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Arranging with Roses – Lanni Webb, NRS Member

Lonnie Webb, NRS Member, and Floral Arranger

While the judges were judging the 2023 Fall Grand Prix entries, Lanni Webb shared information on how to make award winning floral arrangements.

Lanni demonstrated and explained the guidelines of three types of arrangement designs – traditional, modern, and Oriental (East Asian).

Traditional Designs
Modern Design
Oriental (East Asian) Design

Lanni also reviewed the ARS Score Card for Judging, explaining how the 100 possible points that the arrangement is judged by, are allocated.

To see Lanni’s PowerPoint presentation, click here. Her main message – “Have Fun with It!”

Lanni has been a member of NRS for 13 years and has won awards at rose shows, including the Nashville Rose Shows and the Wilson County Fair Rose Shows. She has many roses in her garden and spends much time doing flowers for weddings, showers and other events for family and friends.

October 1, 2-4:00 pm – “Nash Creek Farm” Tour and Monthly Meeting

The October monthly meeting of the Nashville Rose Society will be held at the Nash Creek Farm, owned by NRS members Tina and Tony Roy, on October 1, 2023, from 2-4:00pm. NOTE: This is a change from our previously published meeting scheduled on October 8.

The Farm is a micro cut flower farm, located at 5045 Clarksville Highway, Whites Creek, TN, 10 minutes north of Nashville (five minutes from Bates Nursery).

Tina and Tony grow over 50 varieties of flowers such as sunflowers, zinnias, cosmos, snapdragons, celosia, amaranth, ranunculus, tulips, etc. Their greatest love and specialty is Dahlias – they grow over 5000 plants and 150+ varieties. Over the last two years, they have started to learn about roses and now grow about 75 young plants.

Nash Creek Farm sells flowers to local florists, restaurants, salons and farmers markets as well as creating floral designs for parties, weddings and other events. They also do u-picks, allowing the community to walk around and cut their own vase of flowers.

The meeting will include a talk by Tony and Tina on growing and caring for Dahlias. During the Farm tour, attendees will be able to cut their own flowers, five or so dahlias and any other variety that is blooming, for $35 which includes a vase/jar.

Please send email to RSVP to Diane Coleman by September 27, 2023, if you are interested so they can have enough snips and vases available. This outdoor event will be held rain or shine (wear a raincoat!), unless the weather is potentially dangerous. If the event should be canceled, Marty will send out an email blast and notice will be posted on this website.

The Farm is a small, working farm so please wear closed toed shoes, bring a bottle of water (or your drink of choice), sunscreen and bug spray and a lawn chair if you want to hang out a bit. There is a small building with restrooms and air conditioning , as well as a covered porch with limited seating. Parking is limited, so PLEASE carpool if possible.

If you would like to see some photos of the flowers at the farm, you can view them on Nash Creek Farm Facebook and Instagram pages.

Come and enjoy the beautiful blooms! Many thanks to Tina and Tony Roy!

2023 Nashville Rose Society Annual Rose Show

Saturday, October 14 – 1 p.m.-5:00 p.m.

Sunday, October 15 – 11 a.m.-4:00 p.m.

Cheekwood Botanical Estate & Gardens

1200 Forrest Park Drive

Nashville, Tennessee 37205

Rose Study Garden – Photo Courtesy of Cheekwood Estate & Gardens
‘Crescendo’ Best Novice, King, Best in Show, 2022 Tenarky District Show, exhibited by Linda Bowen

The 2023 Nashville Rose Society Annual Show will be held at Cheekwood Estate & Gardens – Massey Auditorium on Saturday, October 14, and Sunday, October 15.

The preparation area will open at 6 a.m. on Saturday. Horticulture entries will be placed on the exhibition tables by show personnel from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. Challenge exhibits will be placed by the exhibitor. Judging will begin at 10:30 a.m.

To enter Cheekwood before 9:00 a.m., come through the back gate that is accessed off of Cheek Road, unload at the front or back of Botanic Hall, then park in one of the reserved parking spaces in Parking Lot A.

Click here for a copy of the Rose Show Schedule. Please note the updates made to page 14 (Rules 8, 10, 12) and page 16.

The Rose Show will be open to the public from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday, October 15.

NRS Rose Seminars

On Saturday at 2:30 p.m., Ron Daniels, ARS Master Rosarian and NRS Co-President, will present a free seminar to the public on the “Basics of Growing Roses”.

On Sunday, October 15, from 10 – 12:00 p.m. the Cheekwood Pick Your Own Bouquet Event (registration required) will include “Basics of Arranging” workshop led by Nashville Rose Society member, Bette Fields. This workshop will cover the basics of creating beautiful rose flower arrangements. Participants will leave with their own arrangement of roses from the Rose Study Garden. Ron Daniels will be available during the event to answer any questions about how to grow and care for roses.

Following the seminars on both days Ron will have a “Meet the Author & Book Signing” for his new book Rose Therapy.

We look forward to seeing you at the Nashville Rose Society Annual Rose Show!

Sept. 10, 2-4:30 – Fall Grand Prix Rose Show at Cheekwood

Previous Grand Prix winners for Large Roses (other than hybrid tea)
The 2023 Fall Grand Prix Rose Show will be held during the Nashville Rose Society regularly scheduled monthly meeting on Sunday, September 10, 2023, in the Massey Auditorium 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.

Lonnie Webb, NRS Member, and Floral Arranger
While the judges are judging the Grand Prix entries, Lanni Webb will be sharing information on how to make award winning floral arrangements. Lanni has been a member of NRS for 13 years and has won awards at rose shows, including the Nashville Rose Shows and the Wilson County Fair Rose Shows. She has many roses in her garden and spends much time doing flowers for weddings, showers and other events for family and friends.

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”.

Proven Winners – Roses and Companions

Learn all about roses in this fun and informative YouTube video from Proven Winners. Natalie Carmolli with Proven Winners® ColorChoice® Flowering Shrubs, discusses the history of roses, how to grow them, what varieties of roses they offer and what plants make great companions for planting with them. In addition, this 30 minute video shows some of the automation that Proven Winners uses in its greenhouses.

Three of Proven Winners lines of roses are:

Oso Easy Roses
Oso Easy roses are indeed easy to grow, and they offer the broadest color range of any landscape rose series plus surprising hardiness, with some varieties that thrive in USDA zone 3. Dark green foliage shows exceptional disease resistance, and tidy habits make them ideally suited to any sunny landscape.

Reminiscent Roses
This series of roses combines the lush, full, fragrant flowers you remember with modern day disease resistance and continuous blooming. Developed in Serbia, trialed and tested in Michigan, these roses bloom all summer without deadheading. They resist common rose diseases, like black spot and powdery mildew, and they are hardy and heat tolerant – they thrive in USDA zones 4-9.

Rise Up Roses
Cover your world in flowers with Rise Up climbing roses. These roses are super versatile: they can be grown on a post, trellis, railing, or fence, or in a garden bed. They bloom all summer without deadheading and resist common rose diseases, like black spot and powdery mildew.

As our friend Austin from Bates Nursery said at the July 2023 NRS monthly meeting, “Just look for the white container.”