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Queen’s Herald - Tacoma Rose Society -Herald Celebrating 100+ years of Roses 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 Rose Garden 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 Garden Roses, (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 song 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) Queen’s Herald - Tacoma Rose Society - Celebrating 100+ years of Roses 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? Floribunda 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.