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May 18 – Bowling Green Rose Show, 1:00 – 4:00pm

The 2019 Bowling Green Rose Society Rose Show is on May 18, 2019, from 1:00 to 4:00 pm. The show will be held at the American Legion Building, Dishman Lane, Bowling Green, KY 42101.

BGRS invites all Nashville Rose Society members to come and exhibit at the show! Entries may be made from 7-10 am. We are a small show and would love to have exhibitors from NRS!

Click here for our Rose Show Schedule.

For more information, visit the Bowling Green Rose Society website at http://www.bowlinggreenrosesociety.org/.

Free to the Public!

For a full listing of show winners click here (pdf).

May 5 – Harris Green, Do’s & Don’ts of Adding Woodscapes to Your Garden

Harris Green, Co-Founder of Orlinda Furniture Co. in Orlinda, TN will be speaking on the “Do’s & Don’ts of Adding Woodscapes to Your Garden”.

Harris, who specializes in custom wood furniture and structures, will cover everything from pergolas, trellises and arbors to outdoor furniture and small garden structures. He’ll explain how to select the right wood, the differences in wood stains, show a variety of wood framing styles and even discuss how to protect your structures from destructive insects.

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At Orlinda Furniture Co, Harris creates unique products made with hand selected raw materials from fallen barns across Tennessee. If you’re thinking about adding a wood structure to your garden, come and learn everything you need to know about what to do and what to avoid from a master craftsman.

The May meeting of NRS will be held on Sunday, May 5, 2019, 2:00 – 4:00pm, in the Potter Room at Cheekwood.

Cheekwood 2018 Century Star Award Presented to NRS

On March 25, 2019, as Nashville Rose Society members were hard at work in the Cheekwood Rose Study Garden pruning, checking pH, and fertilizing the roses, Cheekwood’s Director of Volunteer Services Amy Walter presented our society with the Cheekwood 2018 Century Star Award for providing more than 100 hours of volunteer service during 2018. The award is presented to the organization with the most volunteer hours during the year.

The Nashville Rose Society members are solely responsible for maintaining the Rose Study Garden.

2018 Century Star Award presented to co-presidents John Wendler and Ron Daniels by Cheekwood’s Director of Volunteer Services, Amy Walter (right)

April Rose Growing Notes

by Marty Reich, Master Rosarian, Editor of the Rose Leaf

So you have pruned your roses and cleaned up the beds some time around now. It is still too early to pull the mulch very far away. We could have a freeze until the middle of April and did last year. If you spray, you have done that as well, soaking the mulch as well as the almost bare bushes. It is so much better to get ahead of blackspot and spray routinely than to let it get ahead of you.
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