Category: Rose Events

Hot off the Press! 2019 NRS Rose Show Schedule

Rose Garden at Belmont University
Photo by Mary Weber
The Nashville Rose Society will hold its Annual Rose Show on September 28 & 29, 2019, at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee. Admission and parking are both FREE to the public from 1:00 to 4:30 PM on Saturday September 28th and from 11:00 AM to 4:30 PM on Sunday September 29th.

Click here for the Rose Show Schedule.

For more information, see the post on the Meeting & Events page.

Tuesday for Tots at Cheekwood – Almost 150 Tots and Adults Participated

Paper doily flowers
On Tuesday April 9th, 2019, the Nashville Rose Society partnered with Cheekwood Estate & Gardens in their Tuesdays for Tots program. Tuesdays for Tots provides art and garden adventures for toddlers. On April 9, NRS, led by Lani Rossmann treated the tots to two activities associated with flowers – “Paper Plate Garden” and “Paper Doily Flowers”.

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ARS National Convention and Rose Show in San Diego


by Mary Ann Hext, Consulting Rosarian

On Wednesday, October, 24, we took our dogs, Annie and Lindy, for another boarding experience at Greystone and drove to the airport to fly to San Diego for my last ARS Board of Directors meeting as our Tenarky District Director. The three years in this position have flown by and have kept me very very busy with rose events, activities, meetings, local society visits, district and national conventions, ARS committee work, and lots of traveling, but I have enjoyed the experience and made many many new rose friends from across the country.
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One of the World’s Leading Breeders of Roses to Speak at Belmont University

For Immediate Release
September 26, 2018

Christian Bedard, Research Director and Licensing Manager, Weeks Roses
On October 21, 2018, Christian Bedard, one of the foremost breeders of roses in the world, will speak at Belmont University at an event hosted by the Nashville Rose Society. The event will be held from 2:00-5:00 p.m. in the Frist Lecture Hall, which is located in the Gordon E. Inman Center atBelmont University, 1515 Wedgewood Ave, Nashville, TN 37212. Parking and admission to the event are both FREE to the public.
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