Nashville Rose Leaf December 2010

Nashville Rose Leaf

Official Publication of The Nashville Rose Society Serving Rose Enthusiasts Throughout Middle Tennessee DECEMBER 2010

Affiliated with the American Rose Society - www.ars.org

Volume 44 44, Issue 11

December NRS Christmas Party at Cheekwood Tuesday, November 30th at 6:00PM December Rose of the Month Deidre Hall

Photo courtesy of Don Gill

Photo courtesy of Ron Shaw Omaha Rose Society

Hybrid Tea 2005

ARS Rating 7.4 By: Lori Emery My first introduction to Deidre Hall was at my garden club’s silent auction last month. Sara Jo Gill made a stunning arrangement using this rose. It is unbelievably fragrant and I was determined to get that arrangement no matter what. Several other garden club members had the same idea. I diligently continued to outbid everyone until the auction closed.

I was absolutely thrilled to be the new proud owner of one of Sara Jo’s masterpieces. I proudly took it home and placed it on the kitchen table. The fragrance perfumed the kitchen for several days. I was surprised at how long it lasted in the oasis filled vase. As luck would have it, Deidre Hall is on our 2011 rose sale fundraiser list ; (I am adding two of them to my Christmas wish list). I was curious about the history of the

rose and on checking out Help Me Find Roses I discovered that it was hybridized by Eddie Edwards in 2006. I spoke with Eddie recently and asked him how he came to hybridize the rose. He told me that Deidre Hall is an avid gardener and her producer asked Eddie to breed the rose for her. I remember watching Deidre Hall play psychiatrist Dr. Marlena Evans on “Days of Our Lives” for many years.

Contrary to the registration description, Deidre Hall has a very sweet-smelling fragrance, but it is not overwhelming. It is considered a yellow blend hybrid tea, though the petals are off white with pink edges. Parents are seedling x Santa Fe TM [hybrid tea, Zary, 1993].

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President’s Column December, it’s here already. This is usually the time to reminisce about all that has happened in the previous eleven months, so let’s do it. We experienced some hardships early in the year with the ice and snow. Then came the record setting floods. We managed to overcome these challenges and have a lot of reasons to celebrate 2010.

First came the beautiful roses this spring that we all love. Next we saw the Nashville Symphony become the only one in the world to have a rose named in its honor, and Crescendo made a splash in the only rose show in which it has ever been entered. Crescendo was named the Novice Queen of the annual Nashville Rose Show. The Nashville Music Garden has grown with the addition of several new roses including Crescendo, and if you have not visited in a while, be sure and see it next spring.

We instituted a new program this year of bringing a rose to our meetings, and it was very well received with exciting participation. We have also had wonderful participation in our Grand Prix mini rose shows, especially from our novice exhibitors. Many thanks to Dillard and Dianne Lester for coordinating these popular events. It is easy to see how this led to excellent support of our fall rose show in October, with more novice entries and new designers in the arrangement division than we have had in many years.

Four of our members received the Master Rosarian designation in 2010. We want to congratulate Sam Jones, Logan Shillinglaw, Robbie Tucker, and Lyle Worsham on their addition to this group.

We are excited to see the return of several members who had let their membership lapse, and the addition of several new members. These are certainly reasons to celebrate.

Welcome and welcome back.

Major congratulations to NRS member Robbie Tucker on the receiving ARS Silver Medal award at the Tenarky district convention this September in Memphis.

An award that was well deserved and too long coming.

While we are in congratulation mode, let’s not forget the ARS Bronze Medal being awarded to our own Nashville Rose Leaf editors, Jim and Starla Harding, at the November meeting. Thanks again for a job well done.

I have one more plea; we still need a webmaster for our excellent NRS website, so if this is your thing we need your help.

This has been a fun year for me and I hope for you as well. Thank you for all the support.

— Larry Baird

Editor’s Desk But for a small Christmas gift, it is certain I would not now be writing this month’s editor’s column. It is as equally assured that I would not have enjoyed the great pleasure of meeting many of you whom Jim and I both now consider dear friends. The gift, given to me four years ago by Jim, was a membership to the Nashville Rose Society.

