Lance Osborne – Professor of Entomology Lance Osborne is an entomology professor in the Department of Entomology and Nematology at the University of Florida. A leading expert in Integrated Pest Management (IPM), Osborne specializes in biological control methods for pests of ornamental plants, including thrips, whiteflies, mealybugs and mites. At the University of Florida’s Mid-Florida […]

Speaker: Dr. Mark Windham, Professor Emeritus of Plant Pathology, The University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture Join us as Dr. Mark Windham shows us the way to encourage a healthy spring garden starts with actions in late summer and fall.  As the days get shorter, rose foliage becomes less effective in converting energy to sugars. Leaves […]

Speaker: Paul Zimmerman, Owner, Paul Zimmerman Roses Consulting and Design Join us for an engaging webinar as Paul Zimmerman presents the following about his program. “As passionate rose growers we are always adding new roses to our gardens. This makes it hard to be able to design a garden using traditional means like color grouping, […]

Join us as Ping Lim Director of Ornamental Plant Research, Altman Plants, Whose lifelong mission is to create stunning roses that can be grown by anyone, anywhere, without harmful chemicals. The intent behind True Bloom Roses is to combine the best traits of hybrid tea roses with disease-resistant shrub roses. The roses are bred to […]

Join us as Suzanne Horn’s program will feature a brief history of Horizon Roses and the people who have made it possible. It will also feature beautiful photos and selected reviews of many of the top new show roses of all types in the country along with sneak previews of many new highly anticipated introductions […]

Located in Solano County, E.B. Stone is one of the nation’s oldest organic fertilizer producers. Founded in 1916 in San Jose, E.B. Stone the company was named for a local farmer, E.B. Stone. He created a fertilizer for his fruit trees that produced bigger and better crops. His fertilizers and amendments became so popular, he […]

Join us as Ruth Tiffany present a program that honor the rose, our national flower. Ruth does, in fact, grow more than 800 roses on a small corner lot in east San Diego. She says: “Growing roses in three different gardens over nearly 30 years has taught me, and continues to teach me, of the […]

Join us as Tom Carruth tells us about his time in the world of roses. Tom Carruth is one of the greats of modern rose breeding – the winner of 11 All-America Rose Selections (AARS) and creator of more than 150 cultivars.  When he finished up his graduate work in plant breeding, he was just […]

Join us as Highly Acclaimed Master Rosarians Dr. Satish Prabhu, Ray Guillebeau, Lou Pavlovich and Linda Clark discuss the Winter Seasonal Care of Roses from the beginning to the end of the season in a Roundtable Discussion from the perspective of the southern region of the United States. Their Roundtable Discussion will begin with the […]