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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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.  

Preparation for the Annual Rose and Photography Show

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

Paula Jaffe will talk about how to present roses for a rose show. She will be joined by Betty Mott who will do the same for entering photographs.

Organic Pest and Disease Control for Roses

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

Kevin Sadler from Green Jeans Garden Supply, right here in Mill Valley, will be talking about organic pest and disease control for roses.  Kevin should know as Green Jeans opened 26 years ago, specializing in organic controls for the landscape, and is a Marin County staple!  

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Gardens of Southern England – Part 1

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

Charlotte Owendyk and Linda Knowles are excited to share with you some of the fabulous gardens we visited on our tour sponsored by Garden Gate and Horticulture magazines in July. It was a wonderful, jam-packed 8-day trip with like-minded gardeners. We will share our photos of Sissinghurst Castle, Great Dixter House, Sussex Prairie, and The …

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Marin Rose Society Annual Winter Pruning Demo/Discussion

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

This year we will be viewing a film on the subject, followed by a panel discussion of MRS members. January 10, 2023, 6:30 PM, Mountain View Room, Mill Valley Community Center

Chemical Safety in the Garden

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

The Marin Rose Society is delighted to present Jolene Adams, who will do a hands-on presentation of the most updated information on chemical safety in the garden.  This is invaluable information for any gardener, and Consulting Rosarians will get 1 CR Credit! This is the first time we have presented this program since the pandemic so …

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Suitable for Framing

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

Come and learn about tricks and hints on making a rose photo worth enough to hang up on the wall.  Of course, that would usually mean it could do well in our photo contests as well! Our speaker is Lou Evans.  In addition to being an accomplished photographer, Lou is an NCNH District ARS judge, …

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Easy and Simple Spring Rose Arrangements

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

This will be a fun instructional session in which our speaker, Barbara Gordon, will demonstrate around 5 different arrangements that members will be able to make in their home with their own roses. A friend of the Marin Rose Society, Barbara grows around 400 roses in her Mountain View garden with fruit trees, camellias and …

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