Outwardly, I thanked him kindly but the truth of the matter is, in my heart of hearts, I was not a gracious recipient. Secretly, I believed that Jim really missed the mark with this gesture, but how to tell him? In the curious chambers of my over-active imagination I kept equating the words “rose society” with everything that is Pretentious (note the capital P).

It didn’t help that my first issue of The Nashville Rose Leaf depicted members in their finest attire. It just happened to be the issue following the annual Christmas Banquet where it would be appropriate to wear such fancy garb, but I had no way of knowing this. Besides, it bolstered my “snooty” theory.

I had no intention of subjecting myself to needless snobbery and vowed to myself not to attend even one meeting.

I was legitimately unable to attend the first meeting, so Jim (who, himself, had never intended to accompany me)

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attended in my absence. I was confident he would come home with a humble report that he and I might not be a good fit. Instead, he came home and laughed in my “ I told you so” face. This forced me to attend the next meeting.

I don’t recall the first member I came upon, I only recall the first handshake… from a garden-calloused hand.

I looked around the room and noticed that the only nose in the air had been my own. I had wrongly judged the demeanor of an entire group of wonderful people solely based on a name. I was happily mistaken about the manner of people that belong to the NRS. It is much like a family whose many diversities come together to share a common love, in our case, the rose.

If anyone had told me four years ago that Jim and I would become extremely active in the NRS, much less editors of the Nashville Rose Leaf, I would have emphatically declared them not to know me well. Yet, here we are. So, if you find yourself reading this as a new member, keep in mind that much can happen in four years.

Jim’s gift to me that year has turned out to be limitless in its ability to keep giving. Both of us view our friendships and collections of memories with many of you as an extension of that gift.

Some gifts have a way of continuing to give, particularly the most priceless gift of all, which we are soon to celebrate.

In that spirit, Jim and I wish each of you a memorable Thanksgiving, a joyful Christmas and a New Year filled with bountiful blessings.

— Starla and Jim Harding

Roy Almond Roy Almond passed away on Saturday, November 20th. He and his wife Helen were long time members of the Bowling Green society and judged many of the shows all around the Tenarky area.

While Roy and Helen had taken emeritus status the last few years there still plenty of members who remember Roy and will miss him. The NRS extends our condoloences to Roy’s family.

The December Rose Garden

December Rose Tips

By: Jim Harding Santa knows who has been naughty or nice. If you have been a good little rosarian this year and have properly prepared your roses for winter then you can sit back and make out your wish list for Santa, (see Leann Barron’s article on page 4 for ideas). If you have been a bad rosarian, then you still have some work to do before Santa comes to town.

As noted in November, about the only spray activity you may want to consider this winter is to spray dormant oil and lime-sulfur to discourage bugs and diseases for next year. With any chemicals be sure to read the label and apply in accordance with manufacturer’s recommendations. Once you are done spraying for the winter, clean and put away your spray equipment. Also remember to store your chemicals in a safe place where they will not freeze. An old insulated cooler works well.

If you want to give your roses an early Christmas present, have the soil in your roses beds tested. The best test is to send soil samples to the agricultural extension office. The University of Tennessee Soil, Plant and Pest Center is located at the Ellington Agricultural Center in Nashville. It is equipped for routine soil analysis to make lime and fertilizer recommendations and offers its services to all Tennesseans (615) 832-5850. Soil samples need to come from the root zone of the plant, which means getting down past the mulch into the root zone where the soil chemistry is important.

If the pH is lower than 6.0,you should add a slow-acting lime. If the test showed the pH higher than 7.0, then you should add sulfur.. A pH of 6.5 is ideal for roses to be able to maximize the available nutrients. Most soils in middle Tennessee tend to be more acidic than alkaline so, if your soil pH needs adjusting, odds are you will need to add lime. But how much lime is the right amount? To raise the pH from 5.5 to 6.5 a typical application rate is 2 to 3 pounds per 100 square feet of garden area. Do not use more than 5 pounds per

100 square feet at any one time. If you are not sure how big your rose bed is, use 1 cup of lime per bush and ½ cup per miniature. Remember that raking the lime into the top couple inches of soil will yield better results than sprinkling it over the soil’s surface.

