august 2010 petal
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August Wichita Rose Society newsletter.TRANSCRIPT
1 August 2010 The Petal
Volume 59, Issue 8
The Petal August 2010
Inside this Issue
Roses in Review
Central District Rose Show
Organic Rose Gardening
Calendar of WRS Events
Tuesday, August 10
7 PM
WRS Regular Meeting
Botanica
Tuesday, August 17
Central District Rose Show Registrations Due!
Friday—Sunday, Aug 20-22
ARS National Mini Rose Show & Convention
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Thursday, August 26
7:00 PM
Executive Board Meeting
Friday-Sunday, Sept 17-19
Central District Rose Show & Convention
Wichita, Kansas
ANY MEMBER CAN ATTEND
WRS BOARD MEETINGS!
Contact Joel Weihe for location.
A Monthly Publication by the Wichita Rose Society
Affiliated with the American Rose Society
WRS Shirts!
$25.00*
WRS Activity Shirt
Polo Shirt Options and Size Chart
We are placing an order for embroidered Polo Shirts and printed Activity Shirts. You may pick your favor-
ite color for the Polo Shirt. The Activity Shirts will all come in white 100% organic cotton. The Polo is
designed to be worn for dressy-casual WRS events while the Activity Shirt is ideal for getting dirty in the
Rose Garden. Both are a great way to show your WRS Pride!
*Sizes 2XL and up are $2.00 more per shirt.
You may order online or mail your order and payment to Kay Case: P.O.
Box 3553, Wichita, KS 67201. You can use the attached order form on
page 5. Make checks payable to Wichita Rose Society.
DEADLINE EXTENDED! Orders and payment must be received by Aug. 13, 2010
Toddler Sizes
Youth Sizes
Adult Sizes
$15.00* Now Offering Children’s Sizes!
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TUESDAY, AUGUST 10
PRESENTED BY A GUEST SPEAKER FROM THE ORGANIC GARDENING CLUB
Organic Gardening Methods
Meeting Brief From the President’s Desk
Joel Weihe
Refreshment Table
AUGUST
DRINKS— VOLUNTEER NEEDED
FOOD— VOLUNTEER NEEDED
DÉCOR—VOLUNTEER NEEDED
MARY LOU WILL BE CONTACTING PEOPLE TO HELP!
REFRESHMENT COMMITTEE
Mary Lou Klenda —721.8587
Articles for the September issue of The Petal must be submitted by September 3rd to be published.
Send to: Sally Duncan
P.O. Box 3553, Wichita, Kansas 67201
Or email [email protected] New
Greetings all, It’s hard to believe that August is upon us. Summer is officially halfway through. Here is Kansas we don’t get much rain in August and September which means higher water bills if you are a gardener. We always do! Our house has kept busy this summer with work, real estate and the ongoing housing rehab and neighborhood stabilization projects. Our personal roses are doing grrreeeaaat this year. Lisel takes good care of them all by keeping them on a strict disease prevention and fertilization regimes. All the good and useful advice and care tips we learned from being members of the WRS are being put to good use. Of course the big event coming up in September keeping us all busy is the Central District Rose Show and Convention the weekend of September 17-19. I get emails almost daily from all our committee heads and the two gals chairing the show; Pat Horbelt and Mary Scheulen. Everyone is working really hard to ensure our show is successful. It’s important we put on an impressive show to let everyone know just how great the Wichita Rose Society really is. There will be a chance for anyone and everyone to chip in on that weekend with plenty of work to go around. Again, I hope you all are planning to register to enter something in the upcoming district show. We cer-tainly are. It will be our first and we plan on entering to win no matter the competition! Many of our ex-perienced members have been giving out tips and advice for us “newbies”. I for one am grateful and plan to use it to my advantage. If you should have any questions, just track down one of the Consulting Rosarians and ask! Hope you all are having a great summer and I’ll see you at the August meeting (except those who are taking vacations...or going on cruises).
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2010 Roses In Review
T his Roses in Review (RIR) marks the 85th time that the members of the American Rose Society have evalu-ated new rose introductions. The ultimate value of this procedure is realized only when we have a broad base of participation. We need your contribution, whether you grow only one plant of one variety on the list or many of them. We need input from "garden" rosarians as well as
exhibitors, and from new rosarians as well as sea-soned veterans. We also welcome reports from those who are not yet ARS members, so please pass along this website address to your rose-
growing friends. The complete results of this survey will be included in the January/February, 2011, issue of American Rose, and will help determine the ratings in the ARS Handbook for Selecting Roses. For these results to be meaningful, we need everyone to participate So, please - take a few minutes of your time to evaluate your
new roses. Only evaluate roses you grow from the cultivar list.
Our experiment over the last several years of including a list of older roses has been very successful, although the total reports on them did fall off a little recently. As a result, we are including another group of 30 older roses at the end of this year's list under "Special Group". If you grow them, please complete a rating for them. These specific roses will only appear this year, so don't put it off. Please help these fine, older roses feel appreciated.
Reviews must be submitted by September 26, 2010. Your reports will be automatically sent to your District coordinator when you click the SAVE button.
http://www.stsrv.com/rir/rirsplsh.htm
Article taken from American Rose Society website,
www.ars.org
Mary Scheulen was awarded the 2010 Bronze
Medal for Outstanding Service To a Local Soci-
ety. Thanks to Mary for her willingness to vol-
unteer when needed to
benefit and support the
WRS!
Coming soon!
A new page is being devel-
oped for our website featur-
ing past and present honorees of such ARS
awards. We will keep you posted on the
progress!
