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Did you know???

You can now pay your annual membership dues, join the Nashville Rose Society, or donate to the Society using a credit card?

Joining the Nashville Rose Society or paying Membership dues can now be done on the Venmo app!

Pay Your Dues with Venmo

Annual membership dues are $25 per household if paid by check; $26 per household if paid on-line using Venmo to cover the 59 cents processing fee that Venmo charges NRS.

If you are a new member and want to pay by Venmo, fill out the membership form (pdf) on the Nashville Rose Society.org Membership page and email to Marty at marty615@bellsouth.net.

If you are new to Venmo, go to Venmo.com to set up your account, click the QR code or download the Venmo app from the Google Play Store or the Apple Store to get started. Once you are signed in, search for the Nashville Rose Society listed under businesses as @Nashville_Rose_Society. If you use the QR code you will automatically be directed to the NRS page. Submit your payment of $26. Please include your name, email and phone number in the Notes section below the payment amount.

Make a Donation with Zeffy

If you would like to make a donation to the Nashville Rose Society, you can use Zeffy. Zeffy is the only 100% free fundraising platform for nonprofits. Click here to get started, or scan the QR code with your phone/tablet. When you check out, select ‘Other’ in the Zeffy contribution drop-down and enter zero.

How easy was that! No more paper checks, stamps (which now cost 78 cents!) or envelopes required!

We hope to see you at the 2025 Music City Rose Show!

Rose Study Garden – Photo Courtesy of Cheekwood Estate & Gardens
Mass Arrangement – Best in Show 2024 NRS Rose Society Show exhibited by Barbara Taube

The 2025 Music City Rose Show presented by the Nashville Rose Society will be held at Cheekwood Estate & Gardens – Massey Auditorium on Saturday, September 13 (1:00pm – 5:00pm), and Sunday, September 14 (11:00am – 4:00pm).

The rose preparation area at Massey Hall will open at 6 a.m. on Saturday. Horticulture entries will be placed on the exhibition tables by show personnel from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. Challenge exhibits will be placed by the exhibitor. Judging will begin at 10:30 a.m.

The Rose Show will be open to the public from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday.

Weekend Events are FREE to the Public (with admission to Cheekwood, all in Massey Auditorium)

Click here to see full details of the show, including the schedule, seminars and Ron’s book signing.

We look forward to seeing you at the 2025 Music City Rose Show!

Monday, September 8, 5:00pm-7:30pm – Fall Grand Prix Rose Show

Fall is one of the most beautiful times for our rose blooms! Hopefully, the brutal summer heat is on its way OUT!!

The Nashville Rose Society 2025 Fall Grand Prix Rose Show will be held during the regularly scheduled monthly meeting on Monday, September 8, 2025, in the Massey Auditorium of Botanic Hall / Visitor Services Building at Cheekwood Garden and Estate.

The purpose of the Grand Prix is to give members a chance to learn about and practice exhibiting roses. A grooming room will be open at 5:00 pm. Experienced exhibitors will be there to help anyone needing help grooming their roses. All you need to do is know the names of the roses you bring. This show is an excellent opportunity to learn how to enter your roses in the 2025 Music City Rose Show to be held at Cheekwood on Saturday, September 13, and the Tenarky District Fall Convention & Rose Show on Saturday, October 4, 2025 in Germantown, TN.

Click here to open the schedule for the Grand Prix.

The 2024 Tenarky Rose Show schedule will be discussed and there will be members who can help you fill out the tags that go on your entries.

Please note: The NRS Grand Prix rose shows are not sanctioned by the American Rose Society .

Saturday,August 23, 10:00am-6:00pm – Tennessee Garden Party at the Wilson County/Tennessee State Fair

You are invited…

to the Great American / Tennessee Garden Party at Wilson County / Tennessee Stat Fair. The Party will be held on the Hometown Stage of the Expo Center at the James E. Ward Agricultural Center, 945 E. Baddour Parkway, Lebanon, TN on Saturday August 23, 2025.