Whether you have been bad or good this year, pick up the Fortuniana rose order form and make out your wish list.

See the insert in the November Nashville Rose Leaf or visit the NRS website to download a copy or “or contact sales coordinator, Charles Lott, (615) 824-5614, crlott@bellsouth.net, for a copy..

Deidre Hall (cont’d) By: Lori Emery It has a high centered exhibition form, dark green sleek foliage and long stems and can grow to five or 6 feet. The rose has five to six inch diameter flowers that have between 26-40 petals, bloom in flushes and can be used for cut flower, exhibition, garden or specimen. It has a rating of 7.4 with good disease resistance.

Deidre Hall is one of very few roses that is equally as beautiful at the exhibition stage as well as in open bloom. Long time NRS member and expert rosarian Don Gill says that in his opinion “Deidre Hall is a great rose, from the bush to the queens table. The sprays, fragrance and open blooms are magnificent. Everyone should have one or more bushes in there garden.” Consider asking Santa for this beautiful rose!

NRS Patrons Our thanks to the following businesses and foundations who have made sustaining donations to support the educational programs of Nashville Rose Society:

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Remember that catalogs sometimes exaggerate the good qualities of roses.

Check the rose rating in the ARS Handbook for Selecting Roses and/or ask a Consulting Rosarian how well the rose does in your area before ordering.

— Marty Reich, ARS Master Rosarian To guard against drop outs, be sure to remember the new members of your rose society. Take a few moments and add them to your Christmas card list. Let them know that you are glad they joined the society and you and the CR’s are available to give them rose growing advice should they need it.

— Ted Mills, ARS Master Rosarian All roses are not created equal. Some varieties that seem weak may do better on Fortuniana than another rootstock or on their own roots. If you have a rose that underperformed this year, don’t hesitate to shovel prune. Your time and resources are too valuable to spend on puny plants. You can spend more money on lunch than a rose bush, so reinvigorate your rose garden by bringing in new varieties. The Fortuniana sale has a long list of great roses and ‘Crescendo’ will be on sale in the spring. Keep your rose garden exciting. There’s nothing like seeing a new variety bloom its first rose, smelling it, photographing it, cutting it, bringing it to a friend, and just enjoying our hobby.

— Annie Owen, ARS Master Rosarian Sit back, grab a beer and enjoy your garden photos from last year. While looking at your photos see where there are any spaces in your garden or color combinations that did not work for you. Make notes and plans for filling in the spaces or moving plants in the early spring.

— Jeff Harvey, ARS Consulting Rosarian The deer decimated our garden this fall, eating every bloom from all 200 bushes.

Normally we’re bringing in up to 300 roses each week this time of year. Over the past two weeks, we’ve harvested six. We turned to Cheekwood for advice. They advised us to condition our garden against deer encroachment. We were told to spray “Liquid Fence” around the perimeter every week. It’s available at the co-op and well worth any price. Wish we’d known earlier, but now we do and you do too. Better luck next year!

— Don Reed

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from the ground up “Holiday Edition” “Dear Santa, I miss you. How’s the Missus? Well, I’ve been pretty good this year.. ahem...so, er, here’s my garden wish list, most items of which should easily make it down the chimney...at least, I hope so.

Books: If I “deserve” anything in my stocking, it would be “The Non-Stop Garden” by Stephanie Cohen & Jennifer Benner (Timber Press). The Garden Diva has done it again: this is a fantastic step-by-step guide to smart plant choices and four-season designs that’s simple enough for the novice, but highly useful to even the savviest gardener. An added bonus is that Stephanie is a great writer and good storyteller. In “The Non-Stop Garden,” she shares her gardening journey, from her beginnings as a strict perennial garden purist to maturing in her understanding that “perennials play nicely with others,” including the beauty of woodies, annuals, vines, tropicals and herbs. Highly recommended for all levels of gardeners.

souls, among others, were privileged to spend time in all the gardens, and considered “Christo,” as he was affectionately dubbed, a friend as well as mentor. In 1979, Lloyd was awarded the Victoria Medal of Honor, the highest award of the Royal Horticultural Society. His design aesthetic was greatly influenced by Gertrude Jekyll and Vita Sackville-West, and he went on to inspire a new generation of gardeners. For sheer inspiration, this book is a must-have.

