By Jeri Jennings, Ventura County Rose Society I said: “HEY! See you next weekend at the rose show!” You replied: “Rose show? Oh, no! I don’t go to rose shows. I’m not interested.” Not interested? You’re a member of a rose society, and you’re “not interested” in rose shows? I don’t understand how that can [...]

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We visited the Moore-Turner Gardens in June. Very nice. I’ve uploaded some pics to our Facebook page: Moore-Turner Heritage Gardens. Check ‘em out. No tags for this post.

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Photos and the winners list for the arrangements section of the 2011 Spokane Rose Show.

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The Rose Show for 2011 was a great success. While we didn’t have as many roses as we’d hoped, we had a lot more than we feared, especially in the mini categories. We also had a bunch of really nice arrangements, which will be in another post. Winners: The HMF links will take you to [...]

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Corbin & Moore-Turner Heritage Gardens The Corbin & Moore-Turner Heritage Gardens is our destination for June 12. Their website says: The Corbin & Moore-Turner Heritage Gardens were extensive and impressive residential landscapes reflecting a distinct way of life during the early development of Spokane, Washington.  This archaeological resource contains much of its original form and [...]

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The Spokane Rose Society and Northland Rosarium will beat the Garden Expo on Saturday the 14th. SRS will have a bunch of mini roses for sale, $8 each, as well as info about the clubs and answers to questions you might have about growing roses in a zone 5 area. Northland Rosarium will have additional [...]

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Ok, this post is a bit late, but better late than never, right? Our annual mini rose sale will happen on Saturday, May 14, at the 2011 Garden Expo. Spokane Community College 1810 N. Greene St., Spokane, Washington 99217 The 2011 Mini Rose Sale page is up with pictures of the roses that will be [...]

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First off I would like to give a great big THANKS! to Susan Mulvihill of The Spokesman-Review for her wrrite up of the show. We saw a lot of new faces this year and the ones I asked all said that they read about it “in the paper:” Every rose has its admirer Hopefully next year [...]

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Why? Because a rose show is filled with roses! All sizes and varieties! Such a sight to behold. It is fun to walk through the aisles, looking at the roses that you’ve only seen…

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On Tuesday, June 8 we had our First Annual Rose Arranging Class in the meeting room at Manito Park. Our able teacher was Heather Figg. Heather is an experienced, award-winning arranger and a patient teacher. All who attended gained some very valuable hands-on experience arranging roses and other flowers. It was a bit early for [...]

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