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Seattle Sunrise Crown Princess Margareta Baronne Prevost Julia Child UPCOMING EVENTS Tacoma Rose Society June Meeting An Affiliate of the American Rose Society Thursday, June 20 7PM, Gloria Dei Church Celebrating 100+ Years of Roses Recipient of a City of Destiny Award for TRS Rose Show Volunteer Work at the Pt. Defiance Saturday, June 22, 2019 Jackson Hall on the Multicare Campus JUNE MEETING, JUNE 20, 2019 ALL ABOUT THE ROSE SHOW PNWD Garden Tour June 29th Our June meeting will be just 2 days before our Rose Show. While we talked about Starting at St. George our Rose show at the May meeting and handed out information detailing how to Church in Seattle prepare your roses for the show, we will be giving last minute tips at this meeting. Sign up now! Kerry Tynes, Show Chair will start with a reminder of what will be happening over the next few days. PNW District Fall Conference Bruce Lind will give a brief introduction to the Show Schedule emphasizing October 25 - 27, 2019 opportunities for new exhibitors and people with small gardens. Heathman Lodge Gracie Baker will make a presentation about the Arrangement Section of the Show. Vancouver, WA Bob Rezba will go over the procedure for entering photos and will bring 8X10 mat boards. TRS Annual Picnic Sue DeRome and Jo Martin will outline the responsibilities and opportunities for August 10 learning for those who volunteered to be clerks. John Moe’s Home It is an exciting time of the year and we hope TRS members will bring their roses and photos to the Rose Show. We encourage everyone to come and see the Rose Show. PNW District Photo Contest It is open to the public from noon to 5pm. Deadline PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE September 15, 2019 Matt Hixon, Consulting Rosarian Treats for the June Meeting Charlotte Chalker Welcome rose lovers. Jo Martin May ushered-in some fantastic weather with a bit more sun and warmth. For me, this Jane Michelinie weather signals the time to enjoy the great outdoors in the bountiful Pacific Northwest Jim Olson in a much different way than in the winter months. I’m not alone in this sentiment evidenced by occupied tables outside local establishments, higher rates of visitors at local parks, the volume of laughter emitting from kids’ playgrounds, and roses are starting to beam with color. Everyone is a little bit more hospitable when the sun is shining providing us the opportunity for so much needed vitamin D. In short, the sun is out, moral is high, and life is good!

In the midst of the nice weather, we celebrated Memorial Day, an American holiday observed on the last Monday in May that honors the men and women who died while serving in the U.S. military. Originally known as Decoration Day, it originated in the years following the Civil War and became an official federal holiday in 1971. Many Americans observe Memorial Day by visiting cemeteries or memorials, holding family

Queen’s Herald - Tacoma Rose Society - Celebrating 100+ years of Roses gatherings and participating in parades. Unofficially, it marks the beginning of the Some early blooming roses summer season. John Moe’s Garden Early Observances of Memorial Day began at the end of the the Civil War (spring of 1865). This war claimed more lives than any other conflict in U.S. history and required the establishment of the country’s first national cemeteries. By the late 1860s, Americans in various towns and cities began holding springtime tributes to these fallen soldiers, decorating their graves with flowers and reciting prayers. Did you know? Each year on Memorial Day, a national moment of remembrance takes place at 3:00 p.m. local time.

It is unclear where exactly this tradition originated; numerous different communities may have independently initiated the memorial gatherings. In addition, some records show that one of the earliest Memorial Day commemorations was organized by a group of freed slaves in Charleston, South Carolina (less than a month after the Confederacy surrendered in 1865). Nevertheless, in 1966 the federal government ‘Harlekin’ declared Waterloo, New York, the official birthplace of Memorial Day. Climber, pink blend June is filled with many Tacoma Rose Society activities. The rose garden at Point Defiance Park is blossoming with beautiful colors, which happens to be part of the theme for this year’s Tacoma rose show. By now I am sure everyone has applied their fertilizer and alfalfa and are seeing the benefits of the nutrients that your soil needs for more vigorous growth of roses.

The May meeting on Old , (OGR’s) was outstanding! Thank you, Margret Nelson and Faith Gant. June’s meeting will be focusing on the many ongoing actives that you can participate in for the Rose Show on the 22nd.