Please Santa, Please?

Also from Timber Press, a beautiful new book, “The View from Great Dixter” Christopher Lloyd’s Garden Legacy. This gorgeous collection of essays and photographs, contributed by esteemed horticulturists, writers and photographers, pays homage to Great Dixter, the quintessential garden of the late visionary English horticulturist, Christopher Lloyd. Many garden luminaries wrote tributes to this worldfamous garden, including Dan Hinkley, Helen Dillon, Beth Chatto, Wayne Winterrowd and Anna Pavord. These fortunate

Extreme Birdhouses: No, really, that’s the company name. I break at least two of the Ten Commandments every time I browse this website: www.extremebirdhouse.com. Covet, want. Alas, I am not a woodworker and at this writing, I cannot afford one of these Rockefeller-priced custom bird mansions. However, they do have affordable birdhouse plans, for those so inclined, and the cost doesn’t deter me one little bit from lusting after at least one of these beauties. I’ll bet you could attract the rarest of the rare birds to these meticu-

Next up,“The Perpetual Gardening Record Book,” from Cabin Tiger http://www. cabintiger.com/record_book_s/38.htm.

Both useful and inspirational, this stylish record keeper is the perfect place to quickly note rainfall, first and last frosts, plantings --- any event or activity in your garden. And it’s perpetual, so several years’ worth of notations are readily available at a glance.

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lously constructed feathered-friend castles.

Hands down, these are the most magnificent birdhouses I’ve come across. Now if I can either find an affordable version, or someone who loves me and wants to give me a wildly fabulous present. Any ideas, Santa baby?

This past year, I promised myself to be more stylish in the garden. Perhaps that’s why I was so seldom in the garden this year....anyway, I am forever in search of good-looking garden attire. Every Christmas I ask for a Tula Hat and every Christmas I get a knitted cap instead. Bah humbug. Perhaps this year, my luck will change, and I’ll find a lovely Tula hat under the tree. These outdoor hats are handwoven of palm in the traditional manner

by: leann barron by families in a small village near central Mexico. http://www.tulahats.com/

Also high on the wish list is anything(!) from Eagle Optics: http://www.eagleopticsblog.com/ This deluxe outdoor optical outfitter has everything from beginner binoculars and monoculars, spotting scopes and night vision binoculars to ultra highend binoculars and scopes. Gardeners everywhere share an interest in wildlife, especially birds and butterflies, and this highly respected company is a great source for quality and value. Check it out.

And last but not least, I would love, love, love a fabulous Weems & Plath® brass Jeffersonian Rain Gauge. Good rain gauges aren’t cheap, and cheap rain gauges aren’t good. Variations of this practical instrument have been in use since President Thomas Jefferson himself, yet it remains timelessly beautiful garden art. Made of solid brass, glass and stainless steel, it is guaranteed for life. http://www.weems-plath.com/products/the-jeffersonian-rain-gauge/

NRS News

2011 NRS Fortuniana Rose Sale The 2011 Nashville Rose Society Fortuniana Rose sale offers some new varieties not previously available on Fortuniana root stock.

Our supplier (K & M Roses, a.k.a. James Mills) has added new cultivars to the list and more than 300 roses, all grafted on Fortuniana root stock, are available in the sale. Only a limited number of growers provide roses on Fortuniana root stock, and K&M is one of the most popular. Quantities are limited, so send your order early if you want to ensure getting the roses you want. You will find the Fortuniana order form available on the NRS website www.nashvillerosesociety.com.

Remember that all proceeds from the rose sale go to support publication of Nashville Rose Leaf. If you have any questions contact Charles Lott at (615) 824-5614 or crlott@bellsouth.net.

We’ll Be Home for Christmas As the end of another year approaches, and you begin to plan for the holidays, be sure and circle November 30 on your calendar.

