Category: Events_archives_2025

The Memphis Rose Society is thrilled to host the 2025 Tenarky District Convention & Rose Show! The convention and rose show will be held at the Germantown Presbyterian Church, 2363 South Germantown Road, Germantown, TN 38138 on Friday, October 3, through Sunday, October 5,2025. This will be the first show hosted by the Memphis Rose Society since 2018, making it a long-overdue and much-anticipated event!

Show time is Saturday, October 4, from 1 to 4 pm. Set up will be done on Friday, October 3, if anyone is interested and available to help.

Event Highlights:

Friday Social Hour – October 3rd: Join us after show setup for a casual gathering to mingle and kick off the weekend with friends, old and new!

Banquet Speaker – Lisa Schaff: Lisa will present “Fresh Cuts: Roses for the Tenarky Garden” at our Saturday evening banquet.

Program by Camp Creek: “Landscaping with Native Plants” – a fantastic opportunity to learn how to incorporate native beauty into your garden.

Fundraiser: We’re hosting a fundraiser to help finance the event, with incredible prizes generously provided by our sponsors: American Rose Society, Jackson & Perkins, Heirloom Roses, and many more! Come and show your support and take home some wonderful prizes!

Sunday Garden Tours: For those staying through the weekend, we’re organizing some beautiful garden tours on Sunday afternoon, October 5th.

The convention hotel is the Holiday Inn Express located at 7784 Wolf Trail Cove, Germantown, TN 38138. A limited number of rooms have been reserved at a special rate – King-$128, 2 Queens-$134 + 19.75% tax. Reservations must be made by noon on Monday, September 8.

Click here for the hotel link. The hotel phone number is 901-309-6700.

A special thank You to Our Rose Family! We are incredibly grateful to all our volunteers who have stepped up to make this show a success. Also, thank you to everyone who supported our Proven Winners fundraiser — your contributions made a big impact!

Let’s make this show one to remember!

With warm wishes,
The Memphis Rose Society

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We are so excited to have Gracie Poulson from Grace Rose Farm as our virtual guest speaker at our October 6, 2025, meeting of the Nashville Rose Society. Even though virtual, it will only be available to those attending the meeting in person.

The meeting will be held in the Massey Auditorium of Botanic Hall / Visitor Services Building at Cheekwood Estate & Gardens. The meetings are free to guests, as is admission to Cheekwood for meetings. Simply tell the gate attendant that you are there for the Nashville Rose Society meeting.

See you there!

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Fall is one of the most beautiful times for our rose blooms! Hopefully, the brutal summer heat is on its way OUT!!

The Nashville Rose Society 2025 Fall Grand Prix Rose Show will be held during the regularly scheduled monthly meeting on Monday, September 8, 2025, in the Massey Auditorium of Botanic Hall / Visitor Services Building at Cheekwood Garden and 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 5:00 pm. 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. This show is an excellent opportunity to learn how to enter your roses in the 2025 Music City Rose Show to be held at Cheekwood on Saturday, September 13, and the Tenarky District Fall Convention & Rose Show on Saturday, October 4, 2025 in Germantown, TN.

Click here to open the schedule for the Grand Prix.

The 2024 Tenarky Rose Show schedule will be discussed and there will be members who can help you fill out the tags that go on your entries.

Please note: The NRS Grand Prix rose shows are not sanctioned by the American Rose Society .

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The August meeting of the Nashville Rose Society will be held on Monday (Note the day!), August 4, 2025, in the Massey Auditorium at Cheekwood Estate & Gardens. Our speaker is Dr. James (Jim) Sproul. Jim will be joining us virtually at 6:00pm to discuss his experiences growing roses from seeds and hybridizing new roses. Hospitality will begin at 5:00pm and NRS Business and Rose Care topics will be at 5:30pm.

Jim is a recently retired family-medicine doctor who enjoys having more time to focus on his family and on his rose breeding program. He has been growing roses from seeds for 40 years. Early on he planted seeds from open pollinated rose hips that he gathered from his neighborhood and local rose gardens. It wasn’t long before he realized that a greater range of seedlings would be possible by purposefully crossing one rose with another.

Jim’s goal is to produce novel rose seedlings that also have good health. Named roses that he has hybridized include ‘Honey Dijon’, ‘Brick House® Pink’, ‘Candy Sunblaze’®, Heather Sproul’, the Eyeconic® series and ‘Thrive!’. Mentored by Mr. Ralph Moore, he has a great love for miniature and Hulthemia (a wild rose species from the plateau of central Asia) roses. His first named rose to combine these traits is ‘Diane Sommers’. His newest rose introduced by Star Roses is ‘PowerPuff™ Pink’.

Save the date! The 2025 Nashville Rose Show will be held on Saturday, September 13 at Cheekwood.

The Cheekwood Estate and Gardens is located at 1200 Forrest Park Dr, Nashville, Tennessee 37205. The meetings are free to guests, as is admission to Cheekwood for meetings. Simply tell the gate attendant that you are there for the Nashville Rose Society meeting.

We look forward to seeing you at our August meeting!

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