In closing, I want to give a sincere thanks to everyone. Without your dedication and “Harison’s Yellow’ loyalty to service, we would not be as strong as we are today. Tacoma Rose Society Hybrid Foetida, deep yellow is in good health because of you. INSPIRE ON!

DINNER AFTER THE ROSE SHOW Kerry Tynes, Rose Show Chairman

Hello everyone, we have a tradition after the rose show of going out to dinner. This year I made reservations at The Old Spaghetti Factory (OSF) in Tacoma at 6:30 PM on Saturday 6/22/19. Please give me a call by 6/5/19 at 253-970-5968 if you're interested in dining with us at the OSF. I need to give the restaurant our total count. “Harison’s Yellow’ POINT DEFIANCE ROSE GARDEN NEWS Margaret Leisner-Master Rosarian & ‘Harlekin’

As the old goes, “June is Bustin’ Out All Over” and that includes the roses at Ron Bryan’s Garden the Point Defiance Rose Garden. The date is fast approaching for the first “deadheading” session of the year and it is set for Thursday, June 27th at 4:00 p.m. The remaining dates are as follows: Wednesday, July 3rd (due to the holiday on the 4th), then every Thursday through and including Thursday, September 12. Mark your calendars for June 27, July 3, July 11,18,25, August 1, 8,15,22, 29 and September 5 and 12th, then plan to join your fellow Tacoma Rose Society members at the garden as they deadhead the roses each week.

Here are some tips to get you ready to join in the fun. Come to the rose garden around 4:00 p.m. on the above dates, equipped with SHARPENED pruners, sturdy gloves (gauntlet style are a great idea), and a small bucket for the clippings, if you have one (we have a few to lend.) There is plenty of free parking nearby. Please dress for the weather. Northwest weather is fickle; it could be cool and ‘A Shropshire Lad’ overcast or quite warm. In either case, remember the sunscreen. Shrub (Austin)

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You will need to sign in at the Gazebo; there will be someone there to greet you and assign you to an area to deadhead. (That is simply removing the faded and spent blossoms so the bush will produce more roses and it will make the garden look its best for the many visitors who come each week.)

Novices and newcomers are welcome too and they will be partnered with an experienced rosarian if needed. After some brief instructions, everyone can be an expert “deadheader” in a short time. It is also a great way to get to know other TRS members and perform a community service at the same time. ‘Ring of Fire’ After the work is completed for the afternoon, all volunteers are welcome to attend the weekly no-host dinner along with their fellow deadheaders at a casual restaurant ‘Intrigue’ nearby. How much better can it get? If you need more information, contact any of the Board members listed on the last page of this newsletter. Please make this the year that you join in the fun at the beautiful Point Defiance Rose Garden!

FOR THE LOVE OF ROSES Ron Bryan

My first memories of roses come to me via my Grandmother’s rose garden at the farm in Benton City. Somewhere in the family photo album there is a picture of me as a baby standing in her garden, in just a diaper, clutching a rose in both hands and pulling it to my nose for a sniff. I loved smelling the roses in Grandma’s garden. I looked forward to visiting Grandma’s house in the summer so I could walk among ‘Gertrude Jekyll’ the rose bushes, mesmerized by the sights and scents. The rose garden was her pride and joy. It was a half-moon shape bed, edged with red and gray cement Shrub (Austin), med pink pavers arranged upright in a saw-tooth pattern. It sat at the foot of her driveway, up against the white fence between the pasture gate and the lawn. She loved lavender and orange colored blooms. She had in her garden many varieties that are still Diane & Jon Belknap’s popular today – ‘Fragrant Cloud’, ‘Tropicana’, ‘Angel Face’ (she always said “Lavender roses are the most fragrant”) and of course she had ‘Peace’, which she said was the finest garden rose ever. She was a hard worker, and she went about her garden tasks robustly and confidently. She’d work the bed‘Oranges in the spring, ’n’ Lemons doing the pruning, and lamenting the loss of a bush or two after a particularly harsh winter. In summer I enjoyed going out with her to tend to the roses early in the morning before the heat of the day. Irrigation was via a baseball sized aluminum bubbler head at the end of the hose, which she moved from bush to bush, ensuring that each rose in her sandy soil was well watered. She dusted her roses to prevent diseases, and she’d dead-head bushes, tossing the spent blooms in a wheelbarrow. I always thought it was a sad waste, the wilted blooms, falling apart, and faded by ‘Charles Rennie Mackintosh’ the sun, destined for the burn pile. But she also collected the most beautiful blooms Shrub for the house. She’d trim each stem, removing excess leaves, nipping the thorns, and she’d carefully arrange and proudly display the resulting bouquet – and that was the purpose of her work in the rose bed.

