PRINTPOST APPROVED VOL 44 No. 417 3 April, 1 May, 2020

Sydney Regional News

Inside this issue Monthly meetings Change of venue are held on the first Friday ❀ for our May meeting of each month starting at ❀ Pat & Jim tell us 8 p.m. about their visit to at the Rose Shows in Newington Adelaide and New Community Centre, Zealand Cnr Avenue of ❀ Favourite fragrant Europe & Avenue of Asia Roses from Green Newington ❀ E nursery Visitors are Roses from the Welcome ❀ 1950s early 60s

NO meeting on Friday, 3 April See you (maybe) at 8 p.m. on Friday 1st May, 2020 at Epping Community Centre Please check before the meeting

PATRONS CHAIRMAN’S MESSAGE Sandra & Graham Ross CHAIRMAN Jacqueline Tweedie Nice to hear the rain, I hope it continues 1 Christel Ave., Carlingford 2118 over the following months to deeply VICE CHAIRMAN Keith Baron  (02) 9484 0236 replenish the moisture content of the soil. SECRETARY Kerry Hurst Our meeting set down for April is Haberfield, 2045 Home: 9799 9218 cancelled. May is a little further into the TREASURER future so a decision will be made closer to Greg East 1st May regarding how the coronavirus is 12 Park St. Merrylands 2160 9897 5052 effecting the population. You are advised to COMMITTEE: check before the May date by phoning any Shirley Baron  9484 0236 committee member or myself on 9872 1862 Jim Cunningham 9659 6664 Pat Cunningham or email… [email protected]. (the .au Michael Brook 9636 4705 is needed) Robyn East 9897 5052 positions still vacant APPOINTEES TO STATE The Royal Easter Show has been cancelled COUNCIL which means other Autumn Rose shows Keith Baron may also be cancelled. Concord Garden Greg East Robyn East Club’s Autumn show is cancelled. ALTERNATE APPOINTEES Shirley Baron Our February meeting was cancelled at the Jim Cunningham HONORARY AUDITOR last minute owing to torrential rain late on Vacant at present the Friday afternoon. All members on email HONORARY SHOW SECRETARY were sent a notice about the cancellation, if Keith Baron SHOW BENCH STEWARD you went along to a closed hall please Pat Cunningham accept our apology. I hope you did not LIBRARIANS suffer flooding at your home while the Ted & Meryl Morphett  (02) 4735 3668 water-table rose. PUBLICITY OFFICER Vacant Gary Wootton’s subject at the March EDITOR SYDNEY ROSE NEWS Jacqueline Tweedie 9872 1862 meeting was interesting as he spoke about email: [email protected] letting the bees do their thing of pollination (Closing date for contributions is and waiting for the hips to form and ripen Monthly Committee meeting) before planting one seed to a pot and waiting for a surprise bloom, in Oxford Street which is on the maybe one or two years. Gary opposite side of the railway line. has registered a rose There is a map included in this called ‘Jim’s Gift’ a yellow colour magazine to guide you. Street at this stage of development. parking is available. See picture this magazine. Gary’s speaking notes have also On Friday 1st May at our next been included. scheduled meeting Pat and Jim’s photos from their trips to the Colin Hollis, National and State Australian Championship and President, was welcomed at the New Zealand , will March meeting. He spoke about highlight the difference between the World Rose Conference in the various and the 2021. The last World way roses are displayed. Conference in Australia was in 1988 so they do not get to The Australian Championships Australia very often. Invited will be at Kiama this year and speakers often come from next year 2021 the World Rose overseas where they are in Conference will be held in demand to speak on their topic Adelaide, South Australia. The concerning gardens or about 2020 event at Kiama has been growing or breeding roses. In advertised in the latest NSW the past authors on various Rose so you may need to topics relating to gardens and consider booking your roses have been the invited. accommodation now if you want to stay down around the There will be a change of venue area for a couple of days. Join in for the May 1st meeting. Owing the event and find out about to building maintenance at growing roses in the United Newington Community Centre Kingdom and what can be we will be meeting at the achieved by organic gardening. EPPING COMMUNITY CENTRE, 9 Oxford St, Epping. I In the last magazine you were was wrong about where I said asked to offer any suggestions the hall was at the March towards the 2020 December meeting so please note it is in meeting, do we need to make cause of the incidents. The next changes? Sunday morning, a few minutes before 11:00 a.m., all of the Our Spring Show will be held in doctors and nurses nervously conjunction with Macarthur waited outside the ward to see Regional at the Mater Dei for themselves what the terrible Catholic School Annual Fete day phenomenon was all about. at Cobbity on Sunday 18th Some were holding wooden October, a week prior to the crosses, prayer books and other Australian Championships at holy objects to ward off the evil Kiama. spirits. Just when the clock struck 11:00, Fernando If you are not feeling well I hope Rodriguez, the part-time Sunday on behalf of all members that sweeper, entered the ward and you will have a speedy recovery unplugged the life support and we hope to see you at one system so he could use the of our meetings soon. vacuum cleaner. Jacqueline Still TH INK Y OU A R E TH INK Y OU A R E having a bad day??? HAVING A BAD DAY? A woman came home to find In a hospital's Intensive Care her husband in the kitchen Unit, patients always died in the shaking frantically, almost in a same bed on Sunday morning, at dancing frenzy, with some kind about 11:00 am, regardless of of wire running from his waist their medical condition. This towards the electric kettle. puzzled the doctors and some even thought it had something Intending to jolt him away from to do with the supernatural. the deadly current, she ran outside and grabbed a handy No one could solve the mystery plank of wood and smacked him as to why the deaths occurred with it, breaking his arm in two around 11:00 a.m. Sunday, so a places. Up to that moment, he worldwide team of experts was had been happily listening to his assembled to investigate the iPod. L ook ing for som e inspir a tion on wha t r oses to choose for your 2020 planting year ?

