Vol 1/Issue 7, November 2003

To Contact: WCFRS

C/O Patti Hartzell

217 Salt Brick Court

Wilmington, NC 28411-7855

E-mail: WCFRSNC@aol.com

 

Welcome! to the Wilmington Cape Fear Rose Society (WCFRS) newsletter, The Costal Rose with articles about growing and enjoying roses in the coastal North Carolina area.

 

Suggestion and questions are welcomed.  We encourage you to submit them to us using the e-mail or postal address listed above.

 

Check out our web page at: http://carolinadistrict.org/WCFRS/index.htm

 

President’s Message

Hi there Rose Buds!

 

Our next meeting, November 15th 10:00 – 12:00, we will have some wonderful art by on display, available for purchase.  The prints are signed and numbered Giclee’s.  This sought after art is by a well-known local artist, Bob LeRoy, who frequently paints familiar local settings in Wilmington, North Carolina including the rose gardens in our own arboretum.  Bob, who is a member of our Rose Society here in Wilmington, is generously donating 20% of the sales to our own Wilmington Cape Fear Rose Society.  Not only will you have the opportunity to purchase this art on site, orders may also be placed at the meeting.  This would make a wonderful Christmas gift, or beautiful hanging on your wall in your home!

 

Fall is here and we all are winding down with the gardens.  I am not going to elaborate on garden care in this in the newsletter because Bill Hartzell, our Vice President and Terry Ellis, former President of the Raleigh Rose Society, will be speaking on November 15th on how to prepare your rose gardens for the winter and what to do and not to do.  Terry will have a lot of handouts to share so be sure to attend to receive these.  They will be eager to answer any questions you have pertaining to your rose gardens, so bring that burning question you have wanted to ask all year!  Bring some of your roses that you have growing in your garden for all our members to see.  I think it would be exciting to see what others have since the weather is cooler now and roses tend to be more colorful and larger at this time.

 

Our December “Pot Luck Holiday Brunch” meeting will be held on Saturday, December 13th, from 10:00 –12:00.  This is going to be fun!  We will be having a brunch meeting with drawings and a gift exchange.  If you would like to participate in the gift exchange, please bring a $10.00 wrapped gift that is appropriate for male or female.  Be creative!  Brunch will consist of your favorite dish to share that we hope you will bring to contribute to the brunch!  Bring something yummy and appropriate for brunch!  Beverages will be provided!

 

We need people to join in and help with publicity.  Letting the public know about our meetings is important.  This will include getting fliers out to local sites for the public to see as well as sending mail, faxes and email to local TV, Radio and Newspapers with information to be announced or published.  You won’t need to do it all, just pitch in and help!  See me if you can help with this important job.

 

There is a Carolina District meeting at the Holiday Inn in Salisbury, NC on January 30 and 31 and February 1, 2004.  I have been invited to speak on “How to start and increase membership in a Rose Society”.  This meeting is full of seminars and informational material that would be helpful for you rose growers. You would learn so much at this meeting.  I encourage you to come and join in on the fun.

 

With Christmas coming up, this is the perfect time to purchase a Wilmington Cape Fear Society Membership for your rose buddy's and family as a Christmas gift.  These can be purchased through Jack Hudson at the next meeting.  Family Membership for the year 2004 is $15.00.  Dues will be due the first of the year.  See Jack with your membership dues also.

 

Last but not least…would you like some starts of perennials?  Bill and I are overcrowded with these and would love to share what we have with you and your friends.  If you would like to add to your gardens, please see or call Bill.  Just bring your empty trunk, a shovel and something to put them in (plastic bags work).  Please call before you come because we need to be there to let you know what is available.

 

We want to make this a great Rose Society here in Wilmington so please feel free to contact me at 910.686.1871, with any suggestions that you might have.  I am open to try any ideas that will make this an awesome society.

 

See you all at the November meeting!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Patti

Our Wilmington Arboretum by artist Bob LeRoy

 

 

PS:  Rose bushes are the ultimate gift for anniversaries, “Get Well” and birthdays or a simple "I Love You".  We are now offering annual WCFRS membership gift certificates for purchase.  Combine this with a rose bush for that special rose lover in your life.  Contact me if you are interested in purchasing a gift certificate.

