The Rosette

SOUTHWEST LOUISIANNA ROSE SOCIETY

AFFIATED WITH THE AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY

Calendar of Events

Thursday, October 13 Monthly meeting, 6 PM,

Board meets at 5PM

7101 Gulf Hwy (Common St)

Saturday, October 22 Houston Rose Society

Rose Show Rose Show and Trade Show Pasadena Convention Center,

7902 Fairmont Parkway, Pasadena, TX 77507

Saturday, October 29

Gulf District Rose Show LSU Ag Center

1-4 PM for Public Viewing

Saturday, November 5 GTRS Rose Show

Tyrrel Park Beaumont TX

Gulf District Mid Winter Workshop February 10-11, 2017

Clarion Inn and Conference Center in Gonzales. LA

Watch these pages for the details!

LSU AgCenter 7101 Gulf Hwy (Common St)

5PM Board Meeting 6PM Membership Meeting

Refreshments

Calling all rosarians! Let’s get

ready for the show! Board members bring reports to share so we can get last minute details in place. All members invited to join in the fun whether exhibitor or not! This is a great time to meet fellow rosarians and trade good growing stories!

Grandma’s Weed Killer Ingredients: Instructions: 1 gallon 5% vinegar Add all ingredients 2 cups Epsom salts to sprayer. Mix well. 1/4 cup Dawn original Ready to use immediately!

Bits & Pieces Arrangement workshop notes………...On Saturday, October 1, Sherry Broussard, GTRS, and BJ Abshire, Acadiana RS, gave an arrangement workshop that has now become an annual affair! A lot of individual instruc-tions and discussion, hands on arrangement making, and learning new understandings about how to approach making the different classes of arrangement so we (10 attendees from CenLa, Acadiana, and SWLA RS) can all enter the next show.

….Which leads to …..

Show notes………...Friday, October 28 is setup day for the Gulf Dis-trict Rose Show. Everybody ready! We’ll plan on starting about mid-morning, gathering supplies from Currie’s will be about 8 AM, come to help, even if only for an hour. Jobs that need YOUR effort: Filling vases with water, setting up trophy table, arrangement, photography, and horti-culture tables, setting up Judges room/Lunch room, setting up prep area and helping students setup their art display. We’re able to use the AgCenter tables and chairs, and we’ll use the SWLA RS tables to fill in where needed. Call Julie 499.8534, or email: jacengert@suddenlink.net to volunteer, re-quest a show schedule or for more info! See you then!

Gulf District Rose Guests………..Allen Owings, Gulf District Director will join us for the show! We’ll also have the pleasure of deciding on the “Gulf District Rose of the Year”. Laura Seabaugh has been invited, as has Jim and Daisy Mills. And, we’ll welcome the Sam Houston High School Art Students again this year!

GTRS Show……………Saturday, November 5 will be the Annual Fall GTRS Show, Beaumont Botanical Gardens at Tyrrel Park in Beaumont TX. Plan on joining our friends for their show. Golden Triangle has a long history with SWLA RS, so lets show our support for them, too! The gar-dens are lovely, as is the site for the show, so bring a rose to enter, or an arrangement or just go to enjoy the roses in the show!

Here’s another home remedy! Organic Fire Ant Killer

Ingredients: Instructions: 2 oz Orange Oil Add 2 1/2 cups water to fill your blender half way. 4 oz Molasses Add remaining ingredients. 2 1/2 cups water Blend for 2 minutes. Add to sprayer along with 1 1 gallon water gallon of water. Ready for immediate use.

Both recipes come from the Beauregard Parish Fair.

Rose Garden at the Botanical Gardens!

by Susan Burke

In September I was able to attend the fall 10th Anniversary of the gardens on the grounds of the Bo-

tanical Garden on the Mall in Washington, D.C. The ARS had a booth with information, roses to

give away and members in red vests to answer questions, give out information sheets and give tours

of the rose gardens on the outside of the Botanical Garden Conservatory. Gaye Hammond was there

to direct the event. Many people from around the country had signed up to work the information

booth in anticipation that many people would be attending the event!

The rose garden on the mall is well maintained.

Under the roses are ornamental, variegated pepper

plants that make the garden stunning! The beds are

slightly raised, with a stone edging. I saw no signs

of disease or insects! Every bush had at least a few

blooms!

The entire garden is surrounded by a large fence

with large edging type plants. Since the gates are

locked during the closed hours, the gardens are

well protected from extremes. The Capital building

is just across the street to the right and the National

Mall is across Maryland Avenue. The map shows the location of the roses in the

gardens!

Herbs and other edible plants are planted in the

Terrace and Rain Gardens. There is plenty of seat-

ing on the terrace areas so many people are always

around enjoying the gardens or waiting to meet

someone or groups gathering! The Rose Society

members were walking around giving out infor-

mation and encouraging people to tour the outside

gardens! There were other societies there in the

gardens doing activities for children or some type

of adult activity like mixing your own pepper powders for chili! There were bread baking demon-

strations that were very elaborate! Each activity was located in the outside gardens with plenty of

space for people to watch or participate if they wished to do so!