Brigitte from Green E Roses gives these suggestions.

“We do grow over 600 different varieties of roses and we are finding it difficult narrowing it down to one or two favourite ones. Different roses perform different functions, a rose planted in Paddington is going to be different to one covering a shed in Dubbo. So we have come up with these (not in order of preference):”

‘Chinensis Mutabilis’ – heritage rose, blooms are single and change colour as they age, flowers almost continuously.

‘Parole’ – a , long stems, big blooms, good fragrance and repeat flowers fast, ticks all boxes for us ‘Green E Rose’ – Australian bred by Richard and Ruth Walsh, unique green blooms, named in honour of our nursery.

Green E Roses, 400 Galston Road, Galson 2159. (02)9653 1745 [email protected]. www.greeneroses.com.au ROSES FROM THE FIFTIES

Most of you know that ‘Mr Roses’ aka Don Campton worked from February, 1945 – August, 1975 at Hazlewood Bros’ Nursery at Epping. I asked him what was selling at this time of year in the early 1950s. “Remember”, he said as he instantly pulled up the names of roses from his memory, “the 2nd World War finished in 1945, so stocks were still being built up.”

Most of the orders were received and dispatched by mail and many orders were along the lines of ’12 roses. Please include perfumed ones’, or ‘Please send 12 of your best rose bushes’ thereby leaving the choice to Don and fellow workers. They had 27,000 customers on their books, the majority mail order. These roses were dispatched May, June and July. Folk living in frost affected areas, i.e. Orange, Molong, Bathurst, Canberra etc. received their roses in August.

Those with perfume: ‘Apricot Queen’ ‘Etoile de Hollande’ ‘Rose Marie’ ‘Comtesse Vandal’ ‘Golden Dawn’ ‘Spek's Yellow’ ‘Crimson Glory’ ‘Mrs Herbert ‘Talisman’ ‘Editor McFarland’ Stevens’ ‘Warrawee’ ‘E G Hill’ ‘Queen Elizabeth’

Hybrid tea roses: ‘Coral Pink’ ‘Fashion’ ‘Masquerade’ ‘Diamond Jubilee’ ‘Golden Delight’ ‘Moulin Rouge’

If we were asked for “12 assorted” we’d send 4 of ‘Moulin Rouge’, 4 of’ ‘Golden Delight’ and 4 of’ ‘Mrs R M Finch’.

