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Sept. 17-18 – 2022 Tenarky District Fall Rose Show & Convention Schedule and Registration Form

Hosted by the Nashville Rose Society

 

Photo courtesy of Cheekwood Estate & Gardens

Exciting news for everyone! Mark your calendars and plan to come to the 2022 Tenarky District Fall Rose Show & Convention at Cheekwood Gardens in Nashville.

The show and convention will be held Saturday and Sunday, September 17-18. We will have horticulture, arrangements, and photography divisions. As this is our district rose show, we will have the 13 Tenarky District Challenge Horticulture Classes which includes the much sought-after Moore and McFarland trophies. Arrangements will include (for only the second time) the Sam Jones Memorial Arrangement Challenge class. This is your opportunity to enter your roses in district classes that are not available at our local shows.
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Sept. 11, 2-4:30 – Fall Grand Prix Rose Show at Cheekwood

2019 Spring Grand Prix winners for Large Roses (other than hybrid tea)
The 2022 Fall Grand Prix Rose Show will be held during the Nashville Rose Society regularly scheduled monthly meeting on Sunday, September 11, 2022, in the Potter Room at Cheekwood Gardens & 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 1pm. 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.

Click here to open the schedule for the Grand Prix.

The 2022 Tenarky District 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 .

For more information on how roses are judged, visit the American Rose Society website, rose.org, and study the “Guidelines and Rules for Judging Roses”.

Directions to the Potter Room: Enter Cheekwood and drive up to the parking attendants at the top of the hill. If they direct you to park outside the stone gates and it is difficult for you to walk far, tell them that the Rose Society has spaces reserved in Lot A. If those spaces are foll, there is a golf cart shuttle that will bring you to Botanic Hall. Once you park, bypass the ticket booth and come to the first building on your left which is Botanic Hall (you will notice the building has a large covered entrance). Enter the building and turn left down the hall to the Potter Room.

GOOD NEWS! Resistance to Rose Rosette Disease has been identified!

by Teresa Byington and Dr. Mark Windham

 

Resistance to Rose Rosette Disease has been identified and is a GAME CHANGER!

Listen to the full RoseChat Podcast with Teresa Byington and Dr. Mark Windham. Dr. Windham brings us up to date on where we are today with the rose rosette research, what we’ve learned, and the direction the research is going. He also discusses the extreme need for research dollars to help fight this deadly disease.
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Rose Chat Podcast – Ron Daniels, “Secrets to my Success with Roses”

Hosted by Teresa Byington

Nashville Public Television filming “Volunteer Gardener” in Ron’s rose garden.
On this Rose Chat Podcast episode Ron Daniels, Master Consulting Rosarian and 2020 Co-President of the Nashville Rose Society and a Rose Chat favorite, talks about his success with roses to help us be successful too. And a bonus topic… just why did PBS photographers come to his open garden. Listen to the show here.

Ron is a third generation gardener who loves and enjoys growing roses. He also shares his experience with others who have the same desire to grow champion roses and other plants and to do so successfully.

Join Chris VanCleave and Teresa Byington each week for the Rose Chat Podcast. This top rated gardening podcast explores the different aspects of roses. With topics ranging from where to plant roses, how to select roses for your garden as well as how to maintain them to achieve the garden of your dreams.

August 7, 2-4:30 – Linda Jansing, “What are the Judges Looking For?”

If you have entered a rose show, you may have wondered, “what are the judges looking for?” when they give out the blue, red and yellow ribbons.

Linda Jansing, Horticulture Judge Chair and Photography Chair for the Tenarky District
On Sunday, August 7, our speaker will be Linda Jansing, American Rose Society Horticultural Judge, who will take the mystery out of how roses are judged. This topic will be particularly helpful for those who plan to enter roses in the upcoming Nashville Rose Society Fall Grand Prix or the Tenarky District Rose Show.

Linda Jansing has been a member of the American Rose Society, Tenarky District, and the Louisville Rose Society since 1993. She is a Master Rosarian and has been the Horticulture Judge Chair and Photography Chair for the Tenarky District since 2016. She has been president and vice president of the Louisville Rose Society.

In the past 30 years, Linda has grown all types of roses but mainly hybrid teas. She has also grown miniatures, minifloras, shrubs, David Austins…and the list goes on.

Linda told us, “The first time I exhibited a hybrid tea, “Peace”, I won Novice Queen and I was hooked!”

She started clerking at rose shows to learn more and a few years later, became a Horticulture Judge mainly to become a better exhibitor, but she has loved judging local, district and national rose shows for the past 18 years.

Bring a few roses if you have them on August 7th. We will talk about what judges are looking for when you exhibit your beautiful roses at the Tenarky District Show on September 17th.

The meeting will be held in the Potter Room at Cheekwood Estate & Gardens. Admission to Cheekwood is not required – let the gate attendant know that you are attending the NRS Meeting in the Potter Room.