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What is pH?

by Marty Reich, Master Rosarian

 

pH is a well known scientific term in today’s culture. We constantly hear about bath soaps and shampoos being pH balanced. However, as rosarians, we need to understand it a bit better than most people since the health of our roses depends on it.
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Author NRS EditorPosted on September 28, 2017December 19, 2017Categories Fertilizing, Locating and Preparing BedsTags fertilizing, ph, soil

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  • August 6, 8:30am-3:30pm – Designing with Roses June 22, 2022
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'Souvenir de la Malmaison' by @eugenejmeyer. This 'Souvenir de la Malmaison' by @eugenejmeyer. This rose was created in 1943 and named after a Chateau de Malmaison. 

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Double Delight is one of my top 5 favs! Smells goo Double Delight is one of my top 5 favs! Smells good and looks cool 😎. Not a thrip magnet 🧲 either. 

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Please note next meeting is the second Sunday bc o Please note next meeting is the second Sunday bc of 4th of July!

So excited our speaker, Susan Lyell Young, will discuss the development and hybridization of roses and her efforts to collect them from cemeteries and old homes in Louisiana and California.

Susan is a native Nashvillian. She lives in the Belmont area in the home her grandfather built in 1928. She has been gardening all of her life and growing roses for the last 10 years. She does not use chemical pesticides or fertilizers and believes that Mother Nature finds the perfect balance when left alone to do her thing.

Susan is on a mission to encourage folks to grow roses in their gardens. Not the roses seen at big box stores nor the modern roses that require endless pampering but the antique and heirloom healthy hardy shrubs that have been grown in gardens for hundreds of years. She has traveled all over the country collecting rare varieties so that she can propagate them and get them into the hands of interested gardeners and public rose gardens, preserving the DNA of these fragrant garden workhorses for future generations of admirers and hybridizers.

She estimates she has grown and loved more than 1500 roses over the years but she is particularly fond of the roses bred for Southern gardens — the Teas, China’s and Noisettes. Her home garden has roses and all sorts of their companion plants.
Camille Pissarro by @mgmoppy #rosesofınstagram Camille Pissarro by @mgmoppy 

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Tournament of the roses 🌹 matches my gladiolas! Tournament of the roses 🌹 matches my gladiolas! 

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From @eugenejmeyer 'Angel Kisses'. Purchased at K From @eugenejmeyer 'Angel Kisses'. Purchased at K & M roses. ☺️

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Come join us this Sunday for a "Bees in our garden Come join us this Sunday for a "Bees in our garden" presentation by Shelly Wilkinson!

We will learn how to make our gardens more pollinator-friendly. 

Admission not required for rose club members! Let them know at the gate! 

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Oh Lord that's a lot thrips! For some reason thrip Oh Lord that's a lot thrips! For some reason thrips like blue Solo cups. May take a day or so to lure this many. 

I finally realized I need to coat the outside of the cup with oil (not the inside) and that immobilizes them. 

Thrips are wreaking havoc in my light blooms like Laggerfield here. 😭

It's good to use spinosad and cutting the blooms off during treatment helps (take away their food source).

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Celestial Night (floribunda) at Ron's open garden Celestial Night (floribunda) at Ron's open garden from last weekend! Always open to the public. If you want any rose growing advice Ron and many other members are happy to help! Join our rose club! Your roses will thank you 😘🌹

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Ron's open garden! 🌹Saturday and Sunday! The ph Ron's open garden! 🌹Saturday and Sunday!
The photos can't do it justice. So cool to see rose member's gardens in May and September. It's open to the public! 

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    NRS Monthly meeting - Susan Lyell Young, Owner of Restoration Rose Farm

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    • 2020 Tenarky District ‘Roses in Review’ Report
    • Roses in the Cheekwood Rose Study Garden
    • Hybrid Teas & Grandifloras
    • Climbing Roses
    • Floribundas & Polyanthas
    • Miniatures and Minifloras
    • Old Garden Roses (OGR)
    • Rugosa Rose
    • Shrub Roses
  • Local Gardens
    • NRS Rose Study Garden at Cheekwood
    • Belmont Rose Garden
    • Adelicia Acklen Rose Garden at Belmont University
    • Lynn Anderson Rose Garden
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