Roses popular late in the 1950s – early 1960s ‘Buccaneer’ ‘Helen Traubel’ ‘Queen Elizabeth’ ‘Charles Mallerin’ ‘June Bride’ ‘Sutter’s Gold’ ‘Charlotte Armstrong’ ‘Mission Bells’ ‘Tassin’ ‘Chrysler Imperial’ ‘Montezuma’ ‘Diamond Jubilee’ ‘Pink Parfait’ M onth l y sh ow b ench – 2019-20

CUMULATIVE POINT SCORE 2019-20 NOVICE JULY 2019/JUNE 2020 EVA LOUISE TROPHY ONLY Classes 1-10 Class 12 Class 11 Keith & Shirley Baron 21.00 14.25 Michael Brook 13.50 Greg & Robyn East 58.00 26.00 Braidan Swan 16.50 Ailsa Wareham 22.50

No February meeting - cancelled because of the predicted storms. Roses on the March show bench: ‘Bella Rosa’, ‘Bridal Pink’, ‘Diamond Jubilee’, ‘Dwarf Fairy’,’ Emily’, ‘Figurine’, ‘Firefighter’, ‘Flemington Racecourse’, ‘Gray's Blue’, ‘Imp’, ‘It's a Winner’, ‘Joy Delight’, ‘Joyce Abounding’, ‘Kardinal’, ‘Love In’, ‘Man of Steel’, ‘Marie Bashir’, ‘Paradise’, ‘Pascali’, ‘Pink Intuition’, ‘Poetry’, ‘Queen Elizabeth’, ‘Red Intuition’, ‘Robyn’, ‘Seduction’, ‘Sprayer’, ‘St Patrick’, ‘Timeless’.

FLORAL ART Meryl Morphett 9.00

BEGINNERS OR NOVICES Class 11 is expressly for Novices. You are invited to place one stem or cut of any rose variety in this class. A cut carries one bloom and bud / buds or more than one bloom with or without side buds. A stem has one developed flower, i.e. no bud or flower has been removed to encourage growth in the remaining bloom. Any new member can enter into this class.

CONTINUATION One of the three Novelty classes will continue this year ending at our November meeting. A potted plant in a pot up to 30cms (12”) diameter Where is your competitive spirit? ************** Paddy asks, “Mick, how did you get on at the faith healer’s meeting last night?” Mick replies, “He was absolute rubbish. Even the fella in the wheelchair got up and walked out!” FACTORS TO BE CONSIDERED WHEN DECIDING TO START BREEDING ROSES FROM SEED (OPEN POLLINATION OR HYBRIDIZING) Thank you Gary Wootton for sharing your talk with us all.

INTRODUCTION: We are need to mature on the bush for not here to discuss methods of at least 4 months. growing roses by seed as there • Your individual environment. are more methods than I could Geographical Direction of the mention here today and most area to be used. Shade and will depend on the answers you times available. Any changes to give to the questions I will put that environment. to you, tonight. They are freely • Time you have available (as a available on the internet as well hobbyist). Preparation of seeds. as most rose publications and it Watering and time of watering is an individual exploit. seedlings. Pollination should occur early mornings. (if/when WHY: There is nothing better hybridizing). than putting up on the show • Available space (not only bench and winning a ribbon for garden space but seed a rose that you have produced preparation and growing space.) yourself. “WHAT IN YOUR WHY NOW: Up until the end OPINION CONSTITUTES of February is the time to make A TOP QUALITY ROSE”? that decision. Some factors that you should take into account This has a different meaning for when deciding to commence different people but you should your breeding endeavours are as aim to breed a quality rose and follows: the following should be considered: • Good records and markings (this is the only requirement • One consideration is that is common to all breeders) perfume: the date of pollination (approximately). Most rose hips Perfume is hard to assess ‘Jim’s and an area where some Gift’ have great difficulty Some • Other considerations are months disease resistance along ago Gary with heat tolerances Wootton • Available stock (what is presented growing in your garden) Jim with a plant Your approach must also named contain a degree of flexibility, ‘Jim’s Gift’ as the rose recessive genes to thank that give you what you are him for the striving for, are also the same interest taken earlier by him in recessive genes that can also the plant’s beginnings. give you what you are not after. Details of registration Class: Hybrid Tea Breeding roses cannot be ARS Light yellow likened to an artist who can mix Yellow, light yellow reverse, two or more colours on their Moderate fragrance artist’s palette and achieve the Average diameter 5cm required result. Very full (41+petals) The breeder bloom form should always Upright breed using the Medium, matte, best to the best medium green foliage and then hope Height 120cm to for the best. 150cm ********************** Please at least When it is obvious that have an attempt the goals cannot be at growing roses reached, don’t adjust from seed, it is a the goals. Adjust the rewarding activity action steps. Confucius and adds another string to the rosarian’s bow. CULTURAL NOTES (with help from earlier compiled articles)

