Rose Herald, Kennewick–Pasco–Richland, Washington June 2016, Vol. 52, No. 6 1 Rose Herald President’s Message Click on links to view each Society’s website Tri-City Rose Society owt.com/rosesociety PNW District Rose Society pnwdistrict.org/ American Rose Society www.rose.org. Next Meeting June 25, 2016 Spokane Rose Show Northland Rosarium, Spokane, WA Also a visit to Manito Park! (pictured above) Carpools will meet at the the Burger King parking lot at King City Truck Stop at 7:00 AM RSVP to Harlow Young 735-3481 or Jim Campbell 967-2606 The 2016 spring Rose Show was beautiful. The Judges were very complimentary of the number and quality of entries, all a tribute to the hard work of many of you, and your great roses. This month’s program includes a trip to Spokane, WA on Saturday, June 25th to take in the Spokane Rose Society Rose Show and also visit “Rose Hill” in Manito Park. This is a departure from our normal “fourth-Monday-of-the-month” meeting schedule, and will preempt what would be our normally scheduled meeting on Monday, June 27th. The Spokane Rose Show will be held on the property of the Northland Rosarium, just north of the city of Spokane. The address is: 9405 S. Williams Lane, Spokane, WA 99224. With modern phones and I-Pads, their GPS systems should be able to direct you to the Show venue without any trouble. For those of you who wish to carpool to the show and the other events we have planned for this day, please meet in the parking lot of Burger King Restaurant at King City (north of Pasco on interstate 395). We’d like to leave the parking lot at 7:00 am. We’ll likely stop in Ritzville for a short break, then continue on our way. The gardens of the Northland Rosarium will be open for everyone to wander through their beautiful roses and other flowers. The retail stores of roses and other per- ennials will also be available for “shopping.” Manito Park (pictured above) contains one of the premier rose gardens of the Pacific Northwest. It is a garden of about 1500 rose bushes, representing 150 different varieties. This time of year, it will be in prime display of color. For those of you who may be traveling in your own vehicles, the main entrance to the Park is at 1702 S. Grand Blvd, Spokane, WA 99203. We plan to travel to this garden after lunch, once the Spo- kane Rose Show has been judged, and everyone has had a chance to see the rose dis- plays. There are a few of us in the Tri-City Rose Society who are traveling to the Spo- kane Rose Show as Judges, so it is important that we arrive in time to prepare for this activity. Those who are entering roses must have them in the show by 10:00 a.m. In or- der to accommodate this time schedule, we must leave the Tri-Cities by 7:00 a.m. on Saturday, June 25th so that we arrive at the Show venue in time to prepare any entries and also to allow the Judges time to assemble. Some recommendations for this trip: (1) Bring your cameras. You’ll want to take pictures at the Show venue and also at Manito Park; (2) Bring roses from your gar- den to enter into the Spokane Rose Show. (See page 3 for a link to the show schedule.) Who knows, you may walk away with a great prize; and (3) Bring sun screen. If there are questions about this trip, please contact any of the Tri-City Rose Society officers whose phone numbers and email addresses are listed on page 10. Thank you for your great support of our show at the end of May. It was indeed a good one. Your President, Harlow Young In This Issue President’s Message p 1 May 2016 Minutes p 2 June Meeting Info p 3 Links for Spokane Show Welcome to Our Show! p 3 2016 Rose Show Results p 4-7 THANK YOU, Janet Bryant! Rose Show Wrap Up p 8 By JoAnn Brehm—Rose Show Chair June Rose Garden p 9 by Norma Boswell ARS Award to Rose Whisperer p 9 Officers, CR’s, MR’s & p 10
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Rose Herald
President’s Message
Click on links to view each Society’s website
Tri-City Rose Society owt.com/rosesociety
PNW District Rose Society pnwdistrict.org/
American Rose Society www.rose.org.
