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1 February 2010 The Petal
Volume 59, Issue 2
The Petal February 2010
Inside this Issue
Note from the President
Oklahoma Mid Winter Workshop
WRS Garden Booth
Lawn and Garden Soil Testing
Calendar of WRS Events
Tuesday, February 9
7:00 PM
WRS Regular Meeting
Botanica
Sunday, February 14
Valentine’s Day
Monday, February 22nd
The Petal entry deadline
Thursday, February 25
7:00 PM
Executive Board Meeting
Wednesday—Sunday,
March 3—7
Wichita Garden Show
Century II
ANY MEMBER CAN ATTEND
WRS BOARD MEETINGS!
Check the latest edition of The Petal for time and
location.
Wichita
A Monthly Publication by the Wichita Rose Society
Affiliated with the American Rose Society
Rose
Society
Cindi McMurray
Cindi grew up in Leavenworth, Kansas. After graduating from Kansas University, she came to Wichita to attend graduate school at Wichita State University. By age 22, Cindi had a master's de-gree and a job as coordinator of Gifted and Talented Education at Southeast High School and taught there for seven years.
On a whim, Cindi bought the Beaumont Hotel and Restaurant and spent the summer renovating the hotel. Her parents purchased the hotel and restaurant from her after her father retired from Gen-eral Motors. Cindi went back into teaching and taught another twelve years, this time teaching Government, Psychology, Eco-nomics and History. Cindi said teaching is a great career in that you have summers to pursue education, travel, hobbies and gardening. Cindi said, "I've taken classes in Boston, Anchorage, San Antonio, Seattle and colleges in Kansas."
Husband Richard and Cindi own Dent Doctor, a franchise for hail damage to cars and travel all over the country. When Richard is on a business trip, Cindi visits
nurseries and Botanical gardens when she can travel with him. Cindy has three daughters: The youngest is at K-State; the mid-dle daughter is a gratuate stu-dent at Marshall University in West Virginia; the oldest daugh-ter graduated from WSU with a business degree and a second degree in nursing. She is cur-rently working in Las Vegas and in two weeks will be going to Haiti on a hospital ship.
In 2006, Richard and Cindi bought a house on ten acres with the hope of remodeling it and making the grounds into a display garden. In 2008, the three daughters graduated and flew the nest all at once! They moved into this house and Richard bought a backhoe, tractor and tiller and they went to work amending the rich soil with com-post, took out dead trees, and planted thousands of plants, shrubs and trees. Last year, they built a sunroom for the tropicals. Cindi said it will take years to fin-ish this project.
Cindi has had a variety of careers and her latest is to be a certified court reporter with the long term goal of working as a tv captioner. (Ask her to explain that one!) As
Meet Our New Officers by Norma Kemp
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Refreshment Table
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9TH
The next meeting will feature a game—”Name that Rose”.
Look at new rose introductions
Review of garden websites
Meeting Brief From the President’s Desk
Joel Weihe
FEBRUARY
Drinks—Lisel Weihe, Diana Jones
Food—Suja Mathew, Cindy Vadakin,
Bob Burrill
Decoration—Cindi McMurray
REFRESHMENT COMMITTEE
Mary Lou Klenda —721.8587
Dues R
Due $12.50 per person or
$15.00 for a couple.
Please make checks payable to
Wichita Rose Society
Send to: Kay Case
P.O. Box 3553 Wichita, KS 67201
If dues haven’t been paid this month—you will stop receiving
the newsletter starting in March.
I t seems every year we have at least one cold
snap here in Wichita. By that I mean at least a
week or so of really cold weather with tempera-
tures dropping below zero and wind chills well into
the negative numbers.
I look forward to these days. Not because I like
frozen birdbaths or shoveling snow. I like it be-
cause there is generally only one and from here
it’s downhill cruising into Spring.
This is the time of year we start shopping for
roses and planning our Spring garden. Searching
through catalogs of flowers and designing land-
scapes for the yard. Placing orders for the roses
we have chosen gives us the joy of the wait, an-
ticipating the day they will arrive by postal carrier
at our front door. That day means Spring, and
with it, warm weather has arrived.
These activities keep us warm throughout the rest
of the Winter and give glimpses of the summer
days to come.
So don’t despair. Look to the near future and al-
ways remember, as Hal Borland says; “No winter
lasts forever; no spring skips its turn”.
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Wichita Garden Show March 3-7, 2010
WRS Wichita Garden Show booth 2009
Once again this year, the Wichita Rose Society will be setting up a wonderful booth in the Wichita Garden Show. The
theme of the Show this year is “Gardens of the World”. The theme that we have selected for our booth is an Old Eng-
lish Formal Garden. The booth will contain a section of David Austin Roses, Hybrid Tea Roses, Shrub Roses and low
maintenance double red and pink Knockouts. We are planning a larger booth this year – it will be 20’ x 25’. The booth
will be highlighted by approximately 60 blooming roses (if the weather cooperates) and complimented by boxwoods to
make it look more formal. It will hopefully also include a corner blue LED water-
fall, an arbor entry way, a sitting bench and a statue.
If this all comes together, this could be a very impressive booth for the Wichita
Rose Society with great exposure. But we can not create this booth without a lot
of energetic workers to setup on Sunday Feb 28th, work the booth from March 3-
7th , and help tear down March 7-8th. To get a free pass into the show, the Show
requires a member to work a 4 hour shift during open hours. Actually setting up
is a lot of fun – come join us. We will be in the same area as last year. We will
also be selling almost all the roses at the show like we did last year.
Please come to our regular monthly meeting on February 9th at to sign up for the work schedule to get a free pass. We
need a lot of help and it will be a lot of fun working together.
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Meet Our New Officers
Herb Day - Sedgwick County Extension Office
May 1, 2010
Wichita Rose Society will again have a booth
and will be selling Earth Kind Roses !
Continued from page 1
Articles for the March issue of The Petal must be submitted by February 22nd to be published.
Send to: Sally Duncan
P.O. Box 3553
Wichita, Kansas 67201
Or email [email protected]
a tv captioner, she can work out of her home. Also, this spring she is taking classes to learn stained glass.
In May, Cindi will open her yard for people to see the iris and peonies and again in the summer for daylilies, perennials and, hopefully, roses.
As your program chairman, Cindi would like to hear your suggestions for this year's programs. You can bet she'll be on the ball, so contact her soon!
Lawn and Garden Soil Testing
1. Use a soil probe, spade or shovel to sample the soil pro-file to a depth of 3-6 inches. It is important to obtain a representative sample of the soil in the root zone rather than from the surface soil. 3” profile for established lawns. 6” profile for vegetable and flower gardens (figure 1).
2. A test requires a mixture of 5 samples or more around your garden area (figure 2), then combine these in a clean bucket or pail. This provides a representative sam-ple of the entire garden area.
Figure 1
Figure 3
Figure 2 (X) = soil samples
3. From the bucket or pail, select about a pint of soil. Label it with your name, address, and information on the crops to be grown. If you bring more than one sample, be sure to label each plainly (figure 3).
4. You local Extension horticultural agent will send it to the Kansas State University soil testing laboratory. Results and recommendations are mailed out approximately three weeks after receiving the sample.
TEST AREA
(X)
(X) (X)
(X) (X)
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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
Sally Duncan, Editor
P.O. Box 3553
Wichita, Kansas 67201
Wichita Rose
Society
WRS WINTER WEATHER POLICY
If the Wichita School District (USD259) cancels classes on the date of a
scheduled WRS event—WRS will also cancel or postpone their event.