I inherited the love of roses from my Grandmother. So, it was natural that when I bought my first house, an old brick bungalow in need of a lot of work, I planned to put in a rose garden. My first efforts were strictly by trial and error and I wasn’t quite sure how to go about things. Google hadn’t been invented yet, so with some guidance from library books and nursery men, and a few phone calls to Grandma to ask about specific roses that she loved, I set out to plant my first garden. I planted many of her favorites, and eventually I discovered new roses that I loved – old garden roses, Austin shrub roses, and climbers that she could not grow in eastern Washington, but which thrived here on the west side of the Cascades. I was impatient for results, anxious to see progress from my baby plants. The first half dozen rose bushes that I grew I knew so intimately – I fussed over them, looked at Unnamed white rose them every morning and evening, and I knew the shape of each branch on them. I learned along the way and tended my roses with care, and it was thrilling to watch

Queen’s Herald - Tacoma Rose Society - Celebrating 100+ years of Roses as new leaves appeared, as new canes developed, as they budded and bloomed. I made a very small bouquet of the first couple of blooms in my garden and it seemed an unparalleled luxury. My grandmother and aunties visited my new home, and I was proud to have bouquets of roses in the house to greet them. “Would you look at that!” said Grandma, “I’ve never seen a yellow peony!” She picked up the vase for a closer look, and I said, “That’s not a peony …that’s a rose called ‘Golden Celebration’.” She marveled at it. She said my garden was beautiful, and that was all the affirmation that I needed.

Growing that first garden was when I also learned about my local rose society. I joined that group, and like roses in a garden – new friendships budded and bloomed. I’m thankful for the wonderful community of fellow rose growers and the Orange miniature camaraderie that comes along with our shared interest. We all appreciate the same thing – and we put in our work year round, each season with its own tasks. We Jo & Cliff Martin’s Garden supplement the soil in our flower beds, we mulch, prune, spray, feed and water, bandage the occasional wound, and we get our hands dirty. It’s satisfying work to tend the earth, to care for the bushes, and they in return reward our efforts with a gift of pure beauty. VASES OR VAHZES? Jo Martin, Master Rosarian Vases or vahzes – Container or frog – This artistic experience has me in a fog! Choose a tall one, a fat one – A round or a square- Make a design in a soup dish – Or maybe a pair? Select shiny or glossy? Matte or just dull? My creative juices have just hit a lull. How to deal with the crystal – That Grandma held dear – Can I take it ‘Jo’ to a Rose Show without worry or fear? Use driftwood or weathered – Roots or bamboo? Glue it together or Miniature, orange-pink try a bolt and a screw? (named for Jo Martin, Whatever the choice – I must make it fast! – I’m bound and determined hybridized by Mitchie Moe to win a blue ribbon, at last! Jo Martin, 4/20/90 Selecting the container or vase for a rose arrangement is an important decision. A suggestion is to read the schedule carefully. Some vases fit better in traditional classes for Line, Line-Mass, and Mass. Other vases require a Modern or Abstract container while still other classes suggest the Oriental Manner. In addition, the miniature classes give the designer the opportunity to find petite containers and vases for Traditional, Modern and ‘Jeanne Lajoie’ Oriental Manner designs. Climbing mini, med. pink

‘Festival Fanfare’ Shrub, pink blend

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A person’s collection of vases/containers need not be expensive. One may scout thrift shops for second hand containers that work beautifully. Types to avoid are the heavily decorated vases that are difficult to coordinate with the roses as they almost overshadow the arrangement. Start your hunt now! Have fun!

