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UNE OSE Volume 30, Number 6 NewsletterR of the Southampton Rose Society, October – November 2006 D An American Rose Society Affiliate

THANKS TO YOU — SRS HAD A GREAT YEAR!!! Inside this issue:

by Adeline Christie Thanks to you SRS had a 1 Working alongside a group of Board members, who bring their own individual talents great year!!! and skills to each meeting, has made the first half of this Presidency a very gratifying experience. Being of the same mind, we’ve been able to make great strides and SRS Photography 3 accomplish many of the goals we set for ourselves at the beginning of the year. Competition Winners The website, which will be the hallmark of the SRS, will be up and running within the next two to three months. It will not only be a source of background and historical information on the Society, but will also provide information on the SRS Rose Ready, Get Set, Grow! 6 Garden, community participation activities, membership information, calendar of events, the newsletter, on-line shopping and rose culture information. In addition to marketing a new line of SRS branded merchandise for on-line shopping, we will also TIPS 7 be able to sell advertising space. This will provide additional income, supplement our fundraising efforts and insure a bright future for the SRS. ARS Gift Membership 7 (Continued on page 2)

Suggestions from insert Bob Sabin

Contributing Editors:

In every issue: Adeline Christie Judy Hetzel Gloria Kaye Pat Shanley

— Photo by Diane Vahradian

DUNE ROSE Photography Competition winners (left to right) Nancy Rollins, Chrystl Meszkat and Nicholas Kirkbride line up with Best In Show winner, Harvey Feinstein, Adeline Christie and Nancy Marr. (see pages 3, 4 and 5 for who won what!)

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THANKS TO YOU — SRS HAD A GREAT YEAR!!! (continued …)

Our Annual Meeting was an opportunity to review this Vahradian for her expert and year’s program highlights: beautiful photo coverage of all our APRIL served out one of the best instructive events! Pruning/Rose Care Sessions ever, with expert rosarians The President’s Award went to Dozie Peter Bertrand, Johnette de Frietas and Harvey Feinstein and Dennis Sheahan for their doing the demos and Q&A’s, followed by refreshments incomparable good work for the provided by Dozie and Dennis Sheahan. SRS. They both serve on the The MAY Breakfast Forum – free to members with Hospitality Committee with Dozie as guest speaker Nancy Peters was enthusiastically Chairperson, and Dennis also sits on received, and Gloria Kaye was awarded the first ROTY the Board of Directors as Financial VP and Treasurer. Award for her extraordinary service to the SRS. JUNE’s Judy Hetzel was recognized for her work as Program Rose Day/Annual and Rose Art Competition, Chair for the last several years; she will be stepping introduced by Lance Brilliantine, was a lucky day for down next year, when she leaves the area to join her member Martha Campanella who walked away with the family on the West Coast. We will all miss Judy and prize money in the Art Competition’s Amateur Class. wish her good luck! Lee Packman has stepped up to be JUNE also presented the Second Biennial Cocktail Party the new Program Chair. Fundraiser hosted by Carole and Fred Guest, which was Peter Bertrand was honored with the American Rose a success story in spite of a “storm of biblical Society’s Bronze Medal of Honor, which is one of the proportions”. It showed the mettle of SRS members, who highest honors given to a member, for his work in were determined that the show must go on! And so it did educating people on rose culture and promoting the netting $43,000. ARS. Peter was also named Chairperson of the SEPTEMBER’s Garden Party and Photography Compe- Education Committee. tition hosted by Christl and Kenny Meszkat was An Audit Committee was formed and will be comprised spectacular with the gardens in full late-summer bloom. of three members: Carole Guest, Warren Hamer and Harvey Feinstein walked away with the silver trophy for Dennis Sheahan, who will work in tandem with an Best in Show. A week following the Garden Party, five independent accounting firm to review our financial members represented the SRS at the LIRS/ARS District records on an annual basis. Convention in Plainview, LI and met the newly installed Next year’s programming will include the Pruning/Rose ARS President, Steve Jones. Member Pat Shanley was Care Session in April; the Free May Members’ Breakfast also installed as NY District Director. Forum; May Demonstration in the SRS on In OCTOBER guest speaker at this year’s Annual planting mini for school children; June Rose Meeting/Luncheon was Bob Sabin, who has garnered Day/Annual Rose Show and Rose Art Competition; June more silver trophies In one day than any of us will do in Members’ Bridgehampton Garden Tour; June a lifetime with his prize-winning hybrid teas. Sabin, who Southampton Garden Tour Fundraiser; September shared some of his never-before-revealed-secrets to Garden Party and Photography Competition at the home growing the perfect exhibition rose, described his of Lee and Elliott Packman, and the October Annual compulsion for finding the “fountain of youth” elixir, Meeting/Luncheon with Guest Speaker PETER and noted his “hobby bordered on insanity”! It was an BEALES, PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL NATIONAL interesting, informative and amusing lecture! (see insert: ROSE SOCIETY IN THE UK, author, hybridizer and SAGE SUGGESTIONS FROM BOB SABIN) the foremost authority on growing and landscaping with Good news from Editor Lyn Hamer – DUNE ROSE will roses. have three issues in color next year and will feature Finally, I’d like to welcome new members Ellen Herman world-class contributing editors for a new column – of New York City and Southampton, Posie Heisig of “Celebrities of the Rose World”. Ray Reddell, former East Hampton, Peggy Ianacone of Southampton, owner of Garden Valley Ranch in Petaluma, CA, Catherine O’Keefe of Ardsley, New York and Michael Marriott, Representative of David Austin Roses Southampton and Christine Phillips of Southampton. in the UK and Stephen Scanniello, former curator of the Our current membership stands at 170! Cranford Rose Garden in the Brooklyn Botanical Garden See you in the Spring! and now President of the Heritage Rose Society have agreed to participate. A special thanks to Diane

