PRINTPOST APPROVED VOL 43 No. 411 1 February, 2019/ 1 March, 2019 Inside this issue Monthly ❀ Time to order meetings are Neutrog held on the first products Friday of each month ❀ Facts about starting at roses 8 p.m. ❀ Growing roses at the Newington in Arizona’s Community heat Centre, ❀ Cultural notes Cnr Avenue of for February & Europe & March Avenue of Asia Newington Visitors are welcome See you at 8 p.m. st On Friday 1 February, 2019 and 8 p.m. Friday 1st March, 2019 at Newington Community Centre PATRONS CHAIRMAN’S MESSAGE Sandra & Graham Ross CHAIRMAN Jacqueline Tweedie It is now time to think about how much and 1 Christel Ave., Carlingford 2118 which Neutrog product you want to use in VICE CHAIRMAN your garden. This will be this Regional’s first Keith Baron (02) 9484 0236 SECRETARY order for 2019. The second will be in Kerry Hurst August. P O Box 72, Haberfield, 2045 Home: 9799 9218 Your Neutrog fertilizer orders can be TREASURER placed up to 26th February. Remember, you Greg East 12 Park St. Merrylands 2160 need to forward your money when 9897 5052 ordering. Orders can be placed by phone, COMMITTEE: email or by post. All details are on the Shirley Baron 9484 0236 Jim Cunningham 9659 6664 order form page. If the order is of Pat Cunningham insufficient weight for free delivery from Robyn East 9897 5052 Neutrog in South Australia then the cost of positions still vacant APPOINTEES TO STATE delivery will be spread over all orders. You COUNCIL will be notified if this extra charge applies so Keith Baron you can pay at time of collection. The Greg East Robyn East problem experienced last time was the first ALTERNATE APPOINTEES time it has occurred and hopefully it will be Shirley Baron the last. You can place your order at the Jim Cunningham st HONORARY AUDITOR next meeting on 1 February. Vacant at present HONORARY SHOW SECRETARY Rosalie Vine, a member from the Macarthur Keith Baron Region, will be the guest speaker at our SHOW BENCH STEWARD Pat Cunningham March meeting. Rosalie will talk about LIBRARIANS fragrant roses and have some for you to Ted & Meryl Morphett smell. Some could be species, old fashioned, (02) 4735 3668 PUBLICITY OFFICER heritage or modern cultivars. Vacant EDITOR SYDNEY ROSE NEWS February will be a trip back to the Australian Jacqueline Tweedie 9872 1862 Championship in 2018 and my visit to email: [email protected] (Closing date for contributions is L’Alhambre in Granada, Spain. The gardens Monthly Committee meeting) were in flower and looked beautiful. There were many beds of roses and archways covered in blooms. Exhibitors are reminded about the up-coming rose shows that Our December meeting was are open to members. I realise enjoyable. The Christmas Trivia not all members want to exhibit Quiz was won by Mark and roses but some people do like a Meryl. The raffle prizes went challenge so give it a try to home with Mark and Kerry. Jim show how your gardening and Pat scored the most voting know-how is getting better. results in the Vase of Roses by Autumn is kinder on your Popular Vote. Greg and Robyn blooms, no loss of colour to received their Annual blooms because of the hot sun. Showbench Award and Ailsa took home the Eva Louise The second show for Miniature Trophy. Meryl collected the and Miniflora Roses will be held Floral Art prize for the highest at Mittagong on 16th & 17th annual score. Congratulations March. to all winners. Concord Garden Club Autumn Another busy year finished with Show is on 6th & 7th April at a very good variety of supper Concord Community Hall, food on 7th December. Gipps Rd. We hopefully look forward to We received a letter concerning the 2019 Rose Quiz being fund raising for the World Rose supplied by Mark who will use Conference 2021 in South his incredible knowledge about Australia. We have been asked roses to form a set of general to hold a fund raising event to knowledge questions with the help them with the expected answer being the name of a costs of holding the event. rose. What can you do to assist in this money raising challenge? A number of members went to Hold a BBQ on a Saturday or the December meeting of Sunday, a cake stall, what do Concord Garden Club and said you suggest? they had an interesting and enjoyable afternoon. I was The Australian Championships invited but got