The Nashville Rose Society serves all of Middle Tennessee by sharing knowledge and information about our national flower, the rose.
BGRS invites all Nashville Rose Society members to come and exhibit at the show! Entries may be made from 7-10 am. We are a small show and would love to have exhibitors from NRS!
The theme for the show and artistic rose designs is “Mama Liked the Roses – Remembering Elvis Movies”.
Click here for our Rose Show Schedule.
For more information, visit the Bowling Green Rose Society website at http://www.bowlinggreenrosesociety.org/.
Free to the Public!
Ron Daniels, co-president of the Nashville Rose Society and Master Rosarian, will host his Gadwall Abbey’s Rose Garden Tour on Saturday, May 21, 10am – 4pm, and on Sunday, May 25, 1pm – 5pm, at 1000 Gadwall Circle, Hendersonville, TN 37075.
Ron has over 150 roses of all types and many companion plants in his Gadwall Abbey Garden. Ron’s garden produces many Rose Show winners and has been featured on Talk of the Town.
If you have not seen Ron’s garden, put this on your calendar!
The Nashville Rose Society Spring New Member Workshop will be held on Saturday, May 7, 2022, from 10-12:00pm at Cheekwood.
The workshop will start in the Potter Meeting Room in Botanic Hall where Ron Daniels, NRS Co-President, will give his PowerPoint presentation on “Growing and Caring for Roses. The second half of the workshop will be a number of hands-on demonstrations in the Rose Study Workshop.
This is a perfect opportunity to learn more about caring for roses as well as to experience the beautiful Rose Study Garden at Cheekwood.
This workshop is open to ALL members. Admission to Cheekwood is not required for NRS Workshop attendees.
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.
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.
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!