RoseLore Volume 4 Number 2 February 2021 Bulletin for the Mesa-East Valley Society Mary Van Vlack, Editor

Contents FEBRUARY MEETING Page 1 – February Meeting Page 2 – Maggie’s Rumblings Our February meeting will be Thursday, 2/11/2021 at 7 pm, via Page 3 – Rose Auction Page 4 – February Gardening Zoom. Sherman Weekes will present our program on mulching Page 6 – Rose Arbor . This topic is especially timely – February is a great month to Page 7 – Profile-Dave Bang apply mulch to our rose gardens. A 3 – 4 inch layer of quality mulch Page 14 – February Rose helps to hold moisture in the soil below and keeps the rose roots Page 14 – Biting the Dust cooler. Page 14 – Internet Ghouls

Page 15 – Membership Page 15- Calendar Without access to the Mesa Page 16 – Join ARS Community College facilities, we continue holding our meetings using Zoom, a popular Officers & Board virtual meeting program that can President– Maggie Holloway [email protected] be used on a desktop or laptop VP-Programs – Lynn Twitchell computer or tablet with access [email protected] to the internet or by smart Treasurer - Bud Morrison phone. If you have not used it

[email protected] before, you might want to Membership – Carole Holkenbrink [email protected] download the program ahead of Recording Secretary - Sherman time at zoom.us. ‘Intrigue’ Weekes [email protected] The link to join the Zoom Meeting is: Corresponding Secretary - Cathy Thiel https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4770043990 [email protected] The Meeting ID: 477 004 3990 Members at-large:

Yvonne Morrison [email protected] If you need help, you may contact Sherman Weekes or Pat Thiel for Cheryl Doan [email protected] assistance in using Zoom. James Racinowski [email protected] Again, we won’t be having a raffle this month, but the good news is PatThiel pat.thiel455 @gmail.com that you can choose your own refreshments and enjoy them Past President LeRoy Brady throughout the meeting. [email protected] Watch for our March meeting when our guest presenter will be ARS President and former Mesa resident Bob Martin.

1 The Rose Lore February 2021 RUMBLINGS FROM THE PRESIDENT

BY MAGGIE HOLLOWAY

Happy New Year!

I have a confession. What a way to start a letter, right? Well, I know it’s January and I know we’re probably looking at another difficult summer again with the way our temperatures seem to climb, but I have yet to prune more than 2 roses in my garden this winter. I know I said last month I would get started, but I just haven’t made myself get out and do it. I have been enjoying an abundance of blooms, taking them to friends and neighbors alike. I have one neighbor that thinks she needs to “trade” grapefruit for the roses I give her, but how much grapefruit can one person actually eat? I bet if I looked right now, I have at least 15 waiting for me. But I digress… The rain has brought out the dandelions and clover, so I have some work to do! No doubt I will finish and will have to turn around and apply mulch. Maybe I’ll cheat and do both at the same time this year. That should be an interesting experiment, but boy, will it save me some time!

I hope you are all well and staying safe as we (hopefully) see COVID numbers starting to level off. I am hoping we will see more research on the vaccine soon – do we know how long it lasts, and are people who get it going to stop wearing masks? It scares me a little to think that people will think it is “safe” because they have had the shots, but now we have different strains popping up around the planet to think about. I am happy to report that the 3 times I have been out to the MCC garden to prune, I do see social distancing at work. I do carry a mask in my work-apron just in case though. Better to be safe, as they say.

Please join us for the meeting on Thursday if you are able. I hope to learn more about mulching from Sherman than I know currently, which isn’t much!

Photos: ‘Maggie (top), “New Year’ (left), and ‘New Year’ reaching for the sky. Editor’s Note: With the exception of the article on Dave Bang, all photos of roses in this issue are by Maggie Holloway, taken in her garden one evening in early February.

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ROSE AUCTION TIME!

In case you haven’t noticed (WHAT??), our annual rose auction is up and running online. If you took a quick look earlier on, you should certainly look again as more items have been added. The auction will be closed to bidding – that is your deadline – on Thursday, 2/11, at 9 pm, AZ time, after our general meeting on Zoom. At present 44 bidders have placed more than 300 bids.