The Rose Society hopes to have a presence in the gardens during future events!

FYI: excerpted and paraphrased from the American Rose Magazine, First Word by ARS

President Pat Shanley In June, the American Rose Center hosted the National Clean Plant Network Roses (NCPNR) meeting to discuss the importance of clean plant propagation to insure nurseries are selling virus free plants (roses are just one of the seven crops studied for pathology free production). Studies have been ongoing at locations throughout the US to insure healthy plants end up in our gardens. “Roses are an important ornamental specialty crop industry that contribute significantly to the US economy. The annual value of garden roses is $400 million (AmericanHort.org). The fate of the Rose Industry is extremely important to our economy and to us, on a personal lev-el, as well. Thanks to NCPNR the future of the rose and the rose industry is all the brighter”. Ms Shanley credits Dr. David Byrne and NCPNR for the information contained in her message. Please refer to the September-October issue to read the whole article.

October in the Garden The calendar says it’s fall, but the thermometer says it’s still summer! Gosh, these 90+ degree days are just too hot for man, woman and roses! No rain in sight, but aren’t these clear days lovely just to look at while we’re praying for a little rain. In the meantime, a little effort on our part will help our roses stay healthy! WATER, WATER, WATER! The bushes will benefit from a washing off every few days to decrease the chance of spider mites and give the roses a cooling spray. Stay behind the weeds with an addition of a pre-emergent granular herbicide, add mulch, and carefully spray SedgeHammer to fight nut grass, as well as other sedg-es. There’s a generic nut grass herbicide with the same concentration of the active in-gredient, if you prefer. Weeds easily release from a 2-3” thick mulch application. By now, your roses are pruned and leafing out lovely red foliage and lots of little buds, right!? Or, are you struggling with chili thrip? Flower thrips are bad enough, but now chili thrips are added to enemy list! But don’t give up! Choose a product with Imidi-cloprid as the active ingredient (granules or soil drench) and rotate with Conserve (spinosad) and/or Orthene. Spray soil, too. There are several brands available to chose from on the market: Bonide, Bayer, Fertilome all have products to help get rid of this awful pest! Now, on to our other hated enemy, black spot. With these dry days we can find gratitude that black spot has not been so active in our gardens. All the more important to keep a regular spraying schedule: Contact fungicide, if you do have black spot, spray every 3 days for 3 intervals to kill the spores, clean up diseased leaves, and spray the soil too. If you’ve been keeping up a good spray program, keep up the good work! Remember to alternate a Systemic fungicide every other week along with a con-tact fungicide. One can add a liquid fertilizer to this spray program, too. Maxicrop or other seaweed liquid fertilizer keeps the roses happy. Suppress downy mildew with the addition of copper to your regular spray pro-gram. Copper fungicidal applications are available now to combat most of the leaf spot fungi that can plague roses in our humid climate. Continued, next page

October in the Garden, continued,

Cucumber beetles can arrive just in time for the show! But they’re not in-vited! Give them a blast of insecticide specific to beetles, or use the manual method! You know, pinch those little green devils! This sounds like a lot to be concerned about, but we can do it. Don’t be daunt-ed! All the old Rosarians of the past remind us that the roses are worth the extra effort; for our own pleasure and to share with family and friends! The weather will be cooling off, the days will be shorter and we’ll find lots of good reasons to enjoy our gardens. With all the new disease resistant roses on the market, with a new appreciation for the older varieties that have been tested over the years, there’s no reason not to have a lovely rose in your landscape! KnockOut and Drift roses have certainly settled into our landscapes just a nicely as old faithful azaleas have. And, isn’t it nice to have them flowering all year long! Or, even an hybrid tea rose bed! Whatever your choice, enjoy the rose! Don’t forget to join your fellow rose growers at the Gulf District Show! Half the fun of growing roses is the fellowship among the rosarians! Gardeners are the best!

2016 Officers & Directors

Programs: Julie Engert Show Chairs: SWLA Board Secretary: Ann Wehner Treasurer: Ann Hartman Hospitality: Lois Derise & Sue Burke Share & Learn: Ann Wehner Co-Chairs Angela George Judy Conley Publicity :Jackie Baff Bulletin Editor: Julie Engert Members at Large: Lamar Robertson & Robert Suarez

ARS Consulting Rosarians & ARS Master Rosarians (MR)

Feel Free to contact any of the following ARS Consulting Rosarians for assistance: Barbara Alston S 477.4113 Buford Alston S 477.4113 Susan Burke S 477.9872 Julie Engert, MR SW 477.4358 Yvonne Guerrini SUL 625.5190 Rita Hudgins, MR C 439.5958 Ann Wehner C 439.6367

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