ASK THE CONSULTING ROSARIAN John Moe, Master Rosarian

Q – I have been watering all of my roses regularly but I do see, in one bed, some wilting of the leaves. All of my beds have good morning sun and have basically had the same care, but this wilting bothers me. Should I water this bed more? Can you ‘Baronne Prevost’ help? A – Wilting of the leaves would bother any rosarian; however there are some things Hybrid Perpetual, med pink you can do to understand and lessen the problem. When a rose is under stress to move liquids from the roots up thru the canes and stems to the leaves and blooms, and it just can’t keep up, you will see wilting. Hot weather often gets the stress started and other factors add to it. Sometimes there are too many leaves for the root structure, which in hot weather will give you wilt. There might not be enuf organics in the soil in that bed and the water just soaks down thru before the roots can pick it up. What you might try first in that bed is to do a simple drainage test. Take a coffee can, cut off both ends, push it down an inch in the bed and fill with water. If the water is gone in less than hour, you need to improve the water retention by adding some organics. Then water this bed well, wait and see if that will ease off the wilting.

Q –When you did the program at the April meeting, you said that we should wait until ‘Gold Heart’ after the first bloom cycle to fertilize a new rose bush. What was the reason for this? Hybrid tea, deep yellow There are some blooms on it now, so am I okay to fertilize? A – You heard right, it is okay to fertilize those new bushes now – you can apply organic amendments to the soil at planting time, but you should not use chemical fertilizer on a newly planted bare root rose until it blooms the first time. Normally this will be about 6 weeks after you plant it. By this time the feeder roots are established, and large enough to withstand the burning that chemical fertilizers can do to tender new roots. In addition, remember that fertilizers are essentially salts, which draw moisture out of those tender new feeder roots, so without adequate water you can burn your roses. In fact, the plant cannot take up these nutrients until they are liquefied. Water well first, fertilize, water well again, and cover the base of the plant with your preferred mulch. Continue with your regular seasonal fertilizing program to insure a safe and adequate food supply.

Q – The other day when getting some photos for Barbara, I saw on a couple of nearby bushes what looked like a frothy white mass. I knew what it was, but thought ‘Asso di Cuori’ that some of you might not know what I was looking at and what to do about it. Hybrid tea, dark red A – What I was seeing is the froth or spittle that the immature spittlebugs (nymphs) use to hide in when they feed on plant tissue. And yes, there are one or more of them inside that froth! To check (if you want), you can gently get them out for a look, as I did for some photos – found a couple with eight! They squish very easily. They pierce the plant stems and suck plant juices, and can stunt some plants, but the damages are minimal, and they can be picked or washed off with a forceful stream of water. The spittle serves multiple purposes in that it; protects from predators, insulates them from extreme temperature, and prevents them from dehydrating. The spittle protects the insects from chemicals. Fortunately, insecticides are rarely, if ever needed. ‘Gold Medal’ Grandiflora, medium yellow

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Q – I spray when needed and never on a windy day, but when I do, I always try to keep out of the drift. I wear a long sleeve shirt, long pants and gloves, but do I really need a respirator? A – The last time I talked about chemical safety, the number of rosarians that said that they do not use a respirator disturbed me. There is no such thing as a safe pesticide! The label on many new pesticides merely indicates do not get into eyes or on your skin, and avoid breathing the vapor or spray mist. Now how can you do this without safety glasses and a respirator? If you can smell your spray, you are breathing it in! Most of us have a number of gray hairs, which indicates that we have been around for a while, and have breathed in a lot of different things. I am sure that our lungs are not like they were when we were 20 either, so why add to that when we know we can do something about it? Some pesticide problems may not show up for many years, and in a way unexpected such that that "route" was ‘El Capitan’ never tested for. But bottom line, each rosarian will do what he or she wants, but Grandiflora, medium red for me – if I were not willing to wear protection, I wouldn’t grow roses!

HERITAGE ROSES NORTHWEST ANNUAL OLD GARDEN ROSE DISPLAY Sunday June 16, 2019 Noon until 4PM The Antique Rose Farm 12220 Springhetti Road Snohomish, WA. (360) 568-1919