Here is the link if you need it: Mesa Rose Auction

As of Monday morning (2/8), there are 120 items available for bidding including 11 rose care items, 2 trees, 6 climbers, 30 hybrid teas along with lots of floribundas, grandifloras, minis and minifloras. Roses have been donated by Star Roses, Weeks Roses, K & M Nursery, our own Steve Sheard and other sources. There are still plenty of bargains to be found: ‘Beauty Secret’ ‘Bonfire’, Arctic Blue’, ‘Pink Peace’ and ‘Sunshine Daydream’ for a $20 bid; ‘Lady of the Dawn’, Antique’, Showbiz’ and more for a $15 bid. If you truly don’t have space for one more rose bush, you can still score some Captain Jack’s for those chilli thrips, a bottle of Ken Singh’s fish emulsion, or LeRoy’s favorite, Physan. Your newsletter editor is having a blast with this auction from the comforts of home but may have some explaining to her spouse to do when closing time comes.

Some folks have said that going to an online auction is understandable, but they still miss Kyle Burnis with her live auctioneering skills, great sense of fun and Band-Aids. Well, she has come to our rescue, donating gift bag surprises for the auction winners who will receive them with their roses.

All winners’ roses, products, and gift bags will be available for pickup on Saturday morning, 2/20, at Mesa Community College.

We should all thank Ryan Regehr for having the confidence and imagination to give us this auction this year.

Photos: Above, ‘Black Magic’ and left, ‘Maggie Barry’

3 The Rose Lore February 2021 protection, and hat, and consider using a respirator. Your own health is more important than the health of your plants. FEBRUARY IN THE

By Mary Van Vlack

While the work in the rose garden in February is not as intensive as in January, there are tasks that need attention and are best accomplished now. It is not a time to move on to other things and just ignore the roses.

Finish what you started in January. Finish your pruning as soon as possible, and also rake and clean up cuttings, spent blooms, and other garden debris. A clean garden will have fewer problems with insects and diseases.

Planting. Finish planting any new bare-root roses by Valentine’s Day – that should be easy to ‘’Patchwork’ remember. Try to plant any container roses this month as well; we want to give the newly planted Water matters. Watering practices have had to roses maximum opportunity to grow a good root change as our winters have grown warmer. system before the summer heat arrives. Containers may need to be watered more frequently than in previous winters, especially if the Spray for insects and disease. We used to treat temperatures are in the 70’s or higher. This is the the bare canes and beds for the mold spores and ideal time to examine your watering system to be insect eggs that remain, but with our brief winters sure it is working properly, has no leaks or clogs, and rapidly warming temperatures, plants leaf out and is dispensing the appropriate quantity of water. quickly and it is soon time to move on to my You surely do have a watering system. Roses are preferred strategy of prevention and then treatment very thirsty plants, not xeriscape or succulent when prevention fails. Keeping a clean garden free plants like so many of our desert landscape of debris and weeds and spraying down the canes favorites, and they need regular water. Some folks are the first line of prevention. Where it’s prefer a drip system, which is generally thrifty with necessary to use chemicals, I will use one product the water and less affected by evaporation. The at a time, only when I have a specific problem to water from drip emitters comes out slowly and address, and only spraying the parts of the plant generally moves straight down through the soil. It where it will be beneficial. If I must use two will take quite a few emitters to get the broad separate products now, I will apply the pesticide distribution a rose needs. Bubblers are also a good first and then the fungicide a day or two later. Some system for roses and do not result in an excessive folks who prefer organic gardening will use Neem aerosol effect, which wastes water. A spray oil or another agricultural oil for this purpose. If you system such as would be used on a lawn has been decide to go this route, be very careful and read the out of favor for roses, but many rosarians now package directions carefully. Agricultural oils must believe it actually helps reduce the occurrence of be used when the weather is cool; during times of powdery mildew. It will, however, leave white warmer temperatures they can cause burning of mineral spots on the leaves. Our water with its high the canes and tender new leaves. As always, use level of alkalinity and high mineral content is hard great care in applying and storing garden on all plumbing parts, so check out your entire chemicals. Cover yourself with long pants and a irrigation system now. Also, make sure your long-sleeved shirt, closed shoes, gloves, eye controller clocks are working properly. 4 The Rose Lore February 2021 if the horse or chicken has been given mineral Fertilizers. A fertilizer with an organic nitrogen supplements that may make its way into their source such as Berridge’s Rose Food, Millers, or manure and then your soil, giving your plants far Mills Magic can be applied now since the too much of a good thing. The application should organically sourced nitrogen will break down be at least three inches thick. Some folks love to slowly, but other fertilizers should wait until the plants fully leaf out. Without foliage, the roses put coffee grounds around their plants. This can won’t use the nitrogen and you do risk burning the be beneficial, but it tends to compact, so apply no roots and newly emerging leaves; when the more than a ½ inch layer and then top off with three weather is cold the plant also makes little use of the inches of regular mulch. Or use worm castings fertilizer. I start with one application of a granular under the mulch for greater benefit. Mycorrhizae — fertilizer with an organic nitrogen source now. In which contribute to drought tolerance, enhanced March I move to a more diverse and aggressive nutrient availability, and increased plant performance fertilization program. Getting a soil test now is also -can be added now beneath your mulch. a great idea. It should indicate what is currently available to your plants and what you need to Extras. This is also an ideal time to apply what I supplement. Soils vary greatly here in the valley call the Mike Jepson treatment. Essentially it and it is better not to make too many assumptions. involves making four small-diameter holes about a foot deep around the drip line of each plant. Then you pour into the holes triple super phosphate (1/4 cup per plant divided between the holes) and wettable sulfur (1/4 cup per plant, again divided). Those holes can be topped off with compost or manure. This treatment is ideal for established rose bushes that may no longer be as vigorous as you would like. It has saved several plants from the shovel in my garden, and Olympiad just loves it. The phosphate may not be needed every year, but the sulfur is. Many gardeners also apply a drench of Merit dissolved in water and divided into the four holes, a systemic treatment for aphids and possibly thrips. You can actually apply the Merit this way three or four times a year. Other options are to apply a liquid plant stimulant such as SuperThrive (following the directions on the ‘Louise Estes’ container) or alfalfa tea.