Next Meeting June 25, 2016
Spokane Rose Show Northland Rosarium, Spokane, WA
Also a visit to Manito Park! (pictured above)
Carpools will meet at the the Burger King parking lot at King City Truck Stop at
7:00 AM RSVP to Harlow Young
735-3481 or Jim Campbell
967-2606
The 2016 spring Rose Show was beautiful. The Judges were very complimentary of the number and quality of entries, all a tribute to the hard work of many of you, and your great roses. This month’s program includes a trip to Spokane, WA on Saturday, June 25th to take in the Spokane Rose Society Rose Show and also visit “Rose Hill” in Manito Park. This is a departure from our normal “fourth-Monday-of-the-month” meeting schedule, and will preempt what would be our normally scheduled meeting on Monday, June 27th. The Spokane Rose Show will be held on the property of the Northland Rosarium, just north of the city of Spokane. The address is: 9405 S. Williams Lane, Spokane, WA 99224. With modern phones and I-Pads, their GPS systems should be able to direct you to the Show venue without any trouble. For those of you who wish to carpool to the show and the other events we have planned for this day, please meet in the parking lot of Burger King Restaurant at King City (north of Pasco on interstate 395). We’d like to leave the parking lot at 7:00 am. We’ll likely stop in Ritzville for a short break, then continue on our way. The gardens of the Northland Rosarium will be open for everyone to wander through their beautiful roses and other flowers. The retail stores of roses and other per-ennials will also be available for “shopping.” Manito Park (pictured above) contains one of the premier rose gardens of the Pacific Northwest. It is a garden of about 1500 rose bushes, representing 150 different varieties. This time of year, it will be in prime display of color. For those of you who may be traveling in your own vehicles, the main entrance to the Park is at 1702 S. Grand Blvd, Spokane, WA 99203. We plan to travel to this garden after lunch, once the Spo-kane Rose Show has been judged, and everyone has had a chance to see the rose dis-plays. There are a few of us in the Tri-City Rose Society who are traveling to the Spo-kane Rose Show as Judges, so it is important that we arrive in time to prepare for this activity. Those who are entering roses must have them in the show by 10:00 a.m. In or-der to accommodate this time schedule, we must leave the Tri-Cities by 7:00 a.m. on Saturday, June 25th so that we arrive at the Show venue in time to prepare any entries and also to allow the Judges time to assemble. Some recommendations for this trip: (1) Bring your cameras. You’ll want to take pictures at the Show venue and also at Manito Park; (2) Bring roses from your gar-den to enter into the Spokane Rose Show. (See page 3 for a link to the show schedule.) Who knows, you may walk away with a great prize; and (3) Bring sun screen. If there are questions about this trip, please contact any of the Tri-City Rose Society officers whose phone numbers and email addresses are listed on page 10. Thank you for your great support of our show at the end of May. It was indeed a good one. Your President, Harlow Young
In This Issue
President’s Message p 1 May 2016 Minutes p 2 June Meeting Info p 3 Links for Spokane Show
Welcome to Our Show! p 3 2016 Rose Show Results p 4-7 THANK YOU, Janet Bryant! Rose Show Wrap Up p 8 By JoAnn Brehm—Rose Show Chair
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TCRS Minutes, March 28, 2016 By Joann Rung, Secretary Pro Tem
Harlow Young opened the meeting and asked if the minutes from April could be approved as reported in the Rose Herald. The minutes were approved. Harlow announced the June meeting will be in Spokane to coincide with their rose show and to visit Manito Park afterwards. The July meeting will take place at Harlow’s rose garden in Kennewick. The garden for the August meeting is not yet determined. Harlow announced that help is needed at Lawrence Scott Park to deadhead roses and weed beds. Harlow works at Lawrence Scott Park every Tuesday about 10:00 a.m. He needs your help to maintain the rose beds. Harlow gave a copy of the American Rose, the magazine of the American Rose Society, to Michael Rung (Librarian) to put in the library. Our Pacific Northwest District newsletter won Honorable Mention in the ARS newsletter contest.
