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The Medley of Roses – 2026 ARS Convention & Rose Show Committee is working hard to make sure everyone has a wonderful experience and we would like to share our news with you.

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While you are on the Medley of Roses website, look around to see all the events, speakers, and activities we have planned. You won’t want to miss it!

Saturday, May 23 – 1-4:00pm – Bowling Green Rose Society Annual Rose Show

Come to the Celebrate America 250 Bowling Green Rose Society Annual Rose Show on May 23, 2026, 1-4 pm! The show will be held at the American Legion Post #23, 208 Dishman Lane, Bowling Green, KY 42101. Doors will open for exhibitors at 6:30 a.m. CDT. Entries may be placed from 7am. until 10am. Judging begins at 10:15am.

Click here to see the Rose Show schedule.

The show is open and free to the public from 1-4:00 pm.

For more information, visit www.bowlinggreenrosesociety.org.

A Message from the Bowling Green Rose Society President

W E L C O M E . . .

As president of the Bowling Green Rose Society, I would like to take this opportunity to welcome each of you to our annual rose show and extend a special thank you to all exhibitors for sharing your beautiful roses with us. The work and dedication needed to produce such beautiful roses is greatly appreciated. For those traveling from out of town, you’ve truly gone the extra mile!

As always, I want to welcome and thank those individuals who through many years of hard work, dedication and training have acquired the skills necessary to become rose show judges. In sharing your expertise, you promote the excitement of competition and further educate exhibitors in the art of showing roses.

Our rose show would not be successful without the cooperative effort of many people in the community. We greatly appreciate the financial support of our sponsors and the use of the American Legion Post 23 facility. I would especially like to thank BGRS members, family and friends for their hours of work before, during and after the show.

For those from the community who have honored us with your presence to view the eautiful display of roses, I thank you and would like to take this opportunity to invite you to become a member of the Bowling Green Rose Society. If you have any questions, feel free to talk with any BGRS member.

Enjoy the show!
Linda Ford, BGRS President

NRS Constitution & Bylaws Revised and Approved

The NRS Constitution and Bylaws have been updated and approved by membership at the February, 2026, meeting. The previous version of these documents was April 24, 2017.

Some of the changes were based on IRS requirements to other Rose Societies and others were made based on changes with the times. For example:
– verbiage was added that votes could be taken at virtual meetings, not just in-person,
– allowing co-presidents to be the same as an individual president (ie, Ron and John, and Janie and Liz)
– requiring that a financial audit be conducted every year
– requiring that a tax return be filed every year (we could lose our non-profit status if this is not done)
– specifying that membership expiration notices may be by email, not the label on the snail-mail
– meetings will be held monthly, not specifying the day of the month

For a copy of the Constitution of the Nashville Rose Society (Revised by NRS Executive Committee January 18, 2026 and approved by membership), click here.

Registration now Open for 2026 ARS Rose Show & Convention

The Medley of Roses – 2026 American Rose Society Convention and Rose Show will be held in Nashville, Tennessee, October 2-5, 2026, at the Sheraton Music City Nashville Airport Hotel.

Registration is now open!

Robin Jennings, Senior Brand Marketing Manager at Heirloom Roses
We have a great line up of speakers including Robin Jennings, Senior Brand Marketing Manager at Heirloom Roses (soon to be rebranded Heirloom since they sell much more than roses). Robin was recently a guest of Teresa Byington on the RoseChat Pod cast. Robin shares “Finding Your Bloomate, Lessons from the Philadelphia Flower Show”.

Listen to Teresa and Robin’s Podcast to get an idea of the excitement and energy that our speakers will bring to the Medley of Roses – 2026 American Rose Society Convention and Rose Show.

For the complete list of speakers, click here. Many of our sessions qualify for ARS Consulting Rosarian credit.

We hope to see you at the convention in October!

Feb 27-28, 2026 – Tenarky District Mid-Winter Workshop & Photo Contest

by Howard Carman, Tenarky District Director

Another year of growing roses has passed and what a year it was for the local rose societies of Tenarky. There were nice rose shows in Bowling Green, Nashville, Louisville and a GREAT 2025 Tenarky Convention and Rose Show in Memphis. The Memphis Rose Society did a fantastic job with providing an outstanding venue for our members to show our roses. These shows are important for two reasons, showing new people how nice roses can be and the opportunity for rose growers to show and get rewarded for all their hard work tending their roses throughout the year.

Our Tenarky Mid-Winter Workshop & Photo Contest is to be held in Bowling Green on February 27-28, 2026. I have reserved a larger room so that we will be able to have the vendors in the same room as the meeting. We have speakers lined up for great programs.

Sonja Lallemand, Editor of Illinois-Indiana District, will be speaking on Old Garden Roses, and you will enjoy her French pronunciation of rose names. Natalie Carmolli from Proven Winners is joining us virtually as well as providing some roses, then we also have Joe and Carrie Berg as our last speakers of the day presenting a program called “He says, she says”.

I will be bringing some potted roses for auction and selling with all the proceeds going to Tenarky, I have a couple of Dave Bang roses that I bought from K & M Roses when they had them discounted that I will donate to Tenarky also. I look forward to seeing everyone.

The meeting will be held at the Holiday Inn University Plaza at 1021 Wilkinson Trace, Bowling Green, KY 42103, phone 270-745-0088. The hotel has provided a link here for reservations. The room block name is “Tenarky District of the American Rose Society Winter Workshop”. The hotel cutoff for reduced rate is January 27, 2026.

Here is the information you need!

Registration Form
Schedule of Events and Speakers
Photo Contest Schedule

Register Now!! We hope to see you in Bowling Green!