ARS Bronze Medal Award
The Petal has a new email address! Please send your
articles or announcements to:
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Organic Rose Gardening
O rganic rose gardening is about balance, and non chemical solutions to maintaining a healthy garden. Many chemical fertilizers which are commonly used can harm the soil, as well as being bad for any children or pets playing in the garden. Also, while fungicides kill the fungi that cause many common plant diseases, they can also kill the helpful fungi that work with the root sys-tems of plants to help them obtain nutrients. This is why organic rose gardening is becoming more popular, as people seek to bring gardening into balance with the earth and the soil.
There are message boards devoted to organic garden-ing, and many of the message boards have organic gar-dening tips for beginners such as:
Article taken from
www.roseflowergarden.com/Organic_Rose_Gardening.html
1. The most important thing to do is to choose a disease resistant, virus free plant.
2. When planting, add organic materials and some natu-ral minerals, depending on the soil of the area you live in. The best fertilizer is made up of manure and compost.
3. Rose care is attention consuming. You have to pay attention to the needs of your roses in a natural way.
4. Chemical fertilizers, fungicides, and weed killers actu-ally attract organisms to attack your roses, while damag-ing the natural soil biosystem. Chemical fertilizers can be
A t the last meeting, Pat Horbelt co-chair of the Central District Rose Show, handed out several articles on "Getting Ready for the Show". She wants to emphasize to those entering the show to read and review this infor-mation. In September, she will go over grooming your roses for the show and how to CORRECTLY fill out the entry tag. Any error in doing this step could get your roses elimi-nated from the competition! If you have yet to register for the show, you must do so by August 17 or the registration fee of $45.00 will in-crease to $50.00! Included in The Petal is the registra-tion form, you can fill it out and mail it to Registrar Suja Mathew. Members who are planning to show their roses should start pruning their roses now; only prune a few canes at once, NOT all at one time. Do this over the next week or two. AND most importantly—keep deadheading and wa-tering. We want to have a house full of beautiful roses for our judges and guests to enjoy at the show! However, you don’t have to be a competitor to attend the Grand Opening of the Rose Show from 2-4 PM on Satur-day, September 18. Or Awards Banquet later that day at
6 PM. We hope most of WRS members will come for this event. There will be a delicious meal and wonderful en-tertainment provided by the Emerald City Sweet Adeline Chorus. The cost for a banquet ticket is $35.00 per per-son by August 17th. We MUST have all reservations by that date.
Reminder!
● Exhibitors registration fee is $45.00 by August 17
● Exhibitors registration fee is $50.00 AFTER August 17
● Awards Banquet Tickets are $35.00 per person, reservation must be made by August 17
● Both payments can be made online!
• September 17-19 •
2010 Central District Rose Show
and Convention
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replaced by using compost and manure.
Organic rose gardening can be accomplished with pa-tience and creativity. While organic supporters may dis-agree with those who use chemicals, and those who use chemical fertilizers may never go organic, in the end, each gardener has to choose the best fertilizer, weed killer, and method for themselves. For those who choose to go the organic route, there are online and real life stores that sell organic plant foods, and other organic gardening supplies. It can be a very earth friendly way to garden.
Organic gardening, like all gardening, must be done year round. Fall gardening includes the planting of bulbs and
the cutting of cuttings, if one is trying to propagate their roses. Compost and manure must be spread as mulch in N o v e m b e r . W h e n t h e weather gets cold, it’s time for winter gar-
dening when many gardeners cover their plants with plas-tic to help them stay warm. In the spring, organic garden-ers must be vigilant against any sign of disease or imbal-ance, as without fungicides, it can be very difficult to get rid of a large disease outbreak. Compost must be turned
over and applied to the ground, as well as manure and any other supplements. Spring gardening is also the time for any new plantings, so everyone is busy.
Taking care of roses is always a lot of work, doing it or-ganically can be extra work. There is no real difference to the work an organic gardener has to do to the work a gar-dener who is using chemical fertilizer does, although sometimes there is more of it.
WRS Shirts!
Please send order form along with payment to:
Kay Case P.O. Box 3553 Wichita, Kansas 67201 Make checks payable to Wichita Rose Society.
Or you can order online at:
www.wichitarosesociety.org
WRS Shirt Order Form
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Address
Phone
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August 1st, 2010
City ST ZIP
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Prices:
Polo Shirts Size: XS-XL $25.00 2XL-5XL $27.00 Adults Activity Shirts Size: XS-XL $15.00 2XL-3 XL$17.00 Youth Activity Shirts Size: 2T-XL $15.00
All members of the Wichita Rose Society are invited to a
Rose Garden Party ! In the Rose Gardens of the
Sedgwick County Extension Arboretum
7001 W. 21st Street North
Tuesday September 28, 2010
6:00 pm-7:30 pm Hosted by the Extension Master Gardeners
Refreshments will be served
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Joel Weihe President 316-821-9437
Cindi McMurray 1st Vice President 316-371-6372
Mary Lou Klenda 2nd Vice President 316-721-8587
Cindy Howey Secretary 316-445-2150
Kay Case Treasurer 316.685.1948
Wichita Rose Society
2010 Officers
Consulting
Rosarians
Bob Burrill 316.721.4688
Kay Case 316.685.1948
Pat Horbelt 316.636.4504
Norma Kemp 316.722.0906
Betsy Latta 316.267.8602
Carol Manke 316.729.6363
Suja Mathew 316.729.0740
Mary Scheulen 316.524.3165
Len Suchy 316.722.4403
Cindy Vadakin 316.258.1684
● Bring your potted roses or perennials you need to relocate to a new home for the Plant Exchange in the spring and summer months.
● Be sure to only donate HEALTHY disease free plants, please!
Sally Duncan, Editor
P.O. Box 3553
Wichita, Kansas 67201