PACIFIC NORTHWEST DISTRICT GARDEN TOUR (Editor’s note: Bruce & I have really enjoyed the PNWD Garden Tours. It is so much fun to visit other gardens, especially with a group of friends. ‘Pristine’ Be sure to sign up ASAP before all the seats on the bus are full!) Hybrid tea, white Barbara & Bruce Lind’s The Pacific Northwest District Garden Tour will be on June 29th. Those who have signed up for the tour will meet at St. George Church, 5306 13th Ave South, Seattle Garden at 9:50 – 10 AM and board the luxury coach. We will travel to the Bellevue Botanical Garden “an urban refuge encompassing 53 acres of cultivated gardens, restored woodlands, and natural wetlands.” Then we will head back to St. George and enjoy a delicious lunch. Next we’ll travel to a private garden on our way to the Highline SeaTac Botanical Garden where we will see not only the gorgeous rose garden but the Seike Japanese Garden which was created by Hiroshima designer Shintaro Okada. We’ll return to St. George around 3:00 PM. The tour will again be just $45, which includes lunch of hearty sandwiches, delicious salads, and dessert. If you have questions please call District Director Caroline Fredette at 206-723-7141, email her at pnwdd2018@ gmail.com or just fill out the registration form below. ‘BnB’ PNW GARDEN TOUR REGISTRATION Hybrid tea, pink blend Name______Sandwich Choice ______

Name______Sandwich Choice ______

Email ______phone number ______

Local Society ______Total Enclosed ______

Choose Your Lunch Sandwich: Turkey, Roast Beef, Ham, Vegetarian

Send your registration form and check ASAP to: Caroline Fredette, 3924 47th Ave S., Seattle, WA 98118-1216 The cost is $45, including lunch, check payable to PNW District. Seats are limited, so please act soon! ‘Robert Bruce’ Hybrid tea, medium yellow

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PT. DEFIANCE ROSE GARDEN ARS TRIAL MEMBERSHIP - FREE! 2019 PRUNING DAY I recently contacted Caroline Fredette who is the Pacific Northwest District Director. She said that anyone who has not been an ARS member or who has not had an ARS Trial Membership can take advantage of a free four month trial membership in the American Rose Society. There is also a free e-newsletter “All About Growing Roses”. To see what a trial membership includes, go the the ARS website (rose.org), choose JOIN/RENEW, Benefits, and at the end of that page, Trial Garage Sale Setup Day ‘Complicata’ Membership. If you want to take advantage of this offer, please contact Barbara Lind (contact Hybrid Gallica, pink blend information on last page) and I will send in your information to the ARS. This includes your name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address.

PACIFIC NORTHWEST DISRICT PHOTO CONTEST - 2019

Have you ever thought of entering a photo in the PNW Photo Contest? You have all summer to take gorgeous photos! The roses do not need to be grown by the photographer. If you have any questions or to enter your photos in the contest, contact Harlow Young at [email protected]. Contest Rules 1. You can enter up to eight images per Class. 2. It is preferable (and strongly encouraged) that your photos be electronically submitted in JPEG image format. Alternatively, you can mail prints to Harlow Young, ‘Fairhope’ 3218 W. 2nd Ave., Kennewick, WA 99336. Prints will be scanned and saved into an Miniature, light yellow appropriate format for presentation to the judges and returned, if requested. 3. The photos in Classes 1-6 & 8 -11 may be lightly but not overly enhanced by the use of any graphic program such as Photoshop, Elements or Photo Impact, etc. for the purpose of cropping, rotation, lightening or darkening, minor cleanup corrections due to camera sensor “dirt” or sharpening of the image only. The exception may be for entries in Class 7 which editing permits significant when creating a desired abstract or impressionistic effect. 4. The photos for this contest must be taken by a member of the ARS residing in the PNW District or who is a member of a local Rose Society within the Pacific Northwest District of the American Rose Society. 5. Photos that have won “Class” or “Best in Show” awards in previous PNW District ARS contests are not eligible to be entered. 6. Rose entries in Classes 1 through 7 must be identified by their ARS exhibition names. Grooming of the rose(s) at the time they are photographed is encouraged, ‘Peace’ and artificial backgrounds may be used. The roses do not need to be photographed in Hybrid tea, yellow blend the garden or on the bush. 7. When submitted, name each image to reflect its contest Class and ARS exhibition name when required. For example: If you are entering a photo of ‘Gemini’ in the Amateur division in Class 1, you must add an ‘AC’ to the entry code, as: “AC#1Gemini” (this signifies “Amateur Class #1[Rose name]...”). Photos entered in the Master division must add an ‘MC’ to their entry code, as given here: “MC#1, Gemini” (Master Class #1...). 8. Email your entries to Harlow Young at threekids@ charter.net. It is important that you include your name, address, phone number, email, and local Rose Society (if applicable) in the message. Also include any additional information that might be appropriate for the entry. If you’re mailing prints, mail without folding in a padded, over-sized envelope to: Harlow Young, 3218 W. 2nd Ave., Kennewick, WA 99336. 9. Entries must be received by midnight, September 15, 2019. Entries received after that date will not be included in the judging. ‘Hot to Trot’ 10. The Chair of the committee reserves the right to disqualify any entry that does not conform to these rules and guidelines. Miniflora, orange red Queen’s Herald - Tacoma Rose Society - Celebrating 100+ years of Roses