That is the date for the annual Christmas celebration of the Nashville Rose Society.

This year, we have some exciting changes in the way we are doing things. First, as most of our awards were distributed at the regular November meeting, this will be an opportunity to have a real old fashioned Christmas Party.

Happy Holidays, One and All! Second, we are looking forward to a covered dish dinner as only the great cooks of the NRS can prepare, so bring your favorite dish and join in. Also, as Southern traditions dictate, we will exchange gifts with a difference, so bring along a gardening related gift ( not over $20) for a fun filled evening of celebration. The NRS will furnish Honey-baked Ham for the entrée, so just cook up a plate or two of your favorite dishes or desserts, and come on out at 6:30 p.m. to our regular meeting place at Massey Hall at Cheekwood and enjoy the fun.

peoplepc.com) (931-729-5259). This could be a great opportunity to introduce some of your friends to the rose community, so bring them along.

If you would like to start your celebration a little early, come on out to Cheeekwood about 5:00 p.m. and help with the decoration of the room and tables. Looking forward to a wonderful evening, see you there.

ARS NEWS

ARS Trial Membership Programs Looking for a great stocking stuffer? A $5.00 4-Month Trial Membership is available for existing local society, non-ARS members.

Every member that joins a local society and is not an ARS member, receives a FREE 4-month Trial Membership to the American Rose Society – an $86 value! Send the contact information, including e-mail address, to Laura Pfender laura@ars-hq.org, at Headquarters. The $5.00 fee offsets processing and mailing costs. ARS does not make money on this offer. For this small fee, any local society member who is not already an ARS member, can try ARS out and hopefully, like ARS enough to renew at the full membership rate when the trial membership expires.

In addition: our local rose society may also extend this $5.00 4-month trial membership to any Non-ARS member attending a rose or garden event that they are hosting. This is a special offer to local societies, The general public, (Non-ARS members) will be offered the 4-month trial membership for a fee of $10 . Applications are available on the website or from Laura Pfender. How about a full membership for someone you love!

Reminders from American Rose Society Headquarters Staff • Nominations for the Glenda Whitaker award for achievement in membership now being accepted!! Nominations are due by December 31, 2010.

• Remember to send in your nomination for the Blake Hedrick Award nominations (Deadline: December 30)! Nomination Oh, and just for the convenience of the plan- forms are also available by contacting Laura ners, please call or e-mail and let them know Pfender, Membership Director, 318- 938how many will be in your group (cbaird@ 5402, ext. 108, laura@ars-hq.org 5 NASHVILLE ROSE LEAF, DECEMBER 2010

ROSE RHETORIC By: Rich Baer, Master Rosarian When cooler weather begins settling over the rose garden, the rose gardener begins seeking advice on how to insure the future health of the roses. Unfortunately, the gardener may turn to sources which he has come to trust. Often these sources will completely lead him or her astray. Your editor, [“The Rose Chatter”newsletter of the Portland, OR Rose Society] with 30 plus years of intensive rose training and three higher education degrees in botany, hopefully will lead you in the correct direction. It is not that the advice from the usual sources will cause irreparable harm, although, in some cases it may. So let’s look at some of the advice you may see that is, well shall we say, questionable.

One fact that seems to be missed by many rose experts is one that leads to incorrect advice about roses. This one fact that many experts seem unwilling to accept is that modern roses do not have the ability to become dormant. This is true of all repeat blooming roses. One time blooming Old Garden Roses have the ability to become dormant for the winter season and do so just like maple trees etc. Modern and repeat blooming roses sacrificed the ability to become dormant when they went through the genetic change that allows them to rebloom. So when the advice from any source tells you that you must do something to help the rose into dormancy, you know you are about to get some unsound advice.

Bad Advice: Cut few flowers from your bushes at this time of year and if you do cut them only cut short stems. The reason for doing this is that any cutting done on the rose bush will cause it to produce new growth, and that new growth may be killed by the winter.

Bad Advice: Do not prune away the dead flowers in the fall. Just remove the petals when they fade. This action allows the roses to produce rose hips (seeds) which is important if you want to help the roses go into dormancy.

