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Don’t miss the fun! The Nashville Rose Society July meeting will include a silent auction, ice cream social, and a presentation by Bette Ann Fields, District II Director of the Tennessee Federation of Garden Clubs. Bette Ann’s topic will be “Flower Arranging for Your Home, the Season, or a Friend”. The meeting will be held in the Massey Auditorium of Botanic Hall / Visitor Services Building at Cheekwood Estate and Gardens.

Growing up in the Northeast, young Bette Ann Fields accompanied her mother to flower shows and gardening events, taking an early interest in successful growing techniques and award-winning flower arrangements. Later, after retiring from a 25-year career in Diagnostic Radiology, Bette Ann pursued her love of horticulture and floral design in earnest — becoming a Master Flower Show Judge and Master Landscape Designer. She became active in the Nashville Rose Society. Today, she is a Lifetime Member of National Garden Clubs, Deep South Garden Clubs, and Tennessee Federation of Garden Clubs, Inc. She maintains a busy schedule attending most state, regional and national garden club conventions, as well as Creative Flower Arrangers of America’s annual forum in Florida.

Don’t forget – The July meeting will be the SECOND Sunday of July, due to the 4th of July holiday.

Do you make homemade ice cream? Please bring your favorite! Attendees will vote for the best ice cream. Yum!!

Arrive for the meeting about 1:00pm if you have items for the silent auction. Bidding will begin at 1:30pm and continue during the ice cream social from 1:30 – 2:00pm. Bette Ann’s program will begin at 2:00pm and bidding will close at 3:30pm.

A silent auction was one of the suggestions to raise funds for the NRS resulting from the recent member survey. Start planning now for what you will bring for the auction. Suggested items include baked goods, garden produce, gardening items such as gloves, trowels, etc., flower arranging items such as vases or Kenzan/frogs, flower arrangements, and plants.

After the ice cream winners are announced and the bidding is closed, Ron Daniels will have a short presentation on drip irrigation. With the heat of the summer just beginning, drip irrigation is a good way to make sure your roses get the water they need.

Admission to Cheekwood is not required – let the gate attendant know that you are attending the NRS Meeting in Botanic Hall. The Cheekwood Campus Map shows the location of Botanic Hall.

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Hosted by Sumner County Master Gardeners

The Sumner County Master Gardeners invite you to join us for our 3rd annual self-guided tour of some of Sumner County’s most unique and beautiful gardens. Rain or Shine. Admission is free. Experience five colorful and creative gardens throughout Sumner county.

Begin your tour at any location:

122 Tamaras Way, Hendersonville
Cathy Davidson, a Master Gardner for 25+ years, uses water features and painted garden art as the focal points for her backyard garden. With an eye for both color and texture, she uses striking ground covers and a beautiful palette of trellis climbers, such as native trumpet honeysuckle, and cottage flowers including hydrangea, daylillies, poppies, iris, and coreopsis to give a sensory experience and create a happy habitat for birds and pollinators.

130 Riviera Drive, Hendersonville
Experienced gardener John Hicks built a wealth of knowledge about shade-loving plants in the years he spent transforming his yard into a woodland oasis. Japanese maples, hydrangeas, ferns and hostas, including Empress Wu, the world’s largest hosta, line the paths surrounding a babbling waterfall to create a peaceful garden. John lost a few trees after the December tornado and used it as an opportunity to plant a bed of wildflowers.

1164 Kimberly Drive, Goodlettsville
Container gardener Dan Sheppard creates a cozy outdoor sanctuary surrounded by vibrant gardens planted in his eclectic terracota pot collection. Bamboo provides privacy and shade behind a fish pond and patio entertainment area, which is bordered with a sloped garden filled with cone flowers, clematis, rhododendron, bottlebrush buckeyes, hydrangeas and more.

1280 Goshentown Road, Hendersonville
Bruce and Alice Mitchell created a rustic, whimsical paradise on this tucked away wooded property with a log home and structures reminencent of the county’s early history. Gardens are filled with native wildflowers, sun and shade-loving plants, and artistic features built from materials on property, including a tree decorated with blue glass bottles and a vegetable garden fence and trellis made from tree limbs. There’s even a koi pond.

441 Gibbs Lane, Gallatin
Since staring Okrashire Farm in 2018, owners Bob and Jennifer Kuhle have incorporated ecologically sound practices, which helped them earn certification as a Tennessee Smart Yard. A greenhouse and rain water collection system help support the self-sustaining farm, which is known for its acres of wildflowers. Colorful zinnias, cosmos, black-eyed Susan and bachelor’s buttons surround a charming shed and fairy garden, where bee balm, lavender, yarrow and herbs grow. Along with an orchard, a shade garden and milkweed areas, this garden is a butterfly and bee haven. Vegetables are grown, too, and Jennifer makes unique okra ornaments, which will be available for purchase.

Click here for printable pdf of the Garden Tour.

Restrooms are NOT available.

Tours are free to the public. Donations support Master Gardener Projects in Sumner county.

Questions? Call Sumner County Extension Office (615) 452-1423

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We are very excited about the June 2, 2024, meeting of the Nashville Rose Society which will be a walking tour of three member rose gardens in East Nashville! Please return to this web post for any weather related updates.

The NRS business meeting will be held at 1:30 at the garden of C.I. Aki and Jen Yoder’s Boscobel Garden. BRING A CHAIR! After touring the Boscobel Garden, we will walk to two other nearby gardens of Liz Louie and Ashley King, returning to the C.I. and Jen’s garden for snacks and refreshments.

Each of the gardens is unique.

Mixing the elegant with the wild, Boscobel Gardens draw on the charms of old English cottage gardens with David Austin climbers and shrubs, and a mix of wild grandifloras that lead down a path towards a small rose forest of hybrid tea roses, floribundas, and more climbers. Jasmine, wisteria, and honeysuckle vines add an infusion of warm fragrance to the burst of rose bushes and perennial flowers. Sets of bistro chairs and tables spread along the grass for taking in the moment while a bamboo grove looks out from the back of the garden.

Liz’s Rose Medley is a collection of roses mainly in containers and pots. There’s no rhyme or reason to placement of roses. They just end up where there’s space or by whim. Be prepared, it’s a yard in constant flux, not a garden (yet).

Ashley King’s Holly Street front garden is a mix of roses and other perennials. It is always changing, and this year represents a garden that finds a way to bloom even when it cannot be cared for in the way it would best flourish. No pesticides are used due to butterfly host gardens in the back, so she relies mostly on beneficial insects and soil health. This season’s garden message is “Enjoy the blooms even when garden life and regular life get chaotic! ” 

Click here for a copy of the flyer.

We look forward to seeing you at the East Nashville Rose Crawl. Please see Marty’s email to NRS members with more details and garden addresses.

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