2109 PNWD Photo Contest Classes 1. One bloom - exhibition stage, no side buds of hybrid tea, grandiflora, floribunda, miniature, miniflora classifications of roses. Note: Roses designated by ARS standards as “single” in its petal count whose exhibition form is best in the open form must be entered in Class 3. 2. One spray (two or more blooms) of hybrid tea, grandiflora, floribunda, miniature, or miniflora classifications 3. One fully open bloom - any variety, stamens must show. 4. One bloom or spray - of a Shrub (other than HT, GR, FL, Min, MinFl, POL, OGR, Species or Climber) all on one stem only. 5. One bloom or spray - of an OGR, Species, Polyantha or Climber 6. A collection of Multiple Blooms - a minimum of three blooms of one or more Imperial Place Gardens varieties, at maximum stage of beauty for the variety(ies), arranged and photographed. Tokyo, Japan 7. Abstract or Impressionism - A non-objective design, form, or content of which Rosa banksiae alba and Rosa evokes a sense of originality or a different way of imagining or viewing the bansiae lutea were displayed on subject. For this class only, you may creatively enhance your photo by coloring, cropping, painting, shadowing, blurring, layering, merging, etc. sort of a bench looking structure 8. A photo of any rose garden. Photos in this class should show the use of like this; as you can see, the roses within the structure of the garden. Roses should dominate the photo and canes were bent over and tied some layout of the garden should be evident. Roses need not be identified by name. (espaliered). 9. Macro Photography– An EXTREME CLOSE-UP photo of any part of the rose or rose plant or any portion thereof. Color, black & white, sepia or combinations of these are permitted in this class. 10. Director’s Choice Class – A photo of an insect on a rose, rose plant, or any portion thereof. The photo need not identify the name of the rose. The photos will be judged on clarity and uniqueness of photo. Preferably, these should be photos not previously entered in the PNW district contest. 11. Everything Else – Any rose photo that doesn’t fit into any of classes 1 through 9. It could be an image of roses with people, animals, etc., or of a rose society activity. It could be an arrangement, or one or more rose bushes that constitute a single unit. You should name the rose(s) in the photo if appropriate. If the photo includes a local rose society activity or people, identify the Society, the activity, and the people in the photo (unless it’s a crowd scene). Since the winning photo may be published on the district website or other district publication, it’s a good idea to have the permission of anyone who could be recognized in the picture.

INTERESTING WAYS TO DISPLAY A CLIMBING ROSE Barbara Lind, Master Rosarian As you all know, John Moe really likes climbing roses. He has shared what you can do to get the most roses on a bush by espaliering the canes. This puts the canes in a horizontal position so that all the bud eyes on a cane will ‘The Impressionist’ produce a stem with a bloom. On his recent trip to Japan, he shared a photo of Climber, yellow blend espaliered Rosa banksiae roses on a bamboo structure. We also love climbers. This winter the unusually heavy snow pulled down the canes of our bush of ‘The Impressionist’ so that they were horizontal. Although we noticed this in the spring, we were both sidelined from gardening with a really cold for about a month. When we finally came up for air, the canes that had been pulled down were now covered with tons of blooms and buds. What to do? It seemed impossible to just cut off the canes that were laying down. Pulling them up and cutting them back is an option. Since we can no longer cut the grass underneath these canes and get around a nearby bed of roses, this is Bruce’s choice. I am wondering if we (Bruce) can build some kind of structure similar to the bamboo one in John’s photo to keep it this way. What do you think we should do?