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First Place — Blue Ribbons

— BEST IN SHOW — Harvey Feinstein Class II Rose Garden — Corner Roses

Nancy Marr Nicholas McBride — Class I Single Rose — — Class III Freestyle — Centiflora Mucosa Roman Roses

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Second Place — Red Ribbons

Nicholas S. Kirkbride — Class II Rose Garden —

Nicholas S. Kirkbride Adeline Christie — Class I Single Rose — — Class III Freestyle — Rosa Molineaux Kathryn Morley and Sally Holmes

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Third Place — Yellow Ribbons

Nancy Rollins — Class I Single Rose — Abraham Darby

Harvey Feinstein Christl Meszkat — Class III Freestyle — — Class II Rose Garden — Nature mort — No Return! My Rose Garden

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READY, GET SET, GROW! A START-UP GUIDE L ATE SUMMER ROSE CARE

by Pat Shanley, ARS Master Rosarian & Horticultural Judge, President, Manhattan Rose Society In the blink of an eye summer is gone, autumn is here ♦ Spray and Fertilization – Make a note of what you and the time has arrived to take stock of “what worked used this year as pesticides, the intervals at which and what didn’t” in your garden. This summer I chose you sprayed and how effective it was. Also note any once again not to spray any chemicals. Now I walk unusual insect problems. The same holds true for through my garden to survey the winners, losers and your fertilization program. You should not apply any those roses I just can’t live without. fertilizer at this time of the year. The last application With a no-spray policy, I continually seek out the most should have been in August. If you missed it, you disease-resistant roses. Here are some that I highly can apply a granular fertilizer sometime in January. recommend: It will be too cold for the fertilizer to work at that time, but it will be there and ready to go when the ♦ “Pink Knockout” turned out to be every bit as ground thaws and warms up in March, not to disease resistant as the original “Knockout.” This mention it will have been well watered in over the appropriately named rose was totally clean, bloomed winter. abundantly, with a quick equally abundant rebloom. Not even the scorching heat in August slowed it ♦ Water, Water, Water – Remember to continue to down! water until the ground freezes. Keeping your roses well watered will give them a better chance of ♦ “Lions Rose” was another winner, hybridized by W. surviving the winter. If you do not have an irrigation Kordes & Sons (available from Roses Unlimited). It system, consider one for next year. Make a note also is extremely disease resistant, succumbing only in on how often you watered and when. Were there the last week or so to minimal Black Spot. It is a areas of your garden that required more water than very double, apricot blend, fragrant with others? a decorative form and of medium height. ♦ Established Roses and New Additions – Make a ♦ “Playboy,” a red blend, mildly fragrant floribunda, note of all of the new roses you planted this season. is one of my favorite roses. I grow it in bush form Also note which of your roses performed well and and as a standard (tree rose) - very clean, blooms which did not. If you have a bush that has languished well and repeats well. for three years or more, chances are it will never be ♦ “Tahitian Sunset” (2006 AARS winner) is a a stellar performer. Unless you just can’t live fragrant apricot pink hybrid tea, very disease without it, consider removing it and replacing it with resistant, of beautiful exhibition form and grows one of the newer varieties or – if you are an OGR quite tall in my garden. fan, as I am – with one of the older beauties. ♦ “Constellation,” a fragrant, white, almost thornless ♦ Companion Planting – If you planted companion mini, of exhibition hybrid tea form, is also a winner. plants with your roses, note which of them will be I grew it as a standard and, although it had some worth planting again next year. An excellent source black spot, it has become a rose I can’t live without. of information on companion plants is ROSE The same holds true for “Moonlight Scentsation,” a COMPANIONS – GROWING ANNUALS, white-blend (lavender) very fragrant miniflora, PERENNIALS, BULBS, SHRUBS AND VINES WITH “Popcorn,” a white single mini, grown as a ROSES by Stephen Scanniello. standard, “Sleeping Beauty,” a salmon pink, We have the whole winter ahead of us to look through fragrant miniflora of exhibition hybrid tea form , the many catalogues that will soon be arriving. That’s “Double Gold,” a fragrant yellow blend miniflora part of the beauty of living in this area. We can plan our also of exhibition hybrid tea form and “Green Ice,” gardens and dream of next spring. And if you get tired of a white mini, decorative form, with a spreading the catalogues, there is a wonderful novel titled THE habit. BLUE ROSE, AN ENGLISH GARDEN MYSTERY by Was Your Method of Rose Care Successful? Anthony Elgin… a good read for a snowy afternoon! ♦ A Gardening Journal is well worth the effort. Just See you next year! a simple note or two to remind you of what you did and when, can help you make any necessary adjustments for next season.