JoAnn Brehm made announcements about the rose show on May 28, 2016 and sent around sign-up sheets for jobs that need to be filled for the show. She asked everyone to bring extra roses for the cut rose sale for the public to purchase at the rose show. Harlow Young introduced Jim Campbell, who spoke on the subject of getting your rose(s) ready to put in the vase(s) to bring to the rose show for competition. Jim asked new members and long time members what they would do with each rose he held up. The conver-
sations were lively and most of those present discussed the pros and cons of each rose sample furnished and presented by Jim. Below is what I learned from Jim: Everyone likes long-stemmed roses. Keep roses plumb (standing up, not leaning) when put in vases for display. Display 1, 3, 4, 5, or 6 roses at a time, never have just two roses in one vase. Judges do not like roses with “confused” centers. A high center in the roses is desirable. Symmetrical roses and displays are always desirable. Do not have “stem on stem” when displaying roses, except Old Garden Roses and Species Roses. Side buds are not good. Judges like to see bouquets of roses. The center of modern roses must be 2/3 to 3/4 open (not too tight). Rose buds are not desirable. Damaged leaves are only a minor deduction. It is OK to delete or “fix” damaged leaves and petals. Don’t choose roses that are beyond their peak. Put roses in warm water immediately after cutting for ½ hour and then in a refrigera-
tor to keep them fresh. However, newer refrigerators will dry out the petals, so wrap them in plastic wrap.
You don’t need to know the official name of the rose to enter it in the Tri-City Rose Society. The club has experts to help you with the naming.
Judges seem to prefer more petals over a “single” rose. A single rose is classified as having only 5 to 8 petals. Roses may like a pinch of sugar in the vase (dissolved in the water) when freshly cut. Choosing a rose(s) for display is an art, not science, so use your common sense and have fun. There were twenty members and four guests present at the May 23rd meeting. The guests were Kristen Brown, Jon McCune,
Sheyl Fortin and Noah Fortin. The three door prizes were won by Michael Rung (book), Norma Boswell (book) and Richard Kerkof (miniature rose plant). Debra Best checked out the ARS May/June magazine from the newly created club library. Debra was the first customer to check out material from the library. Prior to the start of the meeting, vases were offered for displaying roses at the rose show, signs were handed out to advertise the rose show, and money was collected from those who wanted to attend the rose show luncheon. Cut roses will be sold at the rose show. Bring your roses (for sale and for judging) to the tables in the back (river side) of the Richland Community Center. This is the place to ask questions and get any help you may need. Entries will be received from 7:30 to 10:00 a.m.
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Next Meeting June 25, 2016 Spokane Rose Show at Northland Rosarium & Manito Park
‘Paradise Found’ Spokane’s 2015 Queen of Show by Ray Hoffman. This year, members of the Tri-City Rose Society have a chance to exhibit their blooms at the Spokane Rose Show! If you’ve ever been a little nervous about venturing out to a rose show beyond our own, don’t be. You will be right alongside supportive TCRS members! Who wants a picture of their rose on Spokane’s 2016 winners page?
Northland Rosarium will host the event. For information about the rose show—check out Spokane’s society links!
Spokane Rose Society—click here
Spokane Rose Show—click here
Complete Rose Show Schedule– click here
Northland Rosarium map– click here
After the show, members will travel to Manito Park where Harlow has a fun scavenger hunt planned. This beautiful garden will delight every rose grower! See page 1 for carpool information.
TCRS Rose Show Excitement—Here it is!
Meet Brianna Dahl with her first entry in a rose show! It was a wonderful event for her as you can see while she proudly displays her rose. Brianna and her mom, Stephanie, enjoyed looking at all the roses and purchased one of our fund-raising mini roses. This new exhibitor loves roses and I hope we see her smiling face for years and years to come! Way to go, Brianna!
There is a saying, “Sometimes you win, sometimes you learn.” I think there are times you can feel like a winner—because you learned. We congratulate Brianna and the Kerr family for their enthusiasm and encourage the continuation of this new found love for roses!
“My 3 nieces Layla 9, Emily 13 and Bell 16 had a blast and want to plant and grow roses now. They are excited to go to next year’s rose show. My sons Elijah 17, Jackson 8 and Joey 7 also had a blast. Every one of the kids had favorite roses picked out and took tons of pictures. They were all amazed at the wonderful fragrances and stunning colors. I, myself, had a blast and can't wait for next year!!!!” Mari Kerr
Other new faces to this year’s show included a fast learning group of youngsters with Mari Kerr. These willing workers helped with the labeling process, carried roses to their proper locations for judging and aided and assisted every way they could!
