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April 2013
Spring finally arrived in my garden this week. I never count it officially spring until I see my first rose in bloom. Blooms of ‘Climbing Pinkie’ made their debut on Saturday and with the warmer temps and some fertilizer, all our roses are in GROW mode for the season. We hope to have some pretty blooms to exhibit in the rose show next month.
dedicate a bed of 20 ‘Coretta Scott King’ bushes, a new grandiflora rose introduced by Weeks Roses in honor of the Fifty Years Forward commemoration going on this year in Birmingham. Mayor William Bell and Executive Director of the Birmingham Botanical Gardens, Fred Spicer will give remarks and we will symbolically plant the roses in the garden. This event will garner local press coverage and I hope you will make every effort to come out in support of our society and the community which we serve.
'Climbing Pinkie' Polyantha
‘Coretta Scott King’ Grandiflora
It will soon be time for summer garden tours and it is my hope we will have gardens to visit May, June, July & August. Tina and I will be hosting the first tour of the year in our little garden in May. Details to come. If you are interested in hosting a tour of your garden, please contact Sharon Bamberg at 205-637-6954 to schedule your date.
I am proud to announce that Hanna’s Garden Shop will sponsor our rose show this year. Please support them and our advertisers with your business.
President’s Message
As discussed in our last meeting we will hold a dedication ceremony in the Dunn Formal Rose Garden on Friday May 10, 2013 at 11 a.m. to
Christopher R. VanCleave
President, Birmingham Rose Society
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Monthly Meeting April 29, 2013 - 6:30 p.m.
This Month’s Feature: Prepping Roses for the Show! BRS Members Harold Settle & Glenn Hodge will demonstrate good techniques for exhibiting roses.
Upcoming Events: Mark Your Calendars!
________________________________ Executive Committee 4/29/2013 - 5:30 p.m.
Birmingham Rose Show Dedication Ceremony May 10th 11 am Show Set Up: May 10th 1-5 pm
All Officers and Directors should attend if possible.
Show Dates: May 11 & 12, 2013 Birmingham Botanical Gardens Helena Market Days June 15, 2013 7:30 am - Noon The Falls @ Helena
Calling ALL members! Your help is needed during the rose show with the following: Watering Roses on display Greeting Guests
More events are being planned to help us expand our reach to the community. Stay Tuned!
Consulting Rosarian Report By Martha Eskew
April 2013 This has been a busy month with the plant sale and taking care of everything else in our garden. If you did not help with the sale, you missed a good time, lots of fun and fellowship. Hope you’ll plan to help next year. By now everyone’s rose garden should be pruned and you should have begun your spray program. It is important to stay on top of black spot fungus, thrips and aphids so that your roses will look their very best this year. You only have a few more weeks to grow and groom your roses before our rose show on May 11th. Read the schedule and decide which classes you want to enter. Walk your garden and look at your roses. Now may be the time to “thumb prune” your roses. As the bud eyes develop, you may notice one or two side buds in addition to the center bud. If you allow only the center bud to develop, you will have a larger bloom as the cane matures. This procedure is called “thumb pruning” as you pinch off the side buds.
An arrangement is a beautiful way to exhibit your roses. Also don’t forget the photography section of the show. Last month Jim Callaway gave a very good program on rose care and spraying. He emphasized the importance of watering. It is important to give the proper amount of water to have good roses to exhibit. On the average the proper amount of water is one inch of water per week. Celia Thaxter once said” Happy is the man who enters this world with a passion for flowers in his soul” Share your passion for roses with someone else. Come and bring your roses to the show.
If you have Floribundas, do not disbud them as they bloom in clusters. Remove the center bud to allow all the energy to go to the other buds in the cluster. The schedule has many places to enter roses such as baskets of miniatures, many collections of three or five or even twelve. If your foliage is bad, cut off the blooms for an English box, a painters palette or even a floating Rose “N” Crystal.
'Yabba Dabba Doo' - Weeks Roses
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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of the Birmingham Rose Society March 25, 2013 6:30 P.M.
Chris VanCleave, President called the meeting to order. We had thirty-one members, and one visitor attending the meeting. The hostesses, Martha Eskew, Dean Hodge and Gloria Purnell were thanked for providing refreshments for the evening. The minutes from the February 25th meeting were approved as printed in the March Garden Faces newsletter. Hyacinth Prince gave the treasurer’s report. As of March 25, 2013 the checking account balance is $3,789.09 and the CD balance is unchanged at $5,073.01. The pruning volunteers were thanked for coming to prune the rose garden on March 2nd. There will be a special event at the rose garden on Friday, May 10th. Weeks Roses has a rose for 2014 named Corretta Scott King to commemorate the civil rights anniversary. Birmingham Mayor Bell will dedicate twenty roses at 11:00 am.
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Financial Report: Submitted by: Hyacinth Prince
Robert Eskew reminded us again about the Plant Sale that will be held April 4-7, 2013. The sale site will be at the old Century Plaza where the JCPenny store was located. Volunteers are needed to help with this big event that is a lot of fun and helps the Garden. Tina VanCleave and Hyacinth Prince prepared the new Birmingham Rose Society Membership Guide and Directory for 2013. The directories were handed out to members. One directory per family was made available
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April 2013
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