Having Summer trimmed your sometimes they run out of bushes they will be sending out popular cultivars and want you new growths helped by the to make a substitute to fill your present rain. Water logged order quantity. blooms (buds turn brown and decay) and warm days can cause If you have chosen new plants botrytis. Blooms with botrytis you will need to have prepared blight have brown lesions and the garden spot or bed before masses of gray spores. Flowers delivery at the end of May or may need to be picked ASAP during June or July. The current before botrytis appears on weather conditions are helpful those wet soggy blooms. Cut for the water table but do not off the affected bloom and dig in wet soggy ground - be discard in the bin, don’t add to patient and wait until it begins the mulch. Have you topped-up to dry out before you begin bed the depth of mulch on your preparation. garden to conserve moisture from the rain and help protect Dig down about 50cm at least, your plant’s roots from the cold add some compost plus manure weather ahead? If you live in a in the top 20cms. warmer area then your rose Superphosphate could be spread bushes will still grow steadily in into the lower 30cm. Leave the Autumn and Winter and area for a few weeks to settle. therefore may need some If you have clay soil the easiest fertilizer. and quickest way to get good drainage is to add soil and raise Nurseries should have their the level of the garden bed so 2020 catalogues ready for that the garden is now on top of posting or you can view it on- the clay. Removal of old or line and order your bushes diseased roots is recommended direct. Some reliable suppliers if replanting in the same spot. If are listed in the NSW Rose. intending to move an established You need to order early as bush, still prepare the soil in the FLORAL ART space as suggested. MAY 2020 Modern Arrangement using You may find any unused rose/s only, any embellishments fertilizer in the soil has been washed away but it is better to Think minimal materials with wait until Spring to restart your lots of negative space (open feeding program. We are fast spaces) area with nothing filling approaching the time when you the voids. Filled space is should stop fertilizing in the positive space which is the area Sydney area. or areas containing flowers, leaves, container etc. A Modern Blackspot is still showing up in arrangement is not the same as gardens, so keep using the current trends or preventative sprays. Remove Contemporary Designs. Painted diseased fallen leaves from the embellishments can be used, but garden bed as spores will stay do not use all painted on the soil just waiting for the embellishments, use some fresh right condition to grow. ones too. Leaves can be Powdery mildew appears manipulated by rolling, curving, especially on new growth when cutting, etc. If you roll leaves the days are warm and the make sure the holding nights are cool. Keep up with point/pin/tape is camouflaged. your spraying program. You can make a feature by making a slit and feeding the If considering placing the new point through it to change the bushes in pots then you can also leaf’s shape and surface texture. start the potting mix The container should be vertical preparations now by mixing in a not flat or squat and the colour small amount of of the container should be superphosphate, compost and repeated somewhere in the manures to enhance the arrangement. This will combine purchased potting mix. Leave the container and the the mixed potting mix in an area arrangement. Finished height until needed. should be at least 1½ to 2 times the height of the container. Flowers are not embellishments. ELectr onic Embellishments are all things infor m a tion other than flowers e.g., leaves, highway bark, ribbon, shells, cane sticks, The web address is branches, pieces of polished or www.nsw.rose.org.au rough wood, any man made It has been designed to be object or article. interactive with anyone who locks on from anywhere. FLORAL ART Member information about JUNE 2020 events, Rose Consultants, Start of Winter? Any flowers, photos of various roses from any embellishments. around the State submitted by members. Log in, will be You can answer the question in ‘rmember’ The password is any way you like. Look at what printed in each edition of the you have handy growing in your NSW Rose quarterly. garden and make the choice ***************************** from there. A Modern style of A Pastor goes to the dentist for a set arrangement using bare of false teeth. branches and a single dominant The first Sunday after he gets his deeper flower colour as Winter new teeth, he talks for only eight is dark reds, oranges, purples, minutes The second Sunday, he talks for Autumn is pale deeper reds, only ten minutes. orange or yellow. New growth The following Sunday, he talks for and soft colours or white 2 hours and 48 minutes. flowers would not fit the title. The congregation had to mob him Do not use a white container, to get him down from the pulpit and use one suitable to Autumn or they asked him what happened. Winter colours. The Pastor explains the first Sunday his gums hurt so bad he couldn't There will be more suggestions talk for more than 8 minutes. in the next magazine. Just want The second Sunday his gums hurt to encourage you to think too much to talk for more than 10 minutes. ahead. But, the third Sunday, he put his wifes' teeth in by mistake and he couldn't shut up. DIR ECTIONS TO Oxford Street, head left hand turn just over MAY 1 ST towards the station the bridge, then turn MEETING and the Hall is on the left into Essex Street Epping Community right just before the which is the next set Centre (formerly post office. of traffic lights and