 

We now have an official checking account, so all checks from this point forward should be made out to the “Wilmington Cape Fear Rose Society”.

 

American Rose Magazine

Anyone interested in joining the American Rose Society (includes the American Rose magazine subscription) should mail or hand our treasurer, Kim Landis, their subscription request along with a check made out to "Wilmington Cape Fear Rose Society" so that Wilmington Cape Fear Rose society will receive $5.00.  If the subscription is sent directly to ARS, we will not receive the donation from American Rose Society.

Mail to:

Treasurer: Kim Landis

108 Stonehead Court

Wilmington, NC 28411-7855

Phone: 910.686.3025

 

 

Special Notice:

Our president, Patti Hartzell, has been asked to speak at the Carolina District Winter Meeting in Salisbury, NC.  This meeting runs from Jan 30 through Feb 1, 2004.  Patti will be giving a presentation on Building and Keeping Members.

 

Additional information:  The Rowan Rose Society is hosting the Carolina District Winter Meeting at the Holiday Inn in Salisbury, NC on January 30 and 31 and February 1, 2004.  The Program Committee is lining up some interesting classes including: Sandy Lundberg doing a New Rose slide presentation; Sheree Wright on Kicking the HT Habit; Fred Bettin on Companion Plantin; Susan Waites on Arrangements; a Member Garden Slide Presentation; and Howard Jones on growing roses in containers before putting them in the garden.

 

On Saturday evening, there will be a banquet, entertainment and an auction.

 

If you are interested in attending, contact Patti for a copy of the registration form.

 

Arboretum Volunteers Requested

Our Rose Garden at the arboretum is in need of volunteers.  This will involve pruning, weeding and gentle rose love & care twice a month.  I am requesting that at least 4 couples or 8 or more people volunteer to commit themselves to help take care of the gardens from this point on because their curator and our valued society member, Barbara Hardison, has moved out of the Wilmington area.  Please notify me as soon as possible so that our rose gardens at the arboretum will not be neglected.  You will be requested to help in the rose garden twice a month.  This will be a great way to learn about roses and have hands on experience!  Please consider this because this is a very urgent need. 

 

Contact me as soon as possible at 910.686.1871. 

--Patti

 

Out, Out Dread Spot!

My Thoughts On Organic Rose Growing

 

By Lisa Dunlop

 

Do you dread spraying your roses and then suffer from an attack of the "guilts" if you let it slide?  Has the thought crossed your mind to ditch roses altogether because you're sick of spraying?  Put away the shovel and take heart, you are not alone.  In fact, interest in organic rose growing is on the rise as rose lovers become weary of their favorite flower's chemical dependence.

 

What classifies as organic rose growing?  Not using any chemical fungicides, pesticides, or fertilizers.  But before you start down the organic road, you need to examine why you grow roses in the first place.  If you love the thrill of victory at the awards table, are mad about hybrid teas, or are a rose perfectionist, I don't need a tarot deck to tell me that spraying is in your future.  But if you are not 100% in any of the above categories, then my journey in organic rose growing might be just the "ah ha" moment you need to keep you from giving up on roses.

 

I have been growing roses since 1986.  My first rose garden consisted of rows of hybrid teas, the rest of the yard just grass. Following good rose care practice I sprayed weekly, and blasted any bug in sight with various pesticides.  I remember wearing long sleeves, long pants, a hat, gloves, and a bandana around my mouth, all in the heat of summer.  I recall the sensation when the wind would abruptly change and the fine particles of spray would settle on my clothes and face.  Afterwards I would hit the shower and scrub my skin hard, and many times I would have a headache after spraying.

 

I hated spraying, and because I hated it so much, as the season wore on I would slack off a bit.  As soon as I did, the evil black spot would creep back into the rose garden.  I would then get so frustrated that I would give up (around late July) and by the end of the season the poor hybrid teas would be sorry sticks.  Years went by and slowly my garden began to change.  I fell in love with old garden and David Austin roses.  I was soon buying more of these varieties than hybrid teas.  I began expanding the garden, tearing out grass and adding more perennials in a cottage garden style. I began experimenting with wildflowers and native Florida plants.

