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NCNH Rose Arrangement Workshop

McKinley Park Rose Garden Classroom Building, Corner of H Street and 33rd Street Sacramento, CA Corner of H Street and 33rd Street, Sacramento, CA, United States

Come learn 2 basic styles of arranging - A Traditional Line Design and an East Asian (Ikebana) Design - with fellow rosemaniacs and arrangers. You will get to choose 2 different containers to make 2 beautiful arrangements to take home, display, and brag about. Instructors include Arrangement Judges Barbara Gordon, Cherry Hoover, and Lesa Lane, …

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Holiday Guide to Rose Care

Mill Valley Community Center 180 Camino Alto, Mill Valley, CA, United States

Jan Burnham will present “Holiday Guide to Rose Care”, or how to tie annual rose care to holidays, making it easy to remember.  

Making your Garden a Haven for Pollinators and Birds

Mill Valley Community Center 180 Camino Alto, Mill Valley, CA, United States

Terry Oxford, Pollinator Advocate, Environmental Activist, Reformed Beekeeper, winner of three Good Food Awards for her bees' ‘Tree Blossom Honey’, speaks to gardeners who care deeply about birds, bees, and butterflies.  Terry's work reveals that commonly utilized systemic pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides, are pre-applied on ornamental plants (roses) and trees at local and national nurseries/growers before retail sale. Unless labled …

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Ralph Moore and Miniature Roses

Mill Valley Community Center 180 Camino Alto, Mill Valley, CA, United States

Burling Leong, owner of Burlington Roses, will give a talk on “Ralph Moore and Miniature Roses”. Ralph Moore is considered the “father” of the miniature rose, patenting his first rose in 1957. Many of those varieties, unavailable elsewhere, are available at Burlington Roses. MRS members and guests may order roses in advance and Burling can …

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