School of Arts) continue as above. If coming along There is no right hand turn at Blaxland Road and Langston Place.

If coming from Macquarie shops heading towards Epping you will need to turn right into Pembroke Street. There is a set of traffic lights with a right hand turn lane and arrow. You can turn right at the roundabout into Essex Street. Blaxland Road cross When coming from If you miss the over Epping Road and Epping station along Pembroke Street turn follow the traffic into Oxford Street the you will need to turn Oxford Street. The Community Centre is left into Essex Street, hall is on the left just on the left hand side make a three point past the post office. just past the post turn in Essex Street office. Street parking The other direction is and cross directly over available. via Carlingford Road Epping Road. At the top of Essex and/or Beecroft Road. Street turn left into If you miss the direct

P INK R OSES Courtesy of the internet

The pink rose. What could be excellent for a hedge or as a more romantic? Well, it's specimen plant. Read about the definitely my favourite coloured lovable Fairy Rose on its own rose. There's a pink rose in just page. about every rose group from the small miniatures to the ‘Bonica’ largest climbers and ramblers. I The beautiful pink rose have gathered together as many 'Bonica' is a multi-award of my all time favourites based winner. It is a Floribunda on colour, length of flowering created by Marie-Louise season, hardiness and disease Meilland. It has charmed the resistance, as I can fit on this world with its hardiness, disease page. But there's one more resistance and long flowering quality: Fragrance. However, period - from spring right I'm not going to leave one rose through to autumn. No one can out just because it may not get a resist this rose. It has a mild 10/10 for fragrance. So I will fragrance and is also available as begin with my all time favourite a climber. rose: the Fairy. The climber is a sport of the original shrub rose type. There ‘The Fairy Rose’ is even a rose which has been This small but sturdy Floribunda developed combining ‘Bonica’ will just keep on blooming and with Iceberg. Amazing! Find blooming. It has little fragrance, out just what 'sports' are on the but it is a real workhorse of a Peace Rose page. Anyone can rose. The pink rose to have in wake up one morning and find a any garden, whether in a garden 'sport'. If you're in luck, it just bed (surrounded by blue or might be a winner. purple and maybe white companion plants), or in a ‘Pierre de Ronsard’ medium sized container. It This gorgeous pink rose is blooms from mid spring right another award winner and through until autumn and is therefore definitely a candidate for your garden. It represents a acclaim for over fifty years. It new breed of roses, called and its parents have a long list of Renaissance or Romantica awards. It is in the Rose Hall roses, developed by the of Fame and holds its blooms Meilland Company to combine proudly up high. It has unique the charm of the old world red canes which help to make it roses with the magnificent a stunning cut flower. The qualities of the modern roses. Queen Elizabeth Rose. Just like David Austin has done in the UK, Meilland has The Queen Mother Rose. done in France. This beautiful Floribunda rose was developed in 1991 by the This rose is one of its brilliant Kordes Company in honour of successes. It even looks like an the Queen's Mother. old Cabbage