 

Then the moment of truth arrived when I found out I was pregnant in 1992, no more spraying. "Oh well," I thought, "glad to be off the hook … what's the worst thing that can happen, the roses will die and that will be that."  But as the season wore on the roses did not die, some looked like hell, but others did just fine, and most surprising of all some were unfazed – blooming their heads off with very little black spot to be seen!  But the best part was how much more I enjoyed my roses, spots and all.  After all, the main reason I garden is for my own pleasure, not perfection

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Now my roses are integrated with my other garden plants, which wander and reseed where they will.  They consist mainly of shrub and old garden varieties. Today, Elizabeth Taylor is the only hybrid tea that grows in my garden.

 

After ten years of not spraying pesticides in my garden you would think my plants would be an all you can eat buffet for every bug in town. But that's not the case. Because I have a healthy balance of good bugs that eat the bad ones I haven't had the outbreaks of whitefly and aphids like I used to. Having a variety of different garden plants rather than just one type provides a place for the good bugs to live, not to mention lizards, toads, and other friends of the garden. I still have problems with thrips and those black beetles that burrow into the bloom. With thrips I just grin and bear it, and the beetles I squish between my gloved fingers.

 

Keep in mind that "organic" does not translate to low maintenance, and quality basic rose care still applies.  The roses still need to be watered, fertilized, deadheaded, and the mulch renewed.  To cut down on disease, select disease resistant varieties and plant your roses in full sun where possible (I have to work around large trees).  Space your bushes so they are not crowded (at least 4 feet between them) for good air circulation.  I water using soaker hoses, but sometimes supplement with overhead watering from a sprinkler.  I overhead water only in the morning so the leaves have the rest of the day to dry, which cuts down on the spread of black spot.  As for fertilizers, I admit to using a granular rose fertilizer like Gro-Mor some seasons, but here is my tried and true "organic mix" given to me by our Society's current President "Big" Ron Kast many years ago. At the time I was a rose newbie and carefully recorded his advice in my first garden journal. 4 quarts peat moss, 1½ quarts Milorganite, 2 quarts dehydrated cow manure, 1 cup bone meal and 2 cups alfalfa pellets. I apply this mixture for fall and spring organics and to amend my planting hole when I squeeze in yet another new bush.

 

Over the years I've used several earth friendly products that I liked and had good results with in my garden.  In the beginning, after putting the pesticides away, I used a product called Garlic Barrier, which was very helpful against chewing and sucking insects.  When you first spray it on your roses it will smell like a bad day at the Olive Garden, but the smell goes away in about an hour. Another product I liked in the beginning (I haven't used it in years was a product called Wilt Pruf. I read about it in the American Rose Society's magazine.

 

Wilt Pruf is an anti-transpirant that folks up north spray on their evergreens to keep them from drying out in the winter.  On the roses it would cover the leaves with a waxy coating that would slow down the spread of black spot.  It's a natural product derived from pine oil.  You would spray your bushes only twice a season.

 

I would like to close with a list of roses that I have grown organically (some for many years) that are free blooming (even with a little black spot):

 

Bermuda Mystery Roses

St. David

Vincent Godsif

Smith's Parish

Old Garden Roses

Maggie

Maman Cochet

Pink Pet

Monsieur Tillier

Mrs. B. R. Cant

Louis Philippe

English Roses

The Swan

Heritage

Graham Thomas

Abraham Darby

Othello

Miniatures

Demitasse – English style miniature-

Sweet Nothings – English style miniature

 

(Article taken from the September 2003 Gwinnett RS newsletter “The Rose Vine”)

 

Editor’s note:  I have also generally followed Ms. Dunlop’s organic approach and have found it to be successful for a number of roses.  Some that do particularly well and deserve more notice due to their resistance to black spot include:

 

Bourbons

Souvenir de la Malmaison

 

Noisettes

Reve d’Ohr

 

Tea

Marie Van Houette

 

English

Wise Portia

Lilian Austin

 

And of course, the Gallica as well as many others of the Old Garden Rose classes do not require spraying and are resistant to black spot.