Good Advice: Many gardeners take great pride in the way their gardens look, even in the fall. Many roses have grown quite tall during the summer season and will eventually need to be cut back to protect them from the winter winds. So, to keep your garden looking beautiful, continue to remove those spent blooms. You may even want to cut longer stems than you did in the summer which will give you a little head start on cutting back the bushes, which you will probably do later in the season. On the other hand, if you do not want to prune away the dead flowers, removing the dead petals from the plants will keep your garden looking better. You will find that very few hips will develop because most modern roses tend to produce few hips.

Bad Advice: Roses need a rest period so that they will be rejuvenated for the next growing season, so remove the leaves which will signal the rose that it is time to become dormant.

Good Advice: Modern roses that are grown for the floral industry grow and bloom twelve months of the year, and often do this for many years and never get “a rest”.

Your roses are the same. However, the cold weather that will come with our winters will cause most of the leaves to fall off our roses.

Leaves that remain on the plant through the winter should be removed with spring pruning. Overwintered leaves are basically nonfunctional and are not very pretty, which is the one reason for removing them during spring pruning. There is no reason that leaves should be removed from the plants in the fall. Even while the cold causes leaf loss the rose plant is not dormant, however, its overall growth is slowed to a crawl by the cold weather and short days of winter.

Good Advice: Enjoy your roses to the fullest extent possible. If you want to cut roses for the house, take as many as you want and cut stems as long as you like. Yes, it is likely that if warm sunny weather continues the rose will begin to produce new growth right below the cut where you removed the rose just like it always does. Whether this new growth lives or dies during the winter is completely Bad Advice: Make sure that you remove all irrelevant because it will be removed when of the leaves from the rose bed because they you reduce the size of the bush during spring will re-infect your roses with disease in the pruning since it will still be at the top of the spring. bush.

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Good Advice: Picking up the dead leaves from the rose garden may indeed make the garden look better but it will not reduce the incidence of disease in your garden next year and it is a lot of work. Most rose diseases overwinter on the rose canes (stems) either as active fungal lesions or as spores under the bud scales which are found up ,and down the rose canes. The reduction of disease in next year’s garden can be accomplished by intervening with fungicides as the rose begins to grow next spring. The spores that have been residing on the stems through the winter move to the new foliage and begin the disease cycle early in the year. Fungicides can stop that process, picking up leaves this fall will not. This is also why a cold winter will often be followed by a year of lighter than usual fungal activity. The canes are killed by the winter and are removed in spring pruning which removes much of the source of fungal infection as well.

Bad Advice: Do not apply any fertilizer with nitrogen in it because this will stimulate the rose to produce new growth. Instead apply a fertilizer with no nitrogen such as a 0-0-10 or 0-10-10, (the first is a potassium only fertilizer, the second is a potassium and phosphorous fertilizer), because these will help the plant into dormancy.

Good Advice: Apply no fertilizer for the rest of the year. The cooler weather and the shorter days are causing the growth of the rose to slow and the colder weather to come will reduce it to almost a standstill. Under these conditions the rose will not be taking any nutrients up from the soil. Any product that you add late in the fall will probably be leached through the root zone into our groundwater, which is not really what we want to do. If you were to apply nitrogen fertilizer at this time of year it would not stimulate new growth in the rose, but longer days and warmer temperatures next spring will be the stimulus for the rose to produce new growth.

(This article is a reprint from the “The Rose Chatter” newsletter of the Portland, OR Rose Society, editors Rich & Dr. Charold Baer).

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A Rose Lover’s Calendar

NRS, Tenarky, & ARS Coming Events

Welcome Back Old Members!