Mulch, mulch, mulch. Now is a great time to Pay attention to your roses. Even when you believe your work is done, continue to pay attention mulch your roses; while the canes are bare and the to your roses as they begin to grow again. Walk new growth has not yet begun, it is so much easier through your rose garden several times a week. to work around the plants. Mulch is essential if You may see blind shoots or dead canes that you your roses are to survive the summer heat. It missed and still need to remove. You may see shades the roots near the soil surface, reduces early signs of insect or disease issues that would evaporation, and discourages weeds and grass benefit from early attention. And you will have the invasions. Rock, gravel, volcanic cinders, and that pleasure of watching them rest and then emerge dreadful ground rubber stuff are totally unsuitable from that rest with developing buds, tiny leaves, and will have an effect opposite to what you want, and the vigor of new growth. Enjoy nature at work! pulling the heat into your plants. Suitable choices include well-rotted compost, manure from stabled horses (less weed seed), well-rotted or composted chicken or cow manure, or ground or shredded bark. Watch out for mineral additives in manure – 5 The Rose Lore February 2021 AN IRON ARBOR FOR YOUR ROSE GARDEN

BY STEVE SHEARD

Does your Rose Garden need a unique piece of iron artwork, a unique climbing frame for your roses? My friend, Mike O’Hare, and I just installed an iron Rose Mushroom in the middle of a rose bed with 16 other roses in it. I then planted two climbing roses next to it. ‘Crown Princess Margareta’ on one side and ‘Zephirine Drouhin’ on the other.

We will be looking forward to seeing pictures when it is all covered in bloom!

If you are interested in getting your own unique iron artwork email Mike at [email protected]. Mike even cut rose leaves out of sheet metal to make it a little more real!

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A PROFILE OF DAVE BANG

GIFTED ARTIST, PHOTOGRAPHER AND ROSE HYBRIDIZER

BY ELAINE ORNELAS, [email protected]

Reprinted by permission of the author and editor of Rose Ramblings, newsletter for the San Diego Rose Society

How are rose hybridizers made? What causes them to give birth to a passion for creating new and beautiful roses for all of us to enjoy? Before we start exploring Dave’s hybridizing journey, let’s get acquainted with him. My husband and I sat down for two hours recently for a phone conversation with him and we uncovered the fascinating journey which Dave has had with roses. He was born in San Jose forty-nine years ago and has lived there all of his life (although he does not look his age!). As we look at his life you may begin to see how he developed his artistic background which has become part of his professional life as well as the type of roses he creates. Dave is actually an illustrator in graphic design. He is also a professional photographer. When he was very young his father gave him his first camera. As a family they traveled throughout the west, visiting many of the scenic national parks. In particular Dave fell in love, like so many of us, with Yosemite National Park and its beauty. Yosemite became his ‘second home’ and he would eventually travel there two to three times a month with his Olympus 35 mm camera taking photos of the incredible scenery.