 

November-December Rose Care

From Charleston Lowcountry Rose Society web page

We give thanks for our rewarding hobby and the joy it has given us.

 

National Rose Emblem

 

 

 

We always knew how special roses are, and here is the proof!  Our new National Rose Emblem!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Historical Tidbits

By Amy G. Padgett

 

Over the years, I have found an extraordinary number of trivial tidbits about roses that were absolutely fascinating.  I thought it might be fun to share a few so you can wow your friends as you sit in front of your fires while the evenings grow longer and cooler.

 

ANCIENT TIMES

We are not the first to write volumes about the rose.  This flower has been described, and treatises written about how to grow roses by many ancient writers, including:

·     The Greek, Theophrastus

·     The Romans, Varro, Columella, Palladius, and Pliny.

·     The entire fourth chapter of Pliny's 20th book on Natural History is devoted to the rose.

Roses were used among the Greeks, Romans, Egyptians and others in their religious, public, and even their private lives.  The Romans apparently preferred to propagate roses by cuttings, since this yielded blooming plants much more quickly than raising them by seed.

Many of the Roman and Greek writers refer to the roses of Paestum, which according to Virgil and Pliny, bloomed semi-annually.  Some historians assert that this rose has died out, although others say it may be or may be related to the Autumn Damask rose. 

The number of rose varieties may have been limited in ancient times to a few spring/summer blooming varieties, but they had a lot of "tricks" to get them to bloom in off seasons.  Pliny wrote that in Carthage, Spain, the roses could be forced to bloom in the winter, and then the roses of Campania bloomed next, followed by those of Malta and lastly Paestum, which flowered in the spring and again in the fall.  The species, whatever it may have been, that bloomed in Paestum may be the one used by the gardeners in Seneca's time in Rome to force in warm-green-houses or retard blooming by withholding water at certain periods.

Nero was so extravagant that it is recorded that at one fete alone he spend more than four million sesterces, or one hundred thousand dollars (probably more now, due to inflation) in roses alone.  The roses were used to wreath their crowns, for garlands, and to cover their tables, couches and the ground.  They used them to surround the urns containing the ashes of the dead. 

Heliogabalus used so many rose petals at his banquet that some were suffocated on their couches.

Lucius Aurelius Verus had a couch made with four cushions made of very fine net, and filled with rose petals.

Rosalia is a Roman feast celebrating the rose, held each year on May 23.

A rose suspended over a Roman banqueting couch was used to indicate to guests that the conversation was sub rosa and therefore, confidential.  This convention was maintained well into the Middle Ages.

Romans often got their winter's supply of roses from Egypt, but eventually learned how to produce roses in winter through the use of green-houses heated by pipes filled with hot water.  During the reign of Domitian, this process for forcing roses in winter was so successful that they looked down with scorn on anyone who continued to import roses from Egypt.

Roses were cultivated in Greece, Rome and throughout the East for many purposes, including perfume.  One method of preserving the flower was to take a reed, split it down a short distance, stuff it with rose-buds and then bind with papyrus to prevent the scent from escaping.  They felt this method could preserve the perfume for a time, if they wished to preserve it while they traveled.

In order to ship roses, the Egyptians in Alexandria and Memphis sent roses in vases and boxes which were planted with roses.  They were shipped at the point just when the roses are beginning to break from the bud, in order to arrive in Rome at the most beautiful time when they are expanding.  The journey was estimated to take 20 days.  No one is sure what roses were grown by the Egyptians.  The French, when they explored Egypt, found the white rose (an Alba) and the Centifolia.  Speculation exists that the Autumn Damask might also have been grown.

The earliest rose concoctions were Greek in origin.  They steeped rose petals in olive or vegetable oil.  Later they learned that slowly heating rose petals in water could produce rose water, but it doesn't smell very strongly because not all of the oils in the rose can be dissolved in hot water.

In Persia or India, they discovered how to distill rose petals:  boil rose petals in water, collect the steam, cool it and you have 'attar of rose'.  Although this is stronger than rose water, it still doesn't last long.  But this is still a key component in perfume.  It takes an acre of roses to produce one lb of attar.