Rose with its delicate multi-petalled cups. But ‘Princess de Monaco’ this rose has the hardiness and Sublime. A Hybrid Tea Rose disease resistance of the best of designed for royalty. It is highly the modern roses of today. It is fragrant and comes as a shrub a pillar rose which grows very rose and even better, as the vigorously up to 12 feet. Find perfect climber for an archway out all about the Pierre de or a trellis. Read all about it on Ronsard Rose. its own page. It deserves it. Another touch of class. The The Queen Elizabeth Rose Princess de Monaco Rose. This rose is said to be 'the best This rose won't let you down. pink rose ever'. It's certainly 'perfectly elegant' and fit for a The Exquisite New Dawn Queen. It is the first and most Rose. A Wichurana Rambler. popular of the Grandifloras This sublime pink rose is in the which are a cross between a , but it was Floribunda and a Hybrid Tea really 'just' a lucky break for the rose. It was developed by world of Rose Lovers. One day Lammerts in 1954 to celebrate a rose breeder just found it - the Queen's Coronation (in just the one bloom - on one of 1953) and has won world-wide his Dr. Van Fleet roses. He duly cultivated it, and here it is today. garden. It is a tough, reliable One of, if not THE, most Floribunda shrub rose, and as its famous fragrant climbing name says, it is easy to grow. roses of all time. See it on the You won't have many problems New Dawn Rose page. with this delightful rose in a really pretty rose colour. find The Carefree Wonder out more about this pink beauty Rose. on its own page. The Carefree This is another pink rose which Wonder Rose. you may like to choose for your

Fragrant Roses Are a Must in My Garden

When I see a blossom, my first sweet scent, I decided that only response is to smell it. If it has plants with a heavenly rose scent could be a part of my rose gardening. Where do roses get their fragrance? Bob Hatterschide, in a classic article for the American Rose Society, notes that roses get their scent from essential oils exuded from glands on the Dolly Parton Hybrid Tea lower petal surfaces. These oils include no scent, it diminishes my Rhodianol, the essential oil that experience with that flower. has the smell described as “old Roses are no exception. They rose;” Geraniol, the scent of are a “must have” in my garden, geranium foliage; Nerol, a along with perennials and magnolia-like scent; and, annuals. After working in my Eugenol, a spicy fragrance the first blooming year and smelling its wonderfully sometimes described as the Cecil Brunner Climbing Rose scent of oil of cloves.

Describing rose scents Of course each person experiences scents differently, so it is difficult, if not impossible, to use scent in judging roses. Scents have little to do with whether a rose wins a class or not. Hatterschide describes the many types of rose scents. These include flower scents, such as rose or damask, clover, hyacinth, honeysuckle, nasturtium, and violet; fruit scents such as apple, lemon, and raspberry; spicy scents, such as Factors that affect bay, cloves, orris, and pepper; fragrance and other scents such as musk. Lois Ann Helgeson, in another American Rose Society report, discusses the connections between fragrances and rose classes and notes that scents in roses vary by temperature, humidity, and the amount of sunshine. Even the degree to which the blossom is open limits or enhances the fragrance. Rose fragrances also vary by colour.