Cathedral Peaks El Capitan

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Dave is also a gifted painter who was inspired to pick up a paintbrush for the first time when he saw Bob Ross on television. He painted in the Bob Ross style for many years in oils and as his paintings became more detailed, he found that acrylic paints were best for his style of painting. He was also inspired by Stephen Lyman, an acrylic painter who was also inspired by the landscape of Yosemite. You can see Dave’s rendition of Lymans’ famous painting Warmed by the View which Dave fell in love with when looking through Lyman’s book Into the Wilderness.

Half Dome Campfire, left, Mt. Clark, below.

Dave sent us a photo which his best friend, Sonya, took of his popular rose ’Swirly Pop’, a beautiful yellow and orange striped miniature. He proceeded to create a painting of that photo. He sent both Sonya’s photo as well as a photo of his painting of it to us and it was nearly impossible to detect which was which, his duplication of the original photo was so well done!

‘Swirly Pop’, left and right. Which is a photo and which a painting?

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Here are several of Dave’s paintings and photographs. For fun I am not identifying them as painting or photograph intentionally to see if you can determine which is which because I myself could not readily see the difference when Dave sent them to me. The code for their identification is on page 13. He is definitely a multifaceted artist!

Lincoln

For Dave, surprisingly, his interest in roses began with a trip to a Home Depot garden department one day many years ago. He happened to see several roses there..... ‘Honor’, ‘Arizona’, ‘Don Juan’, ‘Frivolous Pink’ and he was drawn to the beauty of the blooms. He began to look at roses in other nurseries like ‘Black Magic’ and ‘Sheila’s Perfume’. He really loved the striped pattern of ‘Fourth of July’. He thought to himself, “I wonder if I could produce a bloom with the ‘Black Magic’ color and form, with white or yellow stripes”, and so the journey started.

Dave really did not know where to start with learning how to hybridize. But he realized that he would need to learn how to grow seedlings directly from the seeds that roses produce before adventuring into hybridizing. Ear- ly in his journey, he was volunteering at the Guadalupe Gardens in San Jose where he lived. The San Jose Heritage Rose Garden there is a unique botanical collection of antique and modern roses. After doing some research on growing seeds at the appropriate time of the year, Dave harvested hips from these roses, refrigerated them and planted the seeds from them. He found that if he refrigerated the hips in plastic Ziplock bags the hips would rot and it made quite a mess. So he began to refrigerate the hips in paper bags so that the bag wicks away any moisture from the hips leaving the seeds intact.

His method then was to plant the seeds in a clear plastic 20 inch by 15 inch by 12 inch container with 7 inches of soil and cover it with the plastic lid. (photo at right) The soil he uses is Bumper Crop from Master Nursery or Harvest Supreme. If he planted the seeds in December he placed the container in full sun; if planted in January he found that he has to constantly evaluate the containers based on air temperature and adjust their location to ensure the proper conditions.

9 The Rose Lore February 2021 After several years, he linked up with noted hybridizer Jim Sproul with whom he discussed the best methods for growing seedlings. Jim had built a 4’ x 20’ structure and placed it a greenhouse. Dave built something similar which was a 4’ x 8’ seedling bench and created a greenhouse with a metal scaffolding frame and Sun Selector UVA Clear Green- house Film 6 mil as a covering. The results were so much better with this greenhouse. The temperature outside can get into the nineties in the summer in San Jose and in the greenhouse they can be as high as120 degrees with 60 percent hu- midity so Dave would vent the greenhouse in summer. The greenhouse is not the best environment to sprout seedlings since sprouting requires a cooler temperature, but it is very good for growing seedlings, where warmth and moisture are provided. In the winter he would dig up the seedlings and tag them. He would then place them in one- to three-gallon pots. (See the sequence in photos.)

The Sequence of Growing Seedlings

(note the imbedded dates on the photos) (clockwise from upper left)

• the new seedling bench • seeds planted • seeds sprouting • getting bigger! • and bigger! • the first blooms • seedlings are ready to be moved into larger pots

10 The Rose Lore February 2021 Dave bought a bouquet of ‘Flash Night’ and was drawn to the purity of the white in the stripes and the form. So he began by using ‘Black Baccara’, ‘Black Magic’ and various other rose varieties as seed parents to hybridize with. One of his most beautiful roses is ‘A Night of Magic’, the result of crossing the pollen of ‘Flash Night’ with ‘Black Magic’. It is a striking climbing miniflora with variations of dark red with streaks and flecks of white and coral-pink. He also produced the very popular ‘Swirly Pop’, ‘Swizzle’ and ‘Magical Moment’, all from ‘Flash Night’ pollen. (see photos.) And now Dave has successfully bred approximately 350 varieties of roses and has many more ‘in the wings’ ready to be released.