Greeks often planted garlic near the roots of roses and thought this helped the fragrance.

The island of Rhodes really means the Isle of Roses and the Medals of Rhodes have on the reverse side a rose in bloom and on the front, a sunflower.

In the East, the author Abu-Abdallah-ebu-el-Fazel described four roses:  the Double White with more than 100 petals; the Yellow; the Purple; and the flesh-colored which is the most common of them all.  He also says that the number of species is large, with the Mountain or Wild; the Double which is variegated with red and white shades; and the Chinese.  The Double, he says, is the most beautiful and have 40-50 petals. 

The Moors in Spain loved roses and reportedly multiplied them through suckers, cuttings, budding and grafting, so these methods are indeed old.  One Moorish author indicated the following as a method to for a rose to bloom in autumn: 

Choose one which is used to periodical waterings, then deprive it of water entirely during the heat of the summer, until August, and then give it an abundance of moisture.  This will hasten its growth and cause the expansion of flowers with great profusion, without impairing its ability to bloom the next spring as usual. 

Or, a second method:  In October, burn the old branches to the ground, moisten the soil for 8 days and then stop watering.  Alternate periods of moisture and drought as many as five times and in 60 days, or before the end of autumn, the roots will have thrown out vigorous branches which will be loaded with blooms, without impairing the plant's ability to bloom again in the spring.

Damascus, Cashmere, Barbary and Fayoum in Egypt all cultivated the rose for distilled oil or rose essence.  India was also famous for its rose gardens and the commercial cultivation of the rose.  Of all the countries, though, Persia was preeminent for roses during the 14th through 20th century.

MIDDLE AGES

Roses were widely cultivated in the Middle Ages and often worn by knights at tournaments as the emblem of their devotion to grace and beauty.

By the 8th century, the Emperor Charlemagne (742-814) issued a decree that all cities would plant roses in their public gardens, as they were thought to have medicinal value.

The Crusades introduced new roses into Europe, including new strains of Damask and Gallica roses.  Devout pilgrims to the Holy Lands often brought back roses as well.

When Saladin retook Jerusalem from the Christians in 1187 (3rd Crusade) he ordered 500 camel-loads of rosewater from Damascus to purify the Mosque of Omar.

Then there was the famous War of the Roses and its use of roses as emblems for the houses--something created by Shakespeare, by the way.  A red rose for the Lancaster and a white for the York.  The York house most certainly used either the 'Alba Maxima' or 'Alba Semiplena' for their rose.  The red is more difficult, but could have been the Apothecary's Rose.

In England in 1402, Sir William Clopton granted to Thomas Smyth a piece of ground called Dokmedwe, in Haustede, for the annual payment of a rose to Sir William and his heirs, in lieu of all services.

The demand for roses was so great in England that bushels of them were frequently passed by vassals to their lords in England and France.

Among the New Year gifts to Queen Mary in 1556 was a bottle of rose-water.

In an account of a grant of a great part of Ely House, Holborne, by the Bishop of Ely, to Christopher Hatton, for twenty-one years, the tenant covenants to pay, on midsummer-day, a red rose for the gate-house and garden, and for the ground (fourteen acres) ten loads of hay and ten pounds per annum; the Bishop reserving to himself and successors free access through the gate-house for walking in the gardens and gathering twenty bushels of roses yearly.

RENAISSANCE

By the Renaissance, the Dutch and Flemish painters discovered roses and painted the lovely Centifolia.  If a rich buyer wanted a yellow "Rose of Provence" (Centifolia) they could certainly have one!  (Even if it didn't exist in nature!)

Micholas Culpeper (1616-54) prescribed a dry conserve of rose hips from Rosa canina for weakness, and a conserve of "sugar of rose" to help digestion.  Cuttings of the Gallica Rose 'the Apothocary's Rose' or 'Officinalis' were often tucked away by goodwives and others for medicinal purposes.

John Gerard's Herball in 1597 listed 16 different roses, grown in his Holborn garden.

John Parkinson (apothecary to King James I) published Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris in 1629 and lists 29 roses.

