NASHVILLE ROSE LEAF
Official Publication of The Nashville Rose Society Serving Rose Enthusiasts Throughout Middle Tennessee
April 2nd NRS Meeting at Cheekwood Guest Speaker Phillipe’ Chadwicke - Pick-up Fortunia Rose Order!!! 6:30 PM Refreshments & 7:00 PM Program april 2013 Volume 46, Issue 3
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Ryan’s Garden Notes: Additions to the Garden
April Speaker Phillipe Chadwicke
By Ryan Tilley, Master Rosarian wtilley598@aol.com Two years ago I decided to plant a lot of the newest varieties in a given year in large seven gallon pots instead of putting them right into the ground. This decision was made because of space issues in the garden as well as the fact that a lot of newer varieties are coming out on their own roots and tend to be sluggish growers in their first year. This will make it easier for me to deal with roses in half sun/half shade areas of my garden. And let’s face it, many new roses like ‘Legends’ just don’t live up to the hype of the word “NEW”, at least here in Georgia. This year, I will definitely stick to my original plan. I have room for seven or eight new bushes, but I am saving some of those spots for additional plants of ‘Impulse’, ‘Mohana’, and ‘Stephen Rulo’, the three best new hybrid teas that have come out in the last few years. These are proven performers and roses that I want more of in my garden.
‘Good As Gold’
‘Happy Go Lucky’
As for the other new ones that will be spending their time in big pots, I am most looking forward to ‘Francis Meilland’, the new light pink hybrid tea from, who else, Meilland. It’s been 10 years since I found a good new fragrant light pink hybrid tea. Fragrant yellow hybrid teas/grandifloras are few and far between, but the two new ones for 2014, ‘Good as Gold’ (grapefruit fragrance!) and ‘Happy Go Lucky’ (oldfashioned blooms and moderate tea fragrance) look like they are worth a try. (Cont’d on pg 8)
‘Queen Anne’
Our guest speaker for April will be Phillipe Chadwick, who has built a reputation for consistent show-stopping and vibrant flower designs. His arrangements make any event meaningful and personal and that always gets people talking. He knows just the trick, because at his core, Phillipe is a catalog of knowledge about plants and flowers. His first love is gardening, and he has tended garden styles ranging from heirloom vegetable to Japanese. A Nashville native, he received a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture from Mississippi State University in 2006. Then he started working as a landscape architect, managing civic designs for the city of Franklin, TN. In 2009, Phillipe joined the ranks of Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art as a horticulturalist, and catapulted them to a new level of hip. He breathed life into Cheekwood’s gardens, transforming them into lush scenes of texture and color. His resume includes The Antiques and Garden Show, the TPAC gala, and Chukkers for Charity. Occasionally he hosts Volunteer Gardener on NPT.