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Rose Care for April
What’s Bugging Your Roses?
Shelter in place includes the rose garden!
Garden Design in Marin
November 2019
Keeping Varmints at Bay
Do you look out the window and find your roses beheaded? Are your carefully cultivated fruits and vegetables partially eaten? Or, have your plants disappeared in entirety? It is likely deer, gophers, or rats are appreciating your garden. Join us for information and techniques to help you cope and control these garden pests.
Find out more »December 2019
Rose Pruning and Basic Rose Care
Come join us and learn about pruning roses and basic rose care. This program covers why we prune roses, when to prune, and how to water and feed your roses. Get answers to all your rose care questions. There is an opportunity for audience participation, please bring your hand pruning shears. Our speaker, Paula Jaffe, grows over 100 roses in Tiburon. She is a Marin Master Gardener, a Consulting Rosarian, and Treasurer for the Marin Rose Society. Her awards include…
Find out more »January 2020
Rose Pruning
This is the perfect time to get out in the garden and hard prune your roses. Marin Master Gardener and Rosarian Don Chapman will give a brief talk about necessary tools, what and why to prune and much more (maybe even how to propagate). Most importantly, he will demonstrate how, where, how far, and why to prune. Participants will break into small groups and prune a rose under supervision and instruction. Dress warmly and bring hand pruners and gloves (rose…
Find out more »Rose Pruning and Basic Care
Do you have questions about pruning roses, and basic rose care? Why do we prune roses? When should we prune roses? How should we water and feed our roses? These questions, and many others, will be answered in this program. There is an opportunity for audience participation - please bring your hand pruning shears and gloves. Paula Jaffe grows over 100 roses in Tiburon. She is a Marin Master Gardener, an American Rose Society Consulting Rosarian, and an officer of…
Find out more »MRS Annual Rose Pruning Demonstration
The MRS Annual Rose Pruning Demonstration! This is a chance to see winter pruning, cleanup and shaping techniques led by our own members! Paula Jaffe, Richard Holtz, Vivien Bronshvag and Sandy Simon will provide live demonstrations on a variety of roses. We welcome members and guests to bring their own potted roses as "demonstrators" after which they can either go home with their owners, ready for a strong spring showing...OR we can add them to our raffle table to help…
Find out more »February 2020
Things to consider when setting up an Irrigation System for Roses
Tom Bressen will share “Things to consider when setting up an Irrigation System for Roses” which should be helpful for gardeners with existing systems OR those that are setting up a drip system for the first time. There should be lots of GREAT practical knowledge for rose growers of all levels of experience. Tom should know! He is the founder of the Urban Farmer Stores throughout the Bay Area! Marin Rose Society Talk Notes
Find out more »March 2020
Garden Design Principles
Author and gardener Dane Rose will speak about "Garden Design Principles". "How do we decide what to do with our garden overall or a specific area? Design principles help sort through all the options to bring us the highest amount of personal value for the lowest cost in time, money and natural resources. Come join us for a presentation on deciding what to do. Signed copies of the only two books written specifically about gardening in Marin will be available.…
Find out more »NCNH District Spring Business Meeting – CANCELLED
MEETING CANCELLED due to COVID-19. Coffee and light refreshments from 9:00 a.m. Meeting from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Please bring a dish to share for lunch. There is NO oven in the facility. Consulting Rosarian seminar at 1:00 p.m. by Rebecca Shaw on "Speaking in Public" (one point).
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Roses FYI
