GardenFaces January 2012

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January 2012 President’s Message Welcome 2012! A brand new year means one thing: a brand new season for growing roses!

It won’t be long before we get out in the garden and begin our spring pruning just in time for our May rose show. A tremendous amount of planning and organization is involved to make our rose show a success and we want to see all our members involved in the process. Please consider what your role will be in this, our 60th rose show.

Sharpen your pruners and get ready for the annual pruning of the Dunn Formal Rose Garden is coming up on Saturday March 3, 2012. I hope that you will mark your calendar NOW and plan to participate in this important event.

Congratulations to BRS Members Lawrence Durham & Chris VanCleave both of whom won 2nd, 3rd, and Honorable Mention awards in several categories in the Deep South District Digital Photo Contest

2011 Deep South District BEST IN SHOW Winner

The Spring Plant sale benefiting the educational programs at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens will be held April 12 – 15 at the old Mazer furniture building in Homewood. Bob & Clayton are busy ordering roses for this event. Your help is needed to staff the rose tables at the sale. Details to come.

Christopher R. VanCleave

President, Birmingham Rose Society

‘Cajun Moon’ – Hybrid Tea Photo: Cindy Dale

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January 2012 Consulting Rosarian Report

If you haven't yet done it you need to remove every last leaf from your rose bushes. Remove also any fallen leaves. Leave the ground covered only with mulch to protect the roots.

Black spot spores are hearty. They collect in the crevasses, where leaves are attached, infect healthy leaves, grow during those pretty warm, humid winter days, some of which we just had, infect the new growth. And Voila!", another Spring and Summer of spraying. Try to nip it before it get to the new buds.

by Jane Hinds

Third, never go into the garden without a clean pair of pruners, a bucket for disposal, sunglasses and a vase of water. I am always amazed to find yet another rose, even in January. I found a beautiful Whirlaway in full bloom a week ago and took it to a friend in Skilled Nursing. Whirlaways are white minifloras and stay on the bush for weeks.

They are so compact that seeing them fully open is unusual.

A second suggestion: Generally rosarians are not told to prune roses before March or about the time the Forsythia blooms, however if you did not get around to cutting back your really tall canes the bushes can be whipped around by the wind so badly they can damage the bush, loosening the roots and even damaging the bushes flail. With all the leaves off and long canes cut back to about five feet they will inflict less harm.

You will need to do further pruning in March.

Also, these warm sunny days we have been having is a good time to dig your holes for roses you are moving or for new ones.

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‘Whirlaway’ – Miniflora

January Meeting Details Join Us!

January 30, 2012 – 6:30 p.m.

Hodges Room Birmingham Botanical Gardens Topic: “All About Arrangements” Certified ARS Arrangement Judges will present a program on what judges look for when judging arrangements at a rose show.

Anyone interested in flower arranging and or exhibiting arrangements will not want to miss this informative presentation.

Gloria Purnell, Program Chairman

NOTE: We will vote on previously discussed amendment to the bylaws at this meeting. __________________________________________ Executive Committee Meeting Monday January 30, 2012 5:30 p.m.

All Officers should attend

Watch What We Say Wanda Weirich

As Central District Chair of Arrangement Judges this year, I was at a rose show where a new exhibitor, a horticulture judge, entered an arrangement. I’ve been actively encouraging horticulture judges to try their hand at arrangements and ultimately become arrangement judges. I was very pleased that she entered; however, the design did not conform to the requirements of that class. She and I talked about what she could have done differently. Later she came to me and said “Look, the judge and an-other exhibitor are laughing at my design”. I tried to make the best of it, and said they must be talking about something else and had just turned to her design. It was obvious since they were pointing at it and laughing that she was correct. I was MORTIFIED. It was a lesson for me, and hopefully everyone, that we need to watch what we say and do at all times during a Rose Show.

We never know when a new arranger and possibly a future arrangement judge is near.

Taken from the Fall 2011 Rose Arranger’s Bulletin

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