Mary Lawrance's work, A collection of Roses from Nature (the first monograph on roses) in 1795 listed nearly 90 roses.

Pierre-Joseph Redoute published Les Roses between 1817 and 1824, and expanded the list of cultivated roses to nearly 170.  The is probably the most famous and influential work on roses.

By 1848, some 1,500 different roses were listed, described, and offered for sale by William Paul's "The Rose Garden" catalogue.  There were nearly 800 Alba, Centifolia, Moss, Damask, and Gallica Roses.  But, by the time of the 10th edition in 1910, this list of old roses fell to below 90 roses or around 20%, and the bulk of the roses were now as we know them:  Hybrid Teas and other remontent classes.

This is obviously just a glimpse of the history, but at least it shows you what a valuable and wonderful plant the rose truly is.  Can you imagine being able to lease land by just allowing the owner to come and pick roses from the gardens?

 

 

Purchasing Roses

Since we are all still dreaming of next year’s garden, we are repeating the list of rose growers who may be able to offer you varieties you want, but can’t find locally.

 

US Vendors

Amity Heritage Roses - San Jose, CA

Antique Rose Emporium - Benham, TX

Arena Rose Company - Paso Robles, CA

Armstrong Garden Centers - Glendora, CA

Ashdown Roses - Landrum, SC

Bay Laurel Nursery - Atascadero, CA

Bracken Garden Center - Redding, CA

Bridges Roses - Lawndale, NC

The Cabbage Rose - Clermont, FL

Carlton Roses - Carlton, OR

Chamblee Roses - Tyler, TX

Countryside Roses - Hattiesburg, MS

Edmunds Roses - Wilsonville, OR

Garden Valley Roses - Petaluma, CA

Fork and Spade  - formerly Grow Spot .com- Modesto. Ca

Heirloom Roses - St. Paul, OR

High Country Roses - Jensen, UT

Jackson & Perkins

J&P Greenhouse Roses

Johnny Becnel -

K&M Nursery - Buckatunna, Ms.39322 

Ph - 601-648-2908

FAX - 601-648-2151

Landscape USA - Salem, OR

Liggett's Rose Nursery - San Jose, CA

Limberlost Nursery - Van Nuys, CA

Linda's Antique Roses -  San Marcos, TX

Mary's Plant Farm - Hamilton, OH

Melrose Plantation - Lancaster, VA

Michael's Premier Roses - Sacramento, CA

The Mini Rose Garden - Cross Hill, SC

Mission Hills Nursery - San Diego, CA

Montgomery Rose Company - Hadley, MA

Muncy's Florida Rose Emporium - Sarasota, FL

Nelson's Florida Roses - Apopka, FL

Nor'East Miniature Roses - Rowley, MA

Northland Rosarium - Spokane, WA

Old Sheep Meadows Nursery - Alfred, ME

Orion Farm - Waverly, MN

Otto & Sons Nursery - Fillmore, CA

Peaceful Habitations Rose Gardens - Boerne, TX

Petaluma Rose Company - Petaluma, CA

Ralph Moore's Sequoia Nursery - Visalia, CA

Regan Nursery - Fremont, CA

Rose Fire, Ltd. - Edon, OH

Rose Hill Garden - Ethel, LA

Rose King Gardens - Loxahatchee/West Palm Beach, Fl    NEW

Rosemania - Nashville, TN

Roseraie at Bayfields - Waldoboro, ME

Roses Unlimited - Laurens, SC

Roses of Yesterday and Today - Watsonville, CA

S&W Greenhouse - White House, TN

Sam Kedem Roses - Hastings, MN

Spring Valley Roses - Spring Valley, WI

Star Roses

Teas Nursery - Houston, TX

Tiny Petals Nursery - Chula Vista, CA

The Uncommon Rose - Corvallis, OR

Vintage Gardens - Sebastopol, CA

Wayside Gardens - Hodges, SC

Weeks Roses - Upland, CA

White Rabbit Roses - Elk, CA

Windswept Gardens - Bangor, ME

Wisconsin Roses - Kenosha, WI

Witherspoon Rose Culture - Durham, NC

 

