The Nashville Rose Society serves all of Middle Tennessee by sharing knowledge and information about our national flower, the rose.
Sharpen your pruners and grab your gloves for the March Pruning Workshop to be held on Saturday, March 19, at Nancy Jones’ garden in Bellevue from 10:00am – 12:00. This is the perfect opportunity for new members to learn how to prune roses from Nashville Rose Society experienced rosarians.
Nancy’s garden is located at 130 Belle Glen Drive, Nashville 37221. For more information, call Marty Reich at 615-833-0791 or 615-319-9487. Learn more about pruning roses here.
NOTE! the March meeting will begin at 1:00 to accommodate our speaker’s flight time.
Please join us on Sunday, March 6, 2022, to hear Ancrew Barocco, Director of Breeding at The Antique Rose Emporium, cover the philosophy, science, genetics and techniques on how to be better rose hybridizer.
Andrew Barocco is also a graduate student under Dr. David H. Byrne, a Professor who holds the Basye Endowed Chair in Rose Genetics at the Horticultural Sciences department at Texas A&M University.
Andrew grew up in the Acadiana region of Southern Louisiana where he was strongly influenced by the Cajun culture and his Cajun heritage. He graduated from Louisiana State University in 2016 with an undergraduate degree in Horticulture.
He moved to Texas in 2017 to pursue his graduate degree under Dr. Byrne. His research is to determine the graft transferability of resistance to the Rose Rosette Virus. He also is interested in making wide and difficult species crosses in order to introgress new and valuable traits into commercial germplasm. In the future, he plans to double the chromosomes of promising Rose Rosette Virus resistant diploid species roses, thereby possibly increasing their fertility. Not long after moving to Texas, he began work at The Antique Rose Emporium. There, he took up the reins of reinvigorating the breeding program and being the new production manager.
The March meeting of the Nashville Rose Society will be held at the Ayers Academic Center (Rooms C & D) at Belmont University, 1515 Wedgewood Ave, Nashville, TN 37212, just off Wedgewood Avenue. Ayers Academic Center is Building #8 on the Belmont campus map, and is the building next to the Inman Center where the Frist Lecture Hall is located (location of previous NRS meetings).
Parking: The Ayers Academic Center is located at the corner of Wedgewood and 15th avenues on the northern front of campus. The entrance to the parking garages for both buildings is the same as we used last year. There are two elevator banks in the garage underneath the Ayers Academic Center – the South and North elevators. Members should park by, then use, the North elevators to the 4th floor. These open up directly across from our meeting room – which is Ayers C & D. It is not easy to find the meeting room from the South elevators!
If you wish to attend virtually, please see Marty’s email to NRS members. If you would like to attend as a virtual guest, please submit your request on the Ask a Consulting Rosarian form on the website.
We are excited to have Matt Douglas, owner of High Country Roses, join us virtually (via GoToMeeting) on February 6, 2022, at 2:00pm for our first meeting of the year. Matt will share with us some of the things being done in the rose industry to preserve classic roses as well as give us an overview of the major production techniques for field grown, primarily grafted plants, and for greenhouse grown, primarily own root plants.
The meeting will be held at Belmont University in the Ayers Academic Center.
High Country Roses was founded in 1970 by Dr. William Campbell. Dr. Campbell combined his passions for roses and science by testing old garden roses that were uniquely adept at surviving and thriving in the Mountain West. Fifty years later, the business has grown and changed considerably but the focus is still the same, offer the highest quality, hardy roses on their own roots to customers across the United States.
Today, High Country Roses produces 40,000 roses a year, primarily for online mail order customers. They take great pride in preserving old roses and discovering varieties that thrive in the Mountain West.
Matt Douglas and his wife Jennifer took over the business in 2011 and represent the third generation of family leadership for High Country Roses.
The Ayers Academic Center (Rooms C & D) at Belmont University, 1515 Wedgewood Ave, Nashville, TN 37212, just off Wedgewood Avenue. Ayers Academic Center is Building #8 on the Belmont campus map, and is the building next to the Inman Center where the Frist Lecture Hall is located (location of previous NRS meetings).
If you wish to attend virtually, please see Marty’s email to NRS members. If you would like to attend as a guest, please submit your request on the Ask a Consulting Rosarian form on the website.
Parking: The Ayers Academic Center is located at the corner of Wedgewood and 15th avenues on the northern front of campus. There are two elevator banks in the garage underneath the Ayers Academic Center – the South and North elevators. Members should park by, then use, the North elevators to the 4th floor. These open up directly across from our meeting room – which is Ayers C & D. It is not easy to find the meeting room from the South elevators!
Click here to read the story of Teresa’s garden as told to Garden Gate Magazine, February 2022 issue.
Teresa was kind enough to let us record her GoToMeeting presentation that is filled with cottage garden history, gardening advice and plant recommendations. You can revisit Teresa’s presentation by clicking here.
Be sure to register for the Tenarky Winter Workshop that will be held at Belmont University, 1515 Wedgewood Ave, Nashville, TN 37212, February 18-20, 2022. Check-in will begin on February 18th from 4:00-6:00 p.m. in the Ayers Academic Center, Rooms C & D, where we have our monthly meetings. We will then have a delicious “Little Italy Buffet.” Hybridizer Dave Bang will join us virtually to discuss his hybridizing process and his roses.
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