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 the specific rose on HelpMeFind.com.
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 material that is easily identifiable as a designed landscape reflecting the Arts and Crafts movement in America. In May 2000, the Moore-Turner Garden was placed on the Spokane Register of Historic Places. The D.C. Corbin House register listing was amended to include the Corbin Heritage Garden. The Corbin & Moore-Turner Heritage Gardens project is the first residential landscape of its kind in the state of Washington.
Gwynne and I visited it before it opened and it looks like it should be a nice visit. This is not a tour, just a “go and see what’s there.”
The garden is mostly flat, but it’s on a hillside and has gravel paths. We weren’t able to go in, but it looked to be very nice. I have no idea what the roses will look like on the 12th, but maybe we’ll get lucky and see come nice blooms.
The Rose Show will be at Northland Rosarium this year (see below for map.) This will give people an opportunity to check out the Rosarium, in addition to the show. We’ll also have Lynn Schafer, Carol Newcomb, and Ping Lim (more about Ping and his roses is here.)
If you have a few, or a bunch of, nice blooms in your yard then bring them by the show and we’ll show you how best to present them. If you are going to bring your own roses, here are a couple of easy steps to follow:
Keep as much stem as possible. We can trim it at the show, if necessary.
Keep the leaves!
Put the stems in water as soon as you clip them and bring them to the show that way.
The bloom should be just starting to open.
You do have to know the name of your rose and it has to have been grown in your yard.
We have a wide variety of categories and arrangements, so we should be able to find a class for any rose you might have. You can see all the show rules here.
Here’s a gorgeous orange-pink Floribunda rose that’s new for this year. It’s a small to medium sized bush that’ll be a nice fit for that little spot right there. Or use it to make a border.
Registration name: HARpageant
Exhibition name: Easy Does It
Orange-pink blend, moderate, fruity fragrance.
Flowers are about 4″, full (26-40 petals), in small clusters, with a scalloped bloom form. Continuous bloom throughout the season.
Height of 3′ to 4′ (90 to 120 cm).
Can be used for beds and borders, cut flower or garden. Vigorous. Disease resistant.
Easy Does It
You can get Easy Does It, on it’s own roots, at the Northland Rosarium. Will you be able to see one at the 2011 rose show? Maybe, it’s been a late, cool, wet spring, so who knows? We might have to show off our phlox or other early bloomers instead of roses.
How’s this for a pretty rose? Purple Splash was introduced in 2010. It’s a small climber, reaching to maybe 6′ in our zone 5 area, but will likely get bigger elsewhere. One comment says 7 – 9′ in one season, but that’s in S. California.
It doesn’t have much fragrance, darn, but blooms in clusters as you can see.
You can get Purple Splash, on its own roots, for $15.95 from Northland Rosarium.
I don’t know that we’ll have any of these on display at the 2011 Spokane Rose Show, but maybe we’ll get lucky.
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 roses, garden stuff, answers to questions, and more.
Come on by and say Hi. Both of us will be located at the stairwell in the main lobby of the student’s lair.
We received a question about growing roses that will bloom in the spring in zone 5. If you’re talking late spring, then Ok.
Here’s the answer that our expert Rosarian, Lynn, gave:
Looking at this spring, even our maples are not budding out very quickly, so that would give you some indication that Spokane weather is not conducive to spring blooming roses. That said, some of the Old Garden Roses are earlier than their modern offspring. The catch with those is they often are once-blooming, so you don’t get your recurrent bloom the rest of the year.
I honestly cannot tell you any rose that will give you that early a bloom and continue through the year. Personally, I am willing to wait to see the roses begin to bloom in June and continue on through sometimes October here. Our climate definitely has a dormant season, and this year it has been very prolonged. I fill in the spring with tulips and daffodils until the roses bloom.
In early April we cut most of our roses back to the ground or close to it. All of ours are on their own roots, so they’ll grow back as the same rose. It was a tough winter, but a couple of ours came through Ok.
Our Erinnerung an Brod, which is on a trellis up against the house came through nicely. We’re looking forward to those deliciously fragrant blooms.It has several canes in the 6 to 10′ range.
We have an Indigo which looks like it will need no pruning. The canes are about 3′ high.
I think we’ll have plenty of nice blooms for the Rose Show in late June. It will be held at Northland Rosarium this year. Bring your own roses and we’ll show you how to display them.
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 will be a lot better for growing and showing. This year was “interesting” with a couple of badly timed freezes and the late rain. One person (from Montana?) mentioned that she lost 300 roses (out of 323) over the winter. Ouch.
Still, a lot of nice roses (and their growers) did show up. We took a ton of photos and will be posting some of them soon.A lot of new people showed up, asked lots of questions, and admired and sniffed a lot of roses. Maybe we’ll see some of them at the meetings.
If you want to try showing your roses in the 2011 show give it a shot. There are a lot of categories and some of those have only one entry (and some have none!) Why not put your rose there?
We also have a bunch of arrangement categories so try your hand at putting one or more together.
Here are some interesting articles on attending rose show and why you want to go!
Why?
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 be.
Without waxing poetical, there are two simple reasons why you should “bother” with rose shows. You go to rose shows, or take part in them, either to do good for yourself, or to do good to others. Some of you might go for both of those reasons.
I assume that you joined a rose society because you LIKE roses. You probably grow some roses. Perhaps you even grow a great many roses. You enjoy seeing roses, and being around people who share your interest in roses. You do, of course, find the requisite roses and lovers of roses at our monthly meetings, but that opens only a very small door to a very small sampling of the greater world of roses.
At a rose show, usually for free, you will see, smell, touch, and enjoy roses that, in all probability, you will never see in your neighborhood nursery. At a rose show, you will have the opportunity to pick the brains of the folks who GROW those unfamiliar, tantalizingly lovely roses. With the beauty that a rose show rolls out in front of you I can’t see why ANY lover of roses would NOT want to take advantage of the opportunity to take part, or at LEAST to go to a rose show!
Here’s the rest of this article by the Pacific Southwest District of the American Rose Society: Rose Shows? Why Bother?
8 Good Reasons on Why We Show Roses
Why do we show roses? Most of the readers of this article already have a pretty good idea of the answer to this question. Others I suspect would like to learn that answer. I begin this discussion with a series of articles addressed primarily to the novice rose exhibitor and I think a good place to start is to address the question of why you should consider showing your roses at rose shows. There are, as you will learn, many reasons. Here are eight good ones in reverse order for you to consider.
#8. You Will Help Your Rose Society
A central activity of nearly every rose society is the annual sponsorship of a rose show. In this activity the rose society comes together with a common purpose. The task is not easy; there is much work to do. You belong to your rose society and hopefully gain advantage in doing so. Without rose exhibitors there can be no rose show despite all our hard work. So by entering even one rose bloom you help your rose society. Call it “solidarity”; whatever you will show you care.
Why would anyone want to get up at 5:00 AM, drive 100 miles to enter a show with hardcore exhibitors?!
Because it is fun.
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 in catalogs or on the internet, checking out the size and color, sticking your nose in it to see if it is fragrant. Sometimes, you’ll be lucky enough to see the person who exhibited it and can ask them questions about it, how it grows for them. Getting knowledge of a rose from a local rosarian is invaluable!
Because a rose show is filled with rosarians! People like you who love roses. After their entries are in (and sometimes while they are prepping them) most exhibitors love to talk about their roses!
June 28, 2011 
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