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‘Dancing with Roses’ was a great success! THANK YOU EVERYONE for a great show!
We had dance music (lots of people were swinging their hips), we had many winners and we had fun! For fundraising we sold cut roses in vases, mini roses and silent auction. Our display boards educated the community about our work with the roses in Lawrence Scott Park Rose Garden and ‘Rose Care.’ A big thank you to two of our newest members, Peter and Julie Diaz, who created the music soundtrack. They toted boxes and boxes of vases and supplies between the storage unit and the com-munity center. Previous to the day of the show, they spent many hours organizing the boxes of vases according to size and shape and this allowed the entry process to run smoothly. Lots of visitors strolled the rows of roses with smiles on their faces—not only admiring the beauty of the roses but also the incredible aroma which filled the air. I am truly humbled by all the work and positive attitudes our members and families displayed. What a great community service we pro-vide while we educate spectators and share our love of the Rose with them! A special Thank You to Janet Bryant and her 30 years of doing the awards at the shows and for creating the rose show results pages 4-7 in this issue of the Rose Herald. Helen Newman was in charge of the lunch—and it was fabulous! Thank you, Helen! Every one walked away happy and full! And our heartfelt thanks to a gentleman who assisted in the clean up process and collected post-show roses to place at gravesites for Memorial Day. Last year he placed roses on 30 graves and was grateful for the roses from this year’s show. The outreach of our show continued in a special way.
TCRS JUNE 2016 Rose Show Wrap Up by Show Chair JoAnn Brehm
Dorothy Campbell, our very own ‘Queen of Show” Photo happily submitted by JoAnn Brehm
JoAnn Brehm assisting a customer with cut roses
Sales Display of Cut Roses Educational Display Boards
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Like human beings, each rose is a special individual. Today, we will talk about how to treat roses as individuals, as well as how to meet their universal needs. ONE UNIVERSAL NEED IS WATER. The Mid-Columbia Basin desert is in the throes of a hot, dry spell — with temperatures exceeding 100 degrees. We were watering 30 minutes twice a week when temperatures stayed in the low seventies. Now, four 30-minute applications of city water per week may be needed. Check by digging six inches down outside the drip line of any bush that shows crisp, tan leaves…and change your water-ing plan to keep the soil damp but not soggy. Roses growing in pots often need water twice a day. We held our rose show on May 28, a month after prime bloom — in fact, many Tri-City roses are in their second bloom cycle. Our show was saved by flowers brought to us from non-local Pacific Northwest rosarians. After each bloom cycle, it is time to pay special attention to our plants with judicious pruning and fertilizing. This is a great opportunity to look at roses as individuals. Bend the “rules” a little. Don’t prune back to the first five-leaflet leaf on a new miniature rose. It needs every healthy leaf possible so it can perform photosynthesis and become strong. Simply snap off the bloom. Likewise, feel free to prune established tall, vigorous plants down to where you can see more than rose bottoms when they bloom again. One “rule” holds true for nearly every plant. Get rid of the jumbled thicket in the center of the bush. Clearing out the center allows good air circulation, cuts down on disease, and removes a hiding place for unwanted insects. Tidy the rose bed after pruning. Leaves and branches with spots and mildew must go into the garbage can, not the compost pile. Wipe pruning tools with Lysol after dealing with infected roses. BEFORE FERTILIZING, WATER. AFTER FERTILIZING, WATER AGAIN. Organic fertilizers are better for all soil organisms that support the roses’ roots. Try products that include alfalfa meal, worm castings, humus, liquid fish, seaweed, dry kelp meal, and crab shell. Bring the mulch up to 3 inches after fertilizing. It’s good if you have weeded the area you are mulching. Mulch conserves water. Water conservation in blistering hot weather will bless you with live roses after the heat subsides. Forceful blasts from your water wand will knock off mites and aphids. Repeat at least twice a week. Beneficial insects will be dislodged too, but not hurt. Never buy a general “kills all” insecticide. There are far more beneficials pro-tecting and pollinating your bushes than there are pests eating them. Snails have beautiful shells. and I don’t enjoy killing them. However, a row of hosta sits side by side with my rose bushes, so more than hosta is eaten. I use an organic product that reduces the snail and slug population — Bonide’s “Bug & Slug Killer.” It also controls earwigs, cutworms, sowbugs, pillbugs and crickets for up to 4 weeks. The weather is HOT and not conducive to mildew and leaf spot, so it’s okay to stop spraying for these deformities until the seventies come again. When they return, you can try organic GreenCure Fungicide (active ingredient potassium bicarbonate) or neem oil. If you can bear the heat, step out and smell the roses!
