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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!

The Nashville Rose Society Programming Committee and the Executive Committee members are working hard to plan the Calendar of Events for 2022. The schedule is subject to change, but you should pencil in these events so that you will not miss any of the informative meetings and workshops to help you grow and show beautiful roses in the new year.

Monthly meetings will normally be held from 2-4:00pm on the first Sunday of the month at Belmont in Ayers C & D (at least through June 2022). The plan is to return to Cheekwood once the renovations of Botanic Hall are completed.

2022 Calendar of Events (as of January 1, 2022)

February 6 – Meeting at Belmont, Matt Douglas, Owner of High Country Roses
February 18-20 – Tenarky Winter Workshop and CR school at Belmont
March 3-6 – Nashville Lawn and Garden Show at the Fairgrounds
March 6 – Meeting at Belmont, Andrew Barocco, Antique Rose Emporium
March 19 – Pruning Clinic at Nancy Jones’ garden
March 28 – Vendor Day at S&W Greenhouse
April 2 – Pruning Clinic at Linda and Gordon McClellan’s garden
April 3 – Meeting at Belmont, Joanna Deck, “Spray and Fertilizer Program for Championship Roses”
April 4 – Rose Care Workshop at Belmont
May 1 – NRS Grand Prix Rose Show at Belmont, Speakers Ralph & Jean Stream, “Exhibiting Roses/Winning Arrangements”
June 5 – Meeting at Belmont, Master Gardener of Davidson County, “Native Bee Farming”
July 10 – Note: second Sunday of July due to July 4th holiday, Susan Lyell Young, Owner of Restoration Rose Farm
August 7 – Linda Jansing, “How Judges Judge Show Roses”
September 11 – Note: second Sunday of September due to Labor Day holiday, NRS Grand Prix Rose Show
October 2 – Program TBD
November 6 – Gerry Mahoney, “Josephine’s Gardens at MalMaison”
December 4 – NRS Christmas Party