Canadian Vendors

Aldershot Greenhouses - Burlington, ONT

Anglegrove Tree Seed Company - Harbour Grace, NEWF

Enderlein Nurseries - No. Ontario, ONT

Hortico Nurseries - Waterdown, ONT

Martin & Kraus - Carlisle, ONT

Old Heirloom Roses - Halifax, NS

Old Rose Nursery - Hornby Island, BC

Pickering Nurseries - Pickering, ONT

Russian Roses For The North - Grand Forks, BC

Sylvan Roses - Kelowna, BC

Valderose Gardens - Chatham, ONT

 

European Vendors

Apuldram Roses - West Sussex, ENG

Belle Epoque Rose Nurseries - Aalsmeer, Netherlands

C&K Jones Internet Rose Catalog - Cheshire, ENG

David Austin Roses - Wolverhampton, ENG

De Ruiter's International - Netherlands

Fryer's Roses - Cheshire, ENG

Harkness Roses - Hertfordshire, ENG

Jan Spek Roses BV - Holland

W. Kordes' Sohne - GER

Mattocks Roses - Oxford, ENG

Meilland Roses - France

Notcutts Nurseries and Garden Centers - Suffolk & Surrey, ENG

OmniFlora - Frankfurt, GER

Peter Beales' Roses - Norfolk, ENG

Roses Guillot - Chamagnieu, FR

Tantau's Roses (Rosen Tantau) - Uetersen, GER

Walter Bartoli Roses - Orvieto, Italy

 

Vendors from "Down Under"

Finegand Nursery - Balclutha, NZ

Ross Roses - Willunga, AUS

Tasman Bay Roses - South Island, NZ

Treloar Roses of Australia - Portland, Vict., AUS

 

Rosey Events

 

November 15, 2025

Wilmington Cape Fear Rose Society

Meeting at the Arboretum auditorium, 10:00am – noon.

Speaker:  Bill Hartzell, Vice President of our rose society, and Terry Ellis, past President of the Raleigh Rose Society will discuss Winterizing Your Rose Beds. 

 

Special guest:  Well-known local artist, Bob LeRoy, will bring some of his artwork to share.  It will also be available for purchase.  Bob is generously donating 20% of the sales to the Wilmington Cape Fear Rose Society.

 

December 13, 2025

Wilmington Cape Fear Rose Society

Meeting at the Arboretum auditorium, 10:00am – noon.

“Pot Luck Christmas Brunch” meeting.  See the President’s message for more details.

 

2004 Projected Schedule

Wilmington Cape Fear Rose Society

Meeting Schedule

 

January 31st          10-12 (noon)

February 28th       10-12 (noon)

March 20th          10-12 (noon)

April 24th             9-11 AM

May 22nd              10-12 (noon)

June 26th              10-12(noon)

July 31st                10-12 (noon)

August 28th          10-12 (noon)

September 25th    10-12 (noon)

October 30th        10-12 (noon)

November 20th    10-12 (noon)

December 18th    10-12 (noon)

 

Dates are subject to change due to events such as Rose Garden tours.  All meetings will be in the auditorium at the Arboretum unless specified.

 

Meet Your Officers

At the first meeting of the WCFRS, the following officers were elected:

President: Patti Hartzell

217 Salt Brick Court

Wilmington, NC 28411-7855

Phone: 910.686.1871

 email: NCRoseLady@aol.com

 

1st VP Program Chair: Bill Hartzell

217 Salt Brick Court

Wilmington, NC 28411-7855

Phone: 910.686.1871

email: NCRoseLady@aol.com

 

2nd VP Membership Chair: Jack Hudson

1610 Cottswald Court

Wilmington, NC  28411

Phone:  910.793.0114

email: jmtal@ec.rr.com

 

Secretary: Jennifer Arcuri

109 Cale Court

Wilmington, NC 28411-7855

Phone: 686.1432

Email: jlmjlm@bellsouth.net

 

Treasurer: Kim Landis

108 Stonehead Court

Wilmington, NC 28411-7855

Phone: 910.686.3025

Email: TOWILA59@yahoo.com

 