June Rose Garden By Norma Boswell, Master Rosarian
While the monthly Rose Whisperer and his articles are typically found here on the last page of our newsletter—we regret to inform you...he needed a well-deserved break! Harlow does an amazing job for our society—and to pay tribute to ALL he does would require all the pages of an entire newsletter. Here are only a few of the things he does: facilitates the care of our Lawrence Scott Park Rose Garden (invigorating but sometimes backbreaking work), writes the monthly President’s Message and Rose Whisperer, supplies door prizes at meetings, heads up the Pacific Northwest District Photo Contest, and judges rose horticulture throughout the district. Harlow, you are deeply appreciated by TCRS members — and honored by the Rose Bulletin Committee of the American Rose Society. One of your Rose Whisperer articles has just been chosen to receive an Award of Merit from the ARS. Way to go, Harlow!
“The ARS 2015 Bulletin/Newsletter Contest Award is hereby awarded to Harlow Young for the article ‘Chevet’/’Chevette’ Rose, Parts 1 & 2 as published by the Rose Herald.”
This article is found in the archived copies of the Rose Herald on our Tri-City Rose Society website (click link on page 1). Complete story in January and February, 2015 issues.
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President, Harlow Young, CR 3218 W 2nd Ave, Kennewick, WA 99336 (509)735-3481 [email protected] Vice-President, Jim Campbell, MR 1307 Maple Lane, West Richland, WA 99353 (509)967-2606 (NOTE: Dorothy Campbell is a MR) [email protected]
Treasurer, Bob Louie, 20 N Jefferson St, Kennewick, WA 99336 (509) 531-5727 [email protected]
Secretary, Facebook Manager, Membership Chair Katie (Dickenson) Henderson 3611 W 15th Ave Unit 4, Kennewick, WA 99336 (509)521-7551 [email protected] Education Chair, Richard Kerkof, MR 4002 Meadow View Drive, Pasco, WA 99301 (509)547-1860 [email protected] Rose Herald Co-Editor, Jo Angelos, 719 S Yelm Pl, Kennewick, WA 99336 (509)586-0857 [email protected] Rose Herald Co-Editor, Norma Boswell, MR 465 Mateo Court, Richland, WA 99354 (509)375-0567 [email protected]
Webmaster, Nancy Foster-Mills, 1537 Adair Dr., Richland, WA 99352 (509)528-9083 [email protected] and www.owt.com/rosesociety JoAnn Brehm, MR, 1113 Saddle Way, Richland, WA 99352 (509) 627-0577 [email protected] Tom Miles, CR, 118 Bremmer St, Richland, WA 99352 (509)627-7003 [email protected] Helen Newman, [email protected] 102703 E Vaca Rd, Kennewick, WA 99338 (509)627-0880 Hard Copy Distribution, Adam Diaz, First Fruits Accounting, (509)308-8005 [email protected] TCRS E-Distribution, Janet Bryant, (509) 627-2687 [email protected]
Summer Garden Meetings June 25
Northland Rosarium Spokane, WA
See Details On Page 3
July 25
Home of Harlow & Linda Young
3218 W 2nd Ave Kennewick
August 29 Lawrence Scott Park
Rose Garden
September 29 Fall “Show of Color” Sandburg Events Center
West Richland
October 24 End of the Year Banquet
Co-Editor, Norma Boswell Co-Editor, Jo Angelos 719 S Yelm Pl Kennewick, WA 99336
