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1 June 2010 The Petal
Volume 59, Issue 6
The Petal June 2010
Inside this Issue
From the President’s Desk
WRS Summer Garden Tours
Volunteers Needed!
Calendar of WRS Events
Saturday, June 5
8 AM —Rose Garage Sale
6:30 PM —WRS Summer Garden Tours
Tuesday, June 8
7 PM
Regular Meeting
Botanica
Sunday, June 20
Father’s Day
Thursday, June 24
7:00 PM
Executive Board Meeting
Sunday, July 4
Independence Day
Saturday, July 17
WRS Summer Garden Tour Finale Cook Out
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
Kay Case
K ay was born in Wichita. After graduating from South High School in 1962, Kay went to work for Mutual of Omaha Insur-ance. She was married in 1963 and stopped working to stay at home with her two chil-dren. When daughter Taunia and son Donovan were both in school, Kay went to work with State Farm Insurance. She worked from 1970 until retire-ment in 2008.
Kay married Charles Case, a State Farm agent, in 1987. Charles has two sons and together they have eight grandchildren and one great grandson. Taunia and Donovan also work for State Farm Insurance.
Kay and Charles traveled to many countries until Charles' retirement
in 1998. They visited Hawaii sev-eral times, England, Austria, Ven-ice, Rome, Spain, Switzerland, Bermuda, Canada, France, an Alaska cruise, and two Caribbean cruises. They have also traveled extensively in the United States.
Kay enjoys sports such as foot-ball, basketball and golf. She has enjoyed flower gardening for a long time. The Case's southwest-ern style home and garden show a lot of TLC.
Kay joined the Wichita Rose Soci-ety in 1995 and says she has learned a lot about growing roses and especially enjoys the friend-ship and fellowship with WRS members. She became a Con-sulting Rosarian in 2007. Kay retained her position as Treasurer of WRS this year, and her experi-ence will be invaluable during the District Rose Show.
Meet Our New Officers by Norma Kemp
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TUESDAY, JUNE 8
Weed, disease and critter round table discus-sion. Please bring samples of garden/ rose problems you are having to show the group.
Please bring in roses from your garden to use as examples on how to prepare for the show!
Meeting Brief From the President’s Desk
Joel Weihe
Refreshment Table
Greetings all, We finally got the rain we needed in May. The roses are all blooming like mad. The house has been full of flowers and the gardens are beautiful this year. So far we've added seven new roses and the usual vegetables and herbs. Somewhere in The Petal this month I'm sure it talks about the Earth Kind Rose Garage Sale at Sally's place this weekend, June 5th. Be sure to tell all your friends so we can sell the rest of our stock!
The two New Dawns that Lisel and I bought at Herb Day are thriving and already starting the journey up the arbor we put in for them. Some of our members are opening their gardens for us all to see this summer. It would be great if we could all find time and come visit them. I know for a fact they've been working hard, preparing. Hope all is well with you and yours and your roses are all blooming and healthy.
JUNE
DRINKS—Cindy Howey, Mary Lou Klenda
FOOD—Charmaine Nichols, Norma Kemp, Mary Scheulen
DÉCOR—Kendi Alumbaugh
REFRESHMENT COMMITTEE
Mary Lou Klenda —721.8587
Contact the WRS advertizing
chairperson at [email protected] $10
Expiration Date: 00/00/00
Advertise With Us! This could be your ad!
Tel: 555 555 5555 Your Logo
Here! Great size for coupons!
The WRS is now offering advertizing space in The Petal to our local nursery friends. We have 2 sizes available for a minimal donation to our garden club. Your ad will not only reach potential customers, but will help us pro-vide a colorful, educational and informational newsletter to our members and colleagues. For more information or to list an ad, contact [email protected] .
Articles for the July issue of The Petal must be sub-mitted by July 6th to be published.
Send to: Sally Duncan
P.O. Box 3553, Wichita, Kansas 67201
Or email [email protected]
WELCOME OUR NEW MEMBERS
Jill Ohlman
May Nelson
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Summer Garden
Tours
Saturday, June 5
6:30-8 PM
Kevin & Sally Duncan
1510 North Armour
Mary Scheulen
6527 East Murdock
Saturday, July 17
6:30—8:30 PM
Finale Cook Out
Pat & Betsy Latta
1124 North Bitting
Our Consulting Rosarians
will be onsite at the
gardens to answer
your questions!