Historian: Cindy Black

102 Stonehead Court

Wilmington, NC 28411-7855

Phone: 910.686.0545

Email: Cacob0545@aol.com

 

Newsletter Editor: Amy Padgett

622 Baldwin Elkins Road

Clarkton, NC 28433

Phone: 910.645.6417

Email: amy@amypadgett.com

Gardening web site:  www.amypadgett.com

 

Co-editor: Annie Brittin

1735 Fairway Drive

Wilmington, NC 28403

Phone:910.815.2941

Email: Brittin@dellepro.com

 

Hospitality Chair: Bob & Pat Moore

4114 Kittiwake Court

Southport, NC 28461

Phone: 910.253.7519

Email: bobrtm@earthlink.net

 

Parlamentarian: Tom Landis

108 Stonehead Court

Wilmington, NC 28411-7855

Phone: 910.686.3025

Email: TOWILA59@yahoo.com

 

Email Chair: Jack Hudson

1610 Cottswald Court

Wilmington, NC 28411

Phone: 910.793.0114

Email: jmta1@ec.rr.com

 

Publicity Chair: Marla Trobaugh

209 Salt Brick Court

Wilmington, NC 28411-7855

Phone: 910.686.9077

Email: trobaughm@uncw.edu

 

Photography: Nell Crosby

6300 Red Cedar Road

Wilmington, NC 28411

Phone: 910.686.9998

Email: captjoekc@aol.com

 

Special Thanks

We would like to thank the following people and businesses for supporting the Wilmington Cape Fear Rose Society in a variety of ways.

 

Catlin

220 Old Dairy Road

Wilmington, NC 28405

Contact:  Thomas W. Landis

 

Hobby Greenhouse Club for their generous $25.00 donation.

 

Thanks to Our Members

Thanks to all the members of WCFRS who have made this society so successful.  If we have missed any family members or any corrections are needed, please contact Jack Hudson, 910.793.0114 or email jmta1@ec.rr.com.

Wilmington Cape Fear Rose Society Members:

Tom Huckelberry

Tom & Kim Landis

Terry & Marge Preiss

Ted & Annie Brittin

Scott & Judy Szabo

Russel Holt

Roberta Northern

Richard Pipkin

Paul & Carol Rodriguez

Patricia Holt

Nicole Rollins

Neal & Ginny Patrick

Nancy Millard

Ms. Lori Hardee

Ms. Barbara Hardison

Molly Ley

Margaret Whitesell

Louise Ramsdell

Lorraine Carter

Claude & Lori Efird

Linda White & George Phillips

Linda Farmer

Kevin & Teresa Butler

Joseph & Marla Trobaugh

John & Melissa Tallery

Joe Latham

Joe & Nell Crosby

Jim & Ozella Stanley

Jennifer Arcuri

Janice & Joe Clifford

James & Bonita Phelps

Jack & Marilyn Hudson

Howie Strauss

Jim & Barbara Hardy

George & Bunny Froehlich

Gary & Patty Stephens

Frank & Connie Piscetelli

Faye B. Haywood

Ernest & Kay Templeton

Emile & Nancy Carrier

Edward & Diane Larson

Ed & Lenna Easter

Derek & Mercades D. Noakes

Denise Lee

David & Cindy Black

Carol Mathewson

Carlos & Arlene "Rose" Nazario

Bob & Traci Leroy

Bob & Pat Moore

Bill & Patti Hartzell

Annette Johnson

Amy Goebel Padgett

Alex & Maria Cummings

 

 

Members: Please send any updates for your information including home address, phone number and e-mail address to Jack Hudson at jmta1@ec.rr.com, or you may call him at 910-793-0114.  Thank you

 

 

Corrections:

We incorrectly reported the FAX number for Weeks Wholesale Rose Grower, Inc.  The correct FAX number should be:  909-920-0308.

 

Sorry for the inconvenience.

 

 

Disclaimer:  While the information and recommendations in this newsletter are believed to be correct, neither the authors, editors, nor the Wilmington Cape Fear Rose Society (WCFRS) can accept responsibility for errors or omissions that may be made.  The WCFRS makes no warranty, expressed or implied, with respect to the material contained herein.