Sponsors include:

  • Wilson County Gardeners Guild
  • Wilson County Master Gardeners
  • Top Knot Apparel
  • and the ‘Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale’ movie, premieres in theaters nationwide on September 12, 2025

Giveaways! You must be present to win! Wear Your favorite garden party hat!

*SCHEDULE*

10:00am – 11:30am Lucas Holman – Kids Garden Clinic, “Propagating Success for Kids”

11:30am – 12:30pm Jason Reeves – “Planting Evergreens in Your Landscape and Making Holiday Wreath Demo”, Demo and Presentation

12:30pm-1:30pm Registration and submit entries for Charcuterie Showdown!

12:30pm-1:00pm Beekeeper Jessica Dodds-Davis, “What happens in the bee hive?” – Jessica will present the different bees, the role they play, how they pollinate and how honey is made

1:00pm-1:30 Kristen Hightower – “Slice, Stack, and Savor: A Guide to Charcuterie Done Right!” demonstrate the basics of assembling a charcuterie board

1:30pm-3:00pm – Charcuterie Showdown! Competition for building garden themed charcuterie board, Nick Beres, Channel 5 News, Master of Ceremonies

2:30pm -3:00pm Music by Stefani Daniels

3:00pm-4:00pm Ron Daniels, “Growing Roses” – Ron will present tips and tricks for growing prize winning roses. After his talk, Ron will be at a table at the back of the Hometown audience to sign purchased copies of his book “Rose Therapy” and answer rose questions.

4:00pm Rose Showcase – Showcase a variety of entries in the Rose Show – artwork, poetry, music, crafts, etc

4:45pm-5:00pm Sally Murphy – “How are Paintings and Gardens Alike?”

5:00pm-6:00pm Michael Zimmerman of Apple and Dove Cut Flower Farm, Gallatin TN – Step into the elegance of the Victorian era with our Floriography Class, where Mike shares the hidden language of flowers and demonstrates how to craft a bouquet rich with meaning.

Monday, August 4, 5:00-7:30pm – Jim Sproul, “Rose Hybridizing Made Easy”

Diane Summers rose
The August meeting of the Nashville Rose Society will be held on Monday (Note the day!), August 4, 2025, in the Massey Auditorium at Cheekwood Estate & Gardens. Our speaker is Dr. James (Jim) Sproul. Jim will be joining us virtually at 6:00pm to discuss his experiences growing roses from seeds and hybridizing new roses. Hospitality will begin at 5:00pm and NRS Business and Rose Care topics will be at 5:30pm.

Jim is a recently retired family-medicine doctor who enjoys having more time to focus on his family and on his rose breeding program. He has been growing roses from seeds for 40 years. Early on he planted seeds from open pollinated rose hips that he gathered from his neighborhood and local rose gardens. It wasn’t long before he realized that a greater range of seedlings would be possible by purposefully crossing one rose with another.

PowerPuff Pink rose
Jim’s goal is to produce novel rose seedlings that also have good health. Named roses that he has hybridized include ‘Honey Dijon’, ‘Brick House® Pink’, ‘Candy Sunblaze’®, Heather Sproul’, the Eyeconic® series and ‘Thrive!’. Mentored by Mr. Ralph Moore, he has a great love for miniature and Hulthemia (a wild rose species from the plateau of central Asia) roses. His first named rose to combine these traits is ‘Diane Sommers’. His newest rose introduced by Star Roses is ‘PowerPuff™ Pink’.

Save the date! The 2025 Nashville Rose Show will be held on Saturday, September 13 at Cheekwood.

The Cheekwood Estate and Gardens is located at 1200 Forrest Park Dr, Nashville, Tennessee 37205. The meetings are free to guests, as is admission to Cheekwood for meetings. Simply tell the gate attendant that you are there for the Nashville Rose Society meeting.

We look forward to seeing you at our August meeting!