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‘Eddie’s Jewel’ Hybrid Moyesii, medium red

Fred Loads’ Shrub, orange red 25 ft tall into a Holly‘ tree

‘Hugh Dickson’’ Hybrid Perpetual, Medium red

2019 ROSE SHOWS

Tri-City Rose Society Rose Show June 1, 2019 Rogue Valley Rose Society Display June 4, 2019 Portland Rose Society Spring Show June 6-7, 2019 Seattle Rose Society Rose Show June 15-16, 2019 Fort Vancouver Rose Society Rose Show June 15, 2019 Vancouver B.C. Rose Society No show scheduled Heritage Roses Northwest Rose Display June 16, 2019 Tacoma Rose Society Rose Show June 22, 2019 Spokane Rose Society Rose Show June 22, 2019 SW Oregon Rose Society Rose Show June 22, 2019 Fraser Pacific Rose Society No show scheduled Rainy Rose Society Rose Display June 30, 2019 Missoula Rose Society No show scheduled Portland Rose Society Mini Show August 3, 2019 Tualatin Valley Rose Society Rose Show September 7, 2019 Portland Rose Society Fall Show September 14-15, 2019 Washington State Fair Rose Shows Sept. 1, 8, 15, 21, 2019

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Barbara & Bruce Lind 2132 Bridgeport Way University Place, WA 98466-4824

EDITOR’S E-Mail: [email protected] TRS Officers Membership in the Tacoma Rose Society President is open to all. TRS is a non-profit Matt Hixon 253-677-8634 educational organization affiliated with the 1st Vice President American Rose Society. Kerry Tynes, 253-970-5968 ARS & TRS Consulting Rosarians Meetings: the third Thursday of the 2nd VP & Program Chair (* = Master Rosarian) months of Feb – June and Sept. – Nov. John Moe 253-815-1072 Sheldon Arkin, 253-606-9040, South Tacoma Annual banquet is in January with a picnic Secretary Gracie Baker*, 253-851-5154, Gig Harbor in August. Gracie Baker 253-851-5154 Ava Brock, 253-381-4862, North Tacoma Dues: $20 per household per calendar Treasurer Faith Gant*, 425-888-5245, North Bend year. Check payable to the Tacoma Rose Barbara Lind 253-565-0246 Greta & Matt Hixon, 253-720-6072, Gig Harbor Society. Board Members Jack Kiley*, 360-754-4937, Olympia Website: Diane Belknap 253-858-2152 Dennis Konsmo*, 253-278-5891, Gig Harbor www.tacomarosesociety.org Ron Bryan 206-200-6821 Margaret Leisner*, 253-537-2564, S Tacoma Webmaster: Steve Mitchell Charlotte Chalker 253-531-3466 Bruce* & Barbara* Lind, 253-565-0246, [email protected] Sue DeRome 253-383-4544 University Place Hank Goeyenbier 253-952-0154 Jo Martin*, 253-752-5857, Westgate Meetings are held at Past President John Moe*, 253-815-1072, Federal Way Gloria Dei Lutheran Church Keith Ripley 253-474-9603 Ed Pawlowski*, Auburn 3315 S. 19th St., Tacoma, WA Special Advisory Board Mike* & Alexa Peterson, 425-226-8388, Renton Park and enter in the back! Jo Martin 253-752-5857 Cheryl Prescott, 253-789-1898, Lake Stevens Driving Directions Diane Proff 253-927-5867 Diane Proff, 253-927-5867, Puyallup Daisy Radloff 253-272-0063 Daisy Radloff, 253-272-0063, Central Tacoma From Northbound or Southbound I-5 Consulting Rosarian Chair Becky Rehburg, 253-537-7945, Steilacoom take the Highway 16W Exit (132). Bruce Lind 253-565-0246 Betsy Rezba, 253-752-8425, Westgate Continue Westbound to Union Ave Exit Membership Chair Keith Ripley, 253-474-9603, Spanaway (1B) and travel Northbound (right) on Jim Leisner 253-537-2564 Dan Simmons, 253-862-0423, Puyallup Union Ave. There is a stoplight at the Artistic Director Kerry Tynes, 253-970-5968, Tacoma intersection of Union Ave and S 19th St. Monica Weidman 253-756-8833 Elena Williams*, 360-620-2642, Bremerton Gloria Dei Lutheran Church is about 1 Door Prizes Chair Bill Wilson*, 253-840-3169, Puyallup block East. Turn right on S 19th and Sue DeRome 253-383-4544 then left into the parking lot. Sunshine Chair Diane Proff 253-927-5867 The parking lot can also be accessed Hospitality Co-Chairs via Union Ave & S 18th St. Gracie Baker & Becky Rehburg