Individual differences Not all roses are fragrant. Hatterschide and Helgeson note that James Alexander Gamble Melody Parfumee Grandiflora Rose concluded that about 25 percent of roses have little or Article written by Donna Sapp, no scent, 20 percent were Extension Master Gardener Volunteer. Ack Internet highly fragrant, and the remainder fall somewhere in THE BEST DEAR JOHN between. The American Rose LETTER EVER Society award for outstanding A young girl on a year’s training new fragrant roses is course in South Africa, recently appropriately named for received a "Dear John" letter Gamble. The award list is a from her boyfriend back home. great starting point for anyone It read as follows: interested in especially fragrant Dear Mary, roses. I can no longer continue our relationship. The distance between us Personal favourites is just too great. I must admit that I Some of my favourites are have cheated on you twice since ‘Cecile Brunner’, a dainty pink you’ve been gone and it's not fair to climber; ‘Dolly Parton’, a hybrid either of us. I'm sorry. Please return tea that is orange, large, and the picture of me that I sent to you. over-the-top fragrant; ‘Mister. Love, John

Lincoln’, a dark red hybrid tea Mary, with hurt feelings, asked that grows tall and smells like her colleagues for any snapshots heaven; and ‘Fire Fighter’, they could spare of their another red upright hybrid tea. boyfriends, brothers, ex- Just remember, next time you boyfriends, uncles, cousins, etc. think about the perfect flower In addition to the picture of for your sunny garden, try the John, Mary included all the wonderful reward of a fragrant pictures of the pretty lads she rose. had collected from her buddies. There were 57 photos in that To learn more about the James envelope, along with this note: Alexander Gamble Fragrance Award Dear John, visit http://www.rose.org/memb I'm so sorry, but I can't remember ers-only-2/resources/the-james- who the hell you are. Please take alexander-gamble-fragrance- your picture from the pile, and send award/. the rest back to me. Take care, Mary

COMING EVENTS ROSE CONSULTANTS

The following members of the Rose Society of NSW

April Meeting – 03.04.20 Inc. are rose growers of both exhibition (show) & who have kindly agreed to make MEETING CANCELLED available to all members their expertise. If you have

April Committee Meeting – 16.04.20 problems or questions about rose growing, contact the person listed as living closest to your garden. Castle Hill Vet Hospital 7.30 p.m.

May Meeting – 01.05.20 SYDNEY AREA Don Campton, Carlingford, 2118 9871 2025 ONCE ONLY AT THIS VENUE Jim Cunningham, Glenhaven, 2156 9659 6664 Please check meeting is still being held Mark McGuire, Neutral Bay, 2089 9953 3655 Epping Community Centre 8.00p.m. Ted Morphett, Emu Plains, 2750 4735 3668 9 Oxford St., Epping Speaker - Pat Cunningham NEPEAN BLUE MTNS & HAWKESBURY Topic – Australian Championship 2019 Doug Hayne, Emu Plains, 2750 4735 1730 & New Zealand Rose Show Raffle – Potted Australian bred rose HUNTER AREA Floral Art – Modern arrangement using Geoff Johnson, Sawyers Gulley 2326 4937 2635 rose/s only. Any embellishments

`````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` UPPER NORTH COAST Cancelled Ray McDonald, Taree 2429 6550 2216 State Council Meeting – 03.05.20 Macarthur Centre for Sustainable Living ILLAWARRA AREA Colin Hollis, Jamberoo, 2533 4236 0456 @ 11.00 a.m. Robert Curll, Jamberoo, 2533 4236 0158 Judges meeting Same venue @ 9 a.m. MACARTHUR AREA Cancelled Bob Stibbard, Campbelltown, 2560 0425 223 076 `````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` Graham Wright, Rossmore, 2557 9606 5888

May Committee Meeting – 7.05.20 Website: www.rose.org.au Castle Hill Vet Hospital 7.30 p.m. www.nsw.rose.org.au

June Meeting – 05.06.20 This publication is for information of members of Sydney Regional. Newington Community Centre 8.00p.m. This publication cannot be reproduced without permission of Topic – Water irrigation Sydney Regional, Rose Society of N.S.W Inc. (to be confirmed)

Floral Art – Start of Winter?. Printed by The Rose Society of NSW Inc., Sydney Regional, Any flowers, any embellishments. 1 Christel Ave., Carlingford, 2118 The opinions expressed in articles or letters in this magazine are not necessarily the opinions of the Rose Society of New South Wales Incorporated.