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TIPS realtor’s office. We also believe that your generosity should be Here's your chance to share products/procedures formally acknowledged and so all donors will be that make your garden/gardening better! Snail mail listed every month on our Contributions Page in to our PO Box or email [email protected]. American Rose.”

♦ Gloria Kaye says … Christmas is around the We can grow this wonderful society. We can take corner and “THE ROSE SANTA” suggests its future into our own hands. We can share the joy shopping the following websites for your of growing roses with our family, our friends and favorite rosarian: members of our community and we have made it easy to do so, at www.ars.org, or by phone at ♦ www.annagriffin.com – Decorative papers, 318.938.5402, ext.111, or 800.551.8692. Gift floral file folders, stationary, etc; memberships are tax-deductible donations. ♦ www.womansworkgloves.com – A large We look forward to hearing from you. selection of gardening gloves, especially for the rose enthusiast; Pat Shanley ♦ www.rosegardenstore.org – This is the on- NY District ARS Membership Chairman line boutique for the Portland Rose Associate Chairman ARS Membership Committee Society. Here you will find rose-related Chairman ARS Marketing & Publicity Committee items for the Christmas stocking;

♦ www. michaeldesignworks.com – Several SOUTHAMPTON ROSE SOCIETY rose items including beautiful rose note PO BOX 1022 card; SOUTHAMPTON, NY 11969-1022 [email protected] ♦ …and, go to www.yahooshopping.com and type in rose-scented candles. OFFICERS Happy Holiday Shopping! President Adeline Christie 1st Vice President, Rose Show Chairperson Gloria Kaye ♦ Nancy Marr says … The Heritage Rose Foundation’s journal, ROSA MUNDI, is just 2nd Vice President, Membership Chairperson Nancy Rollins great. Comes out three times a year. Website: 3rd Vice President, Rose Day Chairperson Lance Brilliantine www.heritagerosefoundation.org. Financial Vice President, Treasurer Dennis Sheahan Secretary Cornelia Bostwick ARS Membership Chair Nancy Rollins GIFT MEMBERSHIP Program Chairperson Judy Hetzel SRS Rose Garden Chairperson Helga Dawn-Frohling In the August issue of American Rose, President Dune Rose Editor Lyn Hamer Marilyn Wellan issued a call to all ARS members to Publicity Chairperson Carole Guest give a gift membership. In her President’s Message ADVISORY BOARD she asks: Peter Bertrand “If you knew that there was one very simple (and Cynthia Brodsky painless) thing we could all do that would remarkably change the dynamics of the American Joy Cordery Rose Society; one thing that would improve the Spencer Dworkin financial picture, and enable ARS to broaden the Harvey Feinstein services we provide and insure our future, would Jane Indoe you take that step? I hope so. If every member would give a gift membership to The Southampton Rose Society, established in 1976, is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization affiliated with the ARS, you would be introducing thousands of new American Rose Society. members to the joys of rose growing, and we could double our membership rolls. Gift memberships DUNE ROSE is the newsletter of the Southampton Rose Society, which is published March through November. will be welcomed by a family member, neighbor, church friend, local society member, or local EDITOR: LYN HAMER library. The award-winning American Rose will be PUBLICATION DESIGN & LAYOUT: SERRA YAVUZ seen by a lot of people at your doctor’s, dentist’s or

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SRS 2007 PRELIMINARY CALENDAR

APRIL 14 — PRUNING/ROSE CARESESSION Rogers Memorial Library/SRS Rose Garden

MAY 12 — MEMBERS’ BREAKFAST FORUM Guest Speaker Harvey Feinstein

MAY 19 — CHILDREN’S EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM Rogers Memorial Library/SRS Rose Garden

JUNE 22 — MEMBERS’ GARDEN TOUR, Bridgehampton, NY

JUNE 23 —ANNUAL ROSE SHOW/ ROSE ART COMPETITION Rogers Memorial Library

JUNE 30 —SOUTHAMPTON GARDEN TOUR FUNDRAISER

SEPTEMBER 9 — SRS ANNUAL GARDEN PARTY & PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION AWARDS Home of Mr. & Mrs. Eliott Packman

OCTOBER 13 — ANNUAL MEETING/LUNCHEON Guest Speaker Peter Beales, President of the National Rose Society in the UK

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