rose Society to:

Marty Reich, 5020 Dovecote Dr., Nashville, TN 37220-1614

Phone: (615) 833-0791; E-mail: marty615@bellsouth.net

Nashville Rose LeafThe Nashville Rose Leaf is published

eleven times annually by the Nashville Rose Society, Nashville, TN

Editors: Jim & Starla Harding, Sam Jones & Leann Barron

Editorial Advisory Committee: Marty Reich

ARS Consulting Rosarians

South NashvilleLeann Barron (615) 269-0240Marty Reich* (615) 833-0791

West NashvilleTom Beath (615) 481.3589Keith Garman (615) 352-6219Sam* & Nancy Jones (615) 646-4138

Brentwood AreaCecil* & Bessie Ward (615)373-2245Gene Meyer (615) 373-0303

Franklin AreaAnne Owen* (615) 794-0138Logan* & Joan Shillinglaw(615) 790-7346Robbie*&Marsha Tucker(615) 595-9187

Hendersonville AreaRon Daniels (615) 330-7083Jack Wedekind (615) 824-8696

Murfreesboro AreaDillard & Diane Lester(615) 896-0203

Columbia AreaLyle Worsham* (931) 388-4547

Lebanon-Watertown AreaJeff Harvey (615) 268-7089Jennifer Harvey (615) 268-7032Denise Thorne (615) 237-9757

Duck River-Centerville AreaLarry* & Connie Baird(931) 729-5259

Manchester AreaCindy Worch (931) 723-2142

*Indicates ARS Master Rosarian

Nashville Rose Society 2013 Offi cers

President Tom Beath.........(615) 481.3589Vice-Pres Gene Meyer........(615) 373-0303Treasurer Gary Spencer......(615) 662-3819Rec. S’ty Hayes Gibson .......(615) 794-1708Cor. S’ty Millie Dolinger.....(901) 628-7137

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A Rose Lover’s CalendarNRS, Tenarky, & ARS Coming Events

OCTOBER

1 NRS Meeting at Cheekwood 6:30 PM Refreshments 7 PM - Program

4-6 Tenarky Fall Convention & Rose Show - Fern Valley Hotel & Conference Center, Louisville, KY

12-13 NRS Rose Show - Cheekwood

NOVEMBER

5 NRS Meeting at Cheekwood 6:30 PM Refreshments 7 PM - Program Richard Anthony - Owner of www.ForLoveofRoses.com

DECEMBER

3 NRS Annual Christmas Party at Cheekwood 6:30 PM with Dinner at 7 PM

Details & other event news available at www.nashvillerosesociety.com

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NRS Grand Prix II HighlightsStory on page 3

Top Left - The Grad Prix table full of beautiful roses. Top right - Grand Prix II winners, Sam and Nancy Jones, Lonnie Web, Rita Webb, Gene Meyer, and Starla Harding. Center right - the re-

sults of Lonnie Webb coaxed her mother -in-law Rita Webb, to

enter the Grand Prix was a King and Princess of Show!

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Best Miniature Arrangement, Line design using ‘Starla’ roses

Best Large Arrangement, Oriental design using ‘Candleabra’ roses

Best Rose in Bowl - ‘Crescendo’ by Wayne Metcalf