After breeding many beautiful roses the next big goal was disease resistance. One of the most pivotal points in Dave’s rose breeding program in achieving this goal was when Jim Sproul gave Dave two key roses. ‘Jolene Adams’ for his red crosses and ‘First Impression’ for the yellow ones. These two roses made it possible to achieve the beautiful col- ors and now...disease resistance.

Over the years Dave has realized that people who obtain roses are frequently frustrated by the amount of care that might be required to combat pests and diseases. So he has set out to produce roses that are, at a minimum, powdery mildew free. We all know how frustrating powdery mildew can be in our rose garden so his effort to minimize that fac- tor in the roses he hybridized was important to him. Many of his roses also have good resistance to black spot and

‘Flash Night’ ‘A Night of Magic’ ‘Black Magic’

At some point Dave began to entertain the idea of marketing his roses, since he was becoming more and more successful in the production of some with beautiful striped patterns and colors that he had not seen on the market. Unfortunately his journey into this marketing realm has been fraught with challenges. So many suppliers of roses, especially miniature and miniflora roses have left the business and most of the roses that Dave hybridizes are of these two types. Examples of defunct companies which did produce miniature roses are Tiny Petals, Nor’East and Sequoia. Sadly rose suppliers in general have been suffering for several reasons, but many have difficulty because the market for roses that require minimal care has been rising. He was able to link with Jacques Ferare from Star Roses who is the contact for that company responsible for new rose evaluations, but that effort did not come to fruition. Marketing is a challenging effort for rose hybridizers as many of the big companies have their own in-house hybridizers. After several other efforts with other rose suppliers that did not succeed, in 2019 Dave was able to come to a successful arrangement with our friend Jim Mills of K and M Roses in Buckatunna, MS.

11 The Rose Lore February 2021 Jim has become a friend to many of us for his honor, dignity and help in providing us with roses, especially ones grafted onto a very significant rootstock, ‘Fortuniana’. This rootstock is so valuable to us in the southwest United States because it endures the hot, dry weather we frequently have. Jim and Dave have made a very solid arrangement and now many people from all over the United States are obtaining Dave’s roses from Jim. And everyone has such positive comments about his roses and their beauty. Here is the link to K and M Roses if you would like to obtain one of them: www.kandmroses.com/. K and M Roses also has a listing on Facebook of Dave’s roses that they are offering. www.facebook.com/kandmroses. Dave has also posted most of his available roses with photos on Help Me Find Roses https://www.helpmefind.com/rose/plants.php. We would like to see some of the other large rose suppliers like Weeks, Jackson & Perkins, and Star Roses carry Dave’s roses so if anyone has contact with these suppliers, please pass the word along.

Also, Dave has expressed some frustration to us about one particular habit that all of us have experienced. If a rose is patented, it is illegal to reproduce it via cuttings or any other method for 20 years when the patent expires unless permission is obtained from the person holding the patent. Obtaining a patent for a rose or any plant is an arduous and long process and many roses are not patented. And so people are more than willing to take cuttings from a non-patented rose and create plants, by rooting them, for themselves and their friends and families. Hybridizers will be paid a royalty for each of their created plants sold by the rose supplier, even though that amount is usually very minimal.....often less than one dollar. But when one of us creates ten rose plants to share from one that we have purchased it immediately cuts some of the profit that would have gone back to the hybridizer. It becomes quickly apparent that a rose hybridizer will never be able to thrive from or live off of the profits he makes from a rose sup- plier. But Dave says he would at least like to be able to pay for the supplies, fertilizers, soil, and other needs required for him to continue to hybridize roses since folks are ex- pressing such a desire for him to do so. Without these key ingredients, he will not be able to continue to produce these remarkable roses. It is an unfortunate practice that many of us have participated in. But perhaps now knowing how it affects the actual pro- ducer of the roses we love, maybe we can alter that practice and more often actually buy the plants directly from the supplier.