detained at home in 2020, a year before the on that afternoon. World Conference, will be held answer appears on a dial at the in the Kiama Pavilion, Kiama, top of the unit. If and when you N.S.W. More details as they borrow the unit you will be become available. expected to return it in good condition. If it is lost, broken or The evening at Carlingford damaged while in your Bowling Club was well attended. possession you will be held The food was very good and of responsible to replace the unit. a different cuisine to prior years, this time French/Italian not A register to record each Asian. Thank you Keith for member as they borrow the organising our table. tester will be kept and the borrower will need to return In the last magazine you were the tester to the Chairman at asked about a visit to the Royal her home or at the following Botanic Gardens early in 2019 monthly Friday night meeting. but I have not had any suggestions on a date or time. COR R ECTION TO Are you interested in attending? SPRING SHOW RESULTS Hope all your family reunions In the last magazine an error over the festive period went was made in who received the well. Best Unit in ‘C’ Grade. Graham Colitts was listed but it should If you have been a bit unhealthy have been Judy Satchell with her please recover quickly as we exhibit of ‘Joyce Abounding”. would like to see you in at the Apologies to Judy. next meeting. ````````````````````````` Jacqueline What’s a th igm otr op ism ? SOIL TESTER [thig-mo-truh-piz-uh m] Do you have the means to easily Noun - Biology. test the PH level in your rose It’s an oriented growth of an organism garden? We have a PH soil test in response to mechanical contact, as meter. Just push it into moist a plant tendril coiling around a string soil wait a few minutes and the support. M onth l y sh ow b ench – 2018-19 CUMULATIVE POINT SCORE 2018-19 NOVICE JULY 2018/JUNE 2019 EVA LOUISE TROPHY ONLY Classes 1-9 Class 11 Class 10 Shirley & Keith Baron 19.00 5.00 Greg & Robyn East 30.50 6.50 Ailsa Wareham 12.50 Some of the roses in DECEMBER ‘vase of roses’ competition: ‘Chameleon’, ‘Flemington Racecourse’, ‘French Lace’, ‘Just Joey’ Our monthly meetings are a good place to learn about preparing and putting blooms onto the show bench. If you get the bush growing correctly blooms always follow. FLORAL ART Meryl Morphett 16.50 BEGINNERS OR NOVICES Class 10 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. R OSE SHOWS IN AUTUMN 2019 SHOW DATE VENUE Miniature & Miniflora 16 – 17 March Mittagong RSL Club Rose Show Blacktown City Show 23 – 24 March Blacktown Showground Macarthur Show 30 March Camden Show 5 – 6 April Camden Showground Easter Show 12 – 24 April Sydney Showground If you rip a hole in a net, there are actually fewer holes in it than there were before. neutr og or der - CL OSING DA TE – 26TH FEBRUARY 1. Phone your order to Jacqueline on 9872 1862 & direct deposit to our bank account …ANZ Bank BSB 012 263 008688516 2. Email your order to [email protected] & direct deposit to the bank a/c listed above. 3. Post your order and cheque made out to NSW Rose Society of NSW Sydney Regional to Mrs. J. Tweedie, 1 Christel Ave, Carlingford. 2118 4. Bring your order and payment to our next meeting at Newington on February 1, 2019. Product available CONFIDENTIAL Bush Tucker 20 kg. bag $33.00 Gyganic 20 kg. bag $33.00 Kahoona 20 kg. bag $33.00 Sudden Impact for Roses 20 kg. bag $33.00 Strike Back for Orchids 20 kg. bag $33.00 Strike Back for Orchids Liquid 1 Lt. bottle $11.00 Sudden Impact for Lawns 20 kg. bag $33.00 Upsurge 7.5 kg. bag $18.00 Bounce Back 20 kg. bag $15.00 Rapid Raiser 20 kg. bag $17.00 Blade Runner 15 kg. bag $17.00 Rocket Fuel 15 kg. bag $15.00 Cock'n'Bull 30 Lt. bag $ 8.00 Meatworks Blood'n'Bone 25 kg. bag $33.00 Seamungus Pellets 20 kg. bag $22.00 Seamungus Liquid 1 Lt. bottle $11.00 Seamungus Green Crumble 20 kg. bag $25.00 GOGO Juice – concentrated 1 Lt. bottle $11.00 GOGO Juice – concentrated 2 Lt. bottle $17.00 GOGO Juice - ready to use pre-mix 2 Lt. spray pack $11.00 Who Flung Dung 20 kg. bag $15.00 CULTURAL NOTES (with help from earlier compiled articles) February has been noted for If your bushes have spindly being the hottest and driest growth (stems less/below pencil month of the year for many thickness) then you may need to years.