NOVEMBER

Sue Carney

Nashville Rose Society Annual Christmas Party - Pot Luck Cheekwood, November. 30, 6:30 PM

6006 Hickory Valley Rd. Nashville, TN 37205

DECEMBER - JANUARY

615-356-2223

No NRS Meeting Ken & Britt Wood

FEBRUARY

799 Saussy Place

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NRS Meeting at Cheekwood Nashville, TN 37205

18-20 Tenarky District Winter Workshop - Cool Springs Marriott (For Registration information, see Tenarky Website, www.tenarky.org) 20

615-356-7411

8:30 - 12:30 - Tenarky District CR School Audit (Information on Tenarky Website, www.tenarky.org) Details & other event news available at

ARS Consulting Rosarians South Nashville Leann Barron ....................(615) 269-0240 *Marty Reich ....................(615) 833-0791

www.nashvillerosesociety.com

West Nashville Keith Garman ....................(615) 352-6219 *Sam & Nancy Jones ........(615) 646-4138

Nashville Rose Leaf is printed by: The Print Authority Brentwood, Tennessee

Contributions Nashville Rose Society is a 501c-3 organization and all contributions to the society are tax-deductible. Contributions may be made as memorials or to honor some person, group or occasion. Checks for contributions should be made payable to Nashville Rose Society and mailed to: CINDY WORCH 137 Urban Farms Rd. Manchester, TN 37355 ((931) 723-2142 rosegardener@hughes.net

Nashville Rose Leaf The 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

Nashville Rose Society 2010 Officers President Larry Baird................(931) 729-5259 Vice-Pres Ron Daniels...............(615) 330-7083 Treasurer Susan Sinclair............(615) 386-3818 Rec. S’ty Hayes Gibson ...........(615) 794-1708 Cor. S’ty Cynthia Worch ..........(931) 723-2142 Previous Pres. Sandra Frank..... .(615) 383-058

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 objectives of the organization. Annual dues of $20.00 per household include a subscription 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

Disclaimer: While the advice and information in this newsletter is believed to be true and accurate at the time of publication, 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.

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Brentwood Area *Cecil & Bessie Ward ........(615)373-2245 Jerry & Marise Keathley ....(615)377-3034 Franklin Area *Anne Owen .....................(615) 794-0138 *Logan & Joan Shillinglaw(615) 790-7346 *Robbie&Marsha Tucker ..(615) 595-9187 Hendersonville Area Ron Daniels.......................(615) 330-7083 Charles Lott.......................(615) 824-5614 Jack Wedekind ..................(615) 824-8696 Murfreesboro Area Dillard & Diane Lester......(615) 896-0203 Columbia Area *Lyle Worsham .................(931) 388-4547 Lebanon-Watertown Area Jeff Harvey ........................(615) 268-7089 Jennifer Harvey .................(615) 268-7032 Duck River-Centerville Area *Larry & Connie Baird .....(931) 729-5259 Manchester Area Cindy Worch .....................(931) 723-2142 *Indicates ARS Master Rosarian

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Cynthia Kwazu and Ken Wood line up to taste and vote for the best chili and cornbread.

NRS President Larry Baird presents a well deserved thank you to Cindy LeMay and Linda Ring for their past two years of serving on the Hospitality Committee.

President Larry Baird did his best Santa Claus (sans beard) impression by handing out honors, awards, prizes, and gifts of appreciation at the November NRS meeting, (the last scheduled meeting until February of next year). It is a well known fact that NRS members like to eat so it is no surprise that the Ice Cream social and Chili Cook-off meetings are always well attended.

This year prizes for the Ice Cream social winners was a tie between Ruby Worsham and Robert Bowen. The best dessert was Francine Daniels’ cherry cobbler. The Chili Cook-off winner was Charles Lott and the best cornbread prize went to Ruby Worsham. It makes one wonder what would happen if Ruby shows up next year with a cornbread flavored ice cream?

President Larry Baird (center) presented Lyle Worsham (left) and Sam Jones (right) with their Master Rosarian name tags

Very special thank you gifts were presented to Cindy LeMay and Linda Ring along with a big round of applause for doing an awesome job keeping us all happily fed for the past two years.

Master rosarian badges were handed out to Lyle Worsham and Sam Jones. Last, but not least, the ARS Bronze Medal award was presented to Jim and Starla Harding. Jim claimed “you must be present to win”, therefore he did not have to share the award with Starla.

Photos courtesy of Jim Harding

Highlights from the November Meeting & Chili-Cookoff