During our conversation with Dave, we asked him “So what are your favorite roses that you have hybridized?” He had to think a long time before answering implying that there were so many! But here are several of his favorites: ‘Captivating’ a pink and yellow striped miniature that is essentially thornless, ‘Angel Kisses’, a floribunda that is almost all white with dainty pink edges, ‘Unfailing Love’, a scarlet and white striped miniature with white reverse, ‘Dottie’, a very 12 The Rose Lore February 2021 dark almost black and white striped miniature named for Dave’s mother, and ‘Eyes of Fire’, a miniature with yellow petals with red edges. They are all powdery mildew free with good resistance to rust and black spot, always a plus. Two of our favorites of Dave’s roses are ‘Strawberry Kisses’, a red, pink and white striped miniflora and ‘Mango Blush’, an orange and coral-pink blend with a ‘blush’ of lavender around the older petals. Both of these have very good exhibition form lasting forever and are disease resistant!

It is nearly impossible to determine where Dave’s journey will take him. My husband and I met him at an ARS convention when it was held here in San Diego in 2014. We have fostered a friendship with him over the years and he has been an enormous help to us and mentored us in the areas of seed sprouting, rose hybridization, and in other areas of growing roses. When he returned for another convention here in 2018 he was able to come and visit our garden and we were able to show him one of his ‘Strawberry Kisses’ plants that he created which we love. The plant was up to head level and he was pleased that it was thriving and producing such beautiful blooms. We wish him well and hope that his hybridizing career continues on a successful path and we also hope that many of you are able to obtain his roses. They will be a striking addition to your garden.

ANGEL KISSES Floribunda

Code for Dave Bang’s Photos and Paintings: page 7- both are photos of Yosemite; page 8 – Half-Dome Campfire and Mt. Clark are both paintings, ‘Swirly Pop’ on the left is a photo and the painting is on the right; the Lincoln on page 9 is also a painting.

13 The Rose Lore February 2021 FEBRUARY ROSE OF THE MONTH

BY LEROY BRADY

This is ‘Eiffel Tower,’ very fragrant hybrid tea, long stems, from 1963. Years ago it was grown as a florist rose. It is heat tolerant. I grow it in a pot in full sun.

Editor’s Note: If you would like to submit a candidate for rose of the month, a rose that is beautiful and performs well in our challenging climate, send the name of the rose, picture of it, brief description, and your name to [email protected].

‘Eiffel Tower’

ARCADIA COLOR GARDENS

Sadly, we have lost another locally owned nursery selling roses. Arcadia Color Gardens, located on 52nd Street between Oak Street and McDowell Road, was recently purchased by Moon Valley Nurseries. Employees were laid off and remaining stock cleared out. It is unlikely that Moon Valley will set up a nursery for roses at that location.

BEWARE OF THE INTERNET GHOULS

Protecting ourselves from scammers and thieves becomes ever more difficult and we and our security safeguards always lag behind. This has been a regular subject for concern at MEVRS board meetings and among our members. We regularly include email addresses in our newsletters and on our website and consulting rosarians are actually required to make their contact information available in one way or another.

This is a great time to remember some common sense rules for opening emails.

• Do not open emails from strangers • Even if you recognize the name of the sender, check to be sure it is correctly spelled and the email address is the same as in your contact list. • If you inadvertently open one that doesn’t sound right, do not open any attachments. • Do not send money or gift cards even for what sounds like a legitimate charity unless you contacted them first. • Do not give out personal information including phone numbers, address, social security, bank account, credit card or other private numbers or passwords unless you initiated the connection and know you are dealing with someone legitimate. • Take your time, don’t hurry, and pay attention to the details.

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DATE EVENT LOCATION

Feb 6, 2021 CR School – CR Mission, Soil & Water ARS Webinar Feb 11, 2021 MEVRS February Meeting – Sherman Weekes on mulch Zoom Feb 11, 2021 MEVRS Rose Auction Closes Bidding Owl Feb 13, 2021 CR School – Fertilizer ARS Webinar Feb 20, 2021 MEVRS Rose Auction Pick-Up MCC Feb 20, 2021 CR School – Insects & Diseases ARS Webinar

Feb 27, 2021 CR School – Chemical Safety ARS Webinar

Mar 4, 2021 MEVRS Board Meeting Zoom

Mar 9, 2021 CR School – Online Exam ARS Webinar

Mar 11, 2021 MEVRS March Meeting – Bob Martin Zoom

Mar 13, 2021 CR Seminar – Chilli Thrips ARS Webinar

Mar 27, 2021 CR Seminar – Chemicals & Modes of Action (safety credit) ARS Webinar

Jul 30, 2021 ARS 2020 National and District elections ARS Webinar

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