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May 1, 2-4:30 – Spring Grand Prix Rose Show at Cheekwood

The 2022 Spring Grand Prix Rose Show will be held during the Nashville Rose Society regularly scheduled monthly meeting on Sunday, May 1, 2022, in the Potter Room at Cheekwood. The Grand Prix is a rose show that is held at a NRS meeting and its purpose is to give members a chance to learn about and practice exhibiting roses.

The show will have two sections – Advanced Exhibitors and Novice Exhibitors. A Novice Exhibitor is a person who has never won a Blue Ribbon in an ARS sanctioned Rose Show with the exception of the Novice category. Having the two sections will give new exhibitors experience showing their roses with fairer competition.

Please note: The NRS Grand Prix rose shows are not sanctioned by the ARS.

A grooming room will be set up at 1:00pm. Consulting Rosarians will be available to teach how to groom roses to show.

While the judges are doing the judging, we will discuss spraying and other activities members should be doing in their gardens in May.

After the judging is over, the judges will explain to our members why they judged the roses the way they did – why the winning roses won and why some of the other roses didn’t.

Click here for the Grand Prix Show Schedule.

The mask mandate has been lifted at Cheekwood.

April 3, 2-4:30pm – Joanna Deck, “Spray and Fertilizer Program for Championship Roses”

Photo is of Joanna with her dog, Magnum, at the 2018
Tenarky District Fall Rose Show where she won the ARS National Portland Traveling Trophy along with 10 district challenge classes, hybrid tea queen, miniflora queen, and a few other best of classes.

Joanna Deck is a top exhibitor in the Tenarky District having won 68 Queens of Show which includes hybrid teas, miniatures, and minifloras and 47 district and national trophies. She is a member of the Memphis & Dixie Rose Society and lives in Sheridan, Arkansas.

At the April monthly meeting of the Nashville Rose Society, Joanna will discuss the rose fertilization method she has used in the past and the one she is transitioning to. She will talk a little about how she prepares blooms for a show and how she transports them.

Joanna has been growing roses for 34 years and have been showing them for 24 years. It all started with one neglected rose in the back yard of a rental house where she lived. She bought a book on how to care for roses, and the rose responded quite well so she bought about 18 more hybrid teas from local nurseries. When she relocated from there to another city and realized she wanted to take her roses with her should she move again, she decided to grow them in 15 gallon pots.

2021 09 NRS Rose Show Queen – Joanna Deck’s “My Mary Ann”

A few years after that, she joined the American Rose Society and then a local rose society. She learned about miniature roses and nurseries like The Mini Rose Garden and Nor’east Miniature Roses. Her collection of minis started to grow. Two years later she entered her first rose show and won some challenge classes. She was hooked. Joanna now grows 80 hybrid teas, 60 minis and minifloras, 6 floribundas, and 4 climbers in raised beds. She exhibits at rose shows that are within reasonable driving distance. She also like to share blooms with friends and neighbors. During the last five years, Joanna has been doing a little photography and arranging and has won several certificates and rosettes.

Good news! Belmont has removed their mask mandate!

The April meeting of the Nashville Rose Society will be held at the Ayers Academic Center (Rooms C & D) at Belmont University, 1515 Wedgewood Ave, Nashville, TN 37212, just off Wedgewood Avenue. Ayers Academic Center is Building #8 on the Belmont campus map, and is the building next to the Inman Center where the Frist Lecture Hall is located (location of previous NRS meetings).

Parking: The Ayers Academic Center is located at the corner of Wedgewood and 15th avenues on the northern front of campus. The entrance to the parking garages for both buildings is the same as we used last year. There are two elevator banks in the garage underneath the Ayers Academic Center – the South and North elevators. Members should park by, then use, the North elevators to the 4th floor. These open up directly across from our meeting room – which is Ayers C & D. It is not easy to find the meeting room from the South elevators!

April 2, 10:00am-12:00 – Hands-on Pruning Workshop

It is time to start planning to prune the roses for their new spring growth.

The Nashville Rose Society Consulting Rosarians are offering a hands-on pruning workshop on Saturday, April 2, 2022, at Lynda and Gordon McClellan’s garden near Opryland from 10 AM -12 PM. New members will have a chance to have hands-on experience with trimming roses by learning from experienced rosarians. Bring your gloves and your pruners.

The garden is located at 2615 Davidwood Court, Nashville 37214. For more information, call Marty Reich at 615-833-0791 or 615-319-9487. Learn more about pruning roses here.

March 19, 10:00am-12:00 – Hands-on Pruning Workshop

Sharpen your pruners and grab your gloves for the March Pruning Workshop to be held on Saturday, March 19, at Nancy Jones’ garden in Bellevue from 10:00am – 12:00. This is the perfect opportunity for new members to learn how to prune roses from Nashville Rose Society experienced rosarians.

Nancy’s garden is located at 130 Belle Glen Drive, Nashville 37221. For more information, call Marty Reich at 615-833-0791 or 615-319-9487. Learn more about pruning roses here.

March 6, 1:00-4:30pm – Andrew Barocco, “A Better Breeder”

NOTE! the March meeting will begin at 1:00 to accommodate our speaker’s flight time.

Please join us on Sunday, March 6, 2022, to hear Ancrew Barocco, Director of Breeding at The Antique Rose Emporium, cover the philosophy, science, genetics and techniques on how to be better rose hybridizer.

Andrew Barocco is also a graduate student under Dr. David H. Byrne, a Professor who holds the Basye Endowed Chair in Rose Genetics at the Horticultural Sciences department at Texas A&M University.

Andrew grew up in the Acadiana region of Southern Louisiana where he was strongly influenced by the Cajun culture and his Cajun heritage. He graduated from Louisiana State University in 2016 with an undergraduate degree in Horticulture.

He moved to Texas in 2017 to pursue his graduate degree under Dr. Byrne. His research is to determine the graft transferability of resistance to the Rose Rosette Virus. He also is interested in making wide and difficult species crosses in order to introgress new and valuable traits into commercial germplasm. In the future, he plans to double the chromosomes of promising Rose Rosette Virus resistant diploid species roses, thereby possibly increasing their fertility. Not long after moving to Texas, he began work at The Antique Rose Emporium. There, he took up the reins of reinvigorating the breeding program and being the new production manager.

The March meeting of the Nashville Rose Society will be held at the Ayers Academic Center (Rooms C & D) at Belmont University, 1515 Wedgewood Ave, Nashville, TN 37212, just off Wedgewood Avenue. Ayers Academic Center is Building #8 on the Belmont campus map, and is the building next to the Inman Center where the Frist Lecture Hall is located (location of previous NRS meetings).

Parking: The Ayers Academic Center is located at the corner of Wedgewood and 15th avenues on the northern front of campus. The entrance to the parking garages for both buildings is the same as we used last year. There are two elevator banks in the garage underneath the Ayers Academic Center – the South and North elevators. Members should park by, then use, the North elevators to the 4th floor. These open up directly across from our meeting room – which is Ayers C & D. It is not easy to find the meeting room from the South elevators!

If you wish to attend virtually, please see Marty’s email to NRS members. If you would like to attend as a virtual guest, please submit your request on the Ask a Consulting Rosarian form on the website.