The Nashville Rose Society serves all of Middle Tennessee by sharing knowledge and information about our national flower, the rose.
Ron Daniels, NRS Co-President, will present the spring time tasks for growing and caring for roses, including location of beds, building the beds, amending the soil, water requirements, and checking pH. Once you are ready to plant, how should you select the type of rose to buy? Find out at the February meeting!
The meeting will be held from 2:00 – 4:00 in the Potter Room at Cheekwood.
As I look back on my experiences with growing roses for the last 28 years, I remember who introduced me to the love of roses and was kind enough to mentor me. This fine gentleman was John Curtis, or as NRS members referred to him, “The Rose Farmer”. He earned that name because of his commitment to organic methods of growing roses.
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The Nashville Rose Society presented 2018 awards to members for outstanding service at the Christmas dinner held on December 3 at Belmont University.
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The 2019 Executive Committee of the Nashville Rose Society was announced by Ron Daniels, NRS President, at the December 3, 2018, meeting and Christmas dinner.
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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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