The Garden of Mary Scheulen
6527 East Murdock, Wichita, KS
Mary recently transitioned from west Wichita sandy soil to a east side heavy clay, and is gradually learn-ing what it takes to make her roses happy there. She has a unique collection of Old Garden Roses, propagated from cuttings of departed WRS member Maxine McFall’s roses. Her ORG assortment features a rare unidentified moss rose, Gloire de Dijon, Dortman, Cardinal de Riche-lieu and Madame Hardy; happily mixed with Hybrid teas, Miniatures and Earth Kind varieties. Her garden features a large Green Ice miniature rose that she relo-cated from her last home. She grows a small herb patch and a few container grown vegetables. She has a total of 30 roses thus far, but hopes to add a few more where her space allows.
The Garden of Kevin and Sally Duncan
1510 North Armour, Wichita, KS
Kevin and Sally’s garden reflects her relaxed eclectic style, though she finds inspiration from English cot-tage gardens. Sally, who has been an avid garden since her teenage years, has drawn Kevin into garden-ing along the way. She is now fostering the next gen-eration of gardener by letting her eldest son have his own flower garden in one of their raised beds.
When they purchased this home less than a year ago, it was evident that the yard had once been a well tended garden, though sadly forgotten by the time they moved in. They dug up and moved a few of their favorite roses and perennials to relocate at their new home. Within the first week of closing on the house, Sally broke ground on her first new rose bed (with the help of some willing volunteers). They love growing roses, herbs and perennials in combination. Prefer-ring low maintenance plants to accommodate their busy lives. Sally tries to balance her love of garden-ing with the need of play space for their two young sons and room to run for their two dogs. This will be the first full growing season they are enjoying in their garden. At the moment, they are growing a little over 40 roses of different varieties, scattered in beds in both front and back.
WRS Summer Garden Tours
WRS Cook-Out Finale
The Garden of Pat and Betsy Latta
1124 North Bitting, Wichita KS
Pat and Betsy’s garden encompasses the entire backyard of their narrow lot close to North Riverside
Park. They have been gardening at this home for 25 years. Betsy has been growing roses for 38 years
and there are approximately 100 rose plants in the garden. The roses are mostly David Austin English
Roses and other old-fashioned looking shrubs and a few climbers.
Their garden is mostly organic, although Betsy does spray for black spot. The garden features many
other plants which are grown to attract butterflies, bees and hummingbirds. Pat especially enjoys pho-
tographing butterflies.
R.S.V.P. Online
If you plan to attend the cookout!
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Volunteers STILL Needed!
A dditional volunteers are needed for the Rose Show this September.
Watch for it and be prepared to be-gin your spraying program. You may begin to see aphids on your roses also. Aphids are small (usually green) crawling in-sects that love to eat on the
new growth on your roses. For articles on black spot or pest control, go to :
The rainy and cloudy weather we’ve been having (again) is conducive to black spot on your roses.
www.wichitarosesociety.org
Platinum
You can Sponsor our Rose Show
Gold
Deadline for donations
July 7, 2010
For more info: Joel Weihe at
821.9437 [email protected] or you
may donate online at
www.wichitarosesociety.org
$300.00
Silver Level
With the Platinum Donation, your company’s
logo design will be featured on our show
With the Gold Donation Level, your company’s
name will be featured on our show schedule.
With the Platinum Donation Level, your com-
pany’s will be featured on our show schedule.
Corporate Levels
$200.00
$100.00
Individual Levels
$100.00 $50.00 $25.00 With a Donation, your family’s name
will be featured on our show schedule.
Some of the openings are: Property Management; This team would be responsible for getting the vases, trophies, etc. transported to the Hotel for the show and packing the items to remove from the Ho-tel after the show. We probably need 2 or 3 volun-teers for this team.
Consulting Rosarians; Are needed to man a table and answer rose questions while the show is open to the public.
Registration; Volunteers needed to help coordinate and tally registration.
If you can assist in any of these areas or other, please contact Suja Mathew 316.729.0740, Pat Horbelt 316.636.4504, or Mary Scheulen 316.524.3165.
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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
● 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!