Posts by Ray Martin

We are delighted to announce that World renowned rosarian will be delivering our second Winter Series Zoom Talk  at 8pm on Thursday 26th January.

All Rose Society paid up members will be circulated the sign in details by email.

Joining the society NOW will ensure your seat at Michael’s talk;

“So, what have old garden roses ever done for us?”

Michael is Chairman of the Historic Roses Group and will be sharing some of his knowledge and experience with Old Garden Roses and their place in the story of the genus Rosaceae

It’s BACK!

Back on the calendar and back at Vivary Park Taunton

on 5th and 6th August 2022 with new and improved rose classes and a big WELCOME to Rose Society UK members

for full details of the show, directions, entry forms and schedules go to the Taunton Flower Show website at;

The Taunton Flower Show

YOU MISSED IT!                  BUT fear not, it was recorded and can be viewed in The Members Area

MEMBERS AREA LINK

We are pleased to announce the Rose Raffle winners, drawn by organisers RAFFALL on 22nd January

Thanks to everyone who entered the raffle and congratulations to the lucky winners

Winner of the naming rights and two bushes of the rose is;

Charlie McCormick

The Five runners-up and winner of a rose bush variety It’s A Wonderful Life are;

Jason Saul

John Turkentine

Catherine Shaw

Stephen Durham

and guess who?  Charlie McCormick again! You have to be in it to win it!

We are sad to announce the death of Michael Charlesworth, much-loved chairman of the Historic Roses Group

As many of you may know, he had weathered serious illness in the past few years and had been undergoing dialysis for three days every week in hospital; he slipped away during the early hours of Monday 17 January in Yeovil Hospital. HRG chairman since 2014, Michael had been working tirelessly on HRG matters, despite his health problems, right up to the previous Friday

The funeral will take place on Friday 4 February in Somerset.   Flowers from the HRG are being organised

A full tribute can be seen on the Historic Rose Group website

All info and image from the HRG blog

If you’re planning to increase your rose numbers in 2022 then you’d better have a plan!

Two new videos showing the techniques of CHIP BUDDING and T BUDDING are now uploaded

Sulphur Rose products by GREENACRES offer the rose grower a SAFE and ORGANIC  way to combat black spot and grow healthy roses

Ready to use in a 1 litre dispenser CLICK HERE

Mix your own 250gm pack CLICK HERE

EXCITING NEWS

Have you ever wanted your own rose named for you or a loved one but thought that you couldn’t afford it?

Now you can!

Thanks to a very generous offer from Chris Warner, we have a new rose ready to be named.

It’s a rambler bred by Chris using Mary Sumner and Kiftsgate. It’s a healthy rose that will easily ramble and scramble to 20ft. Most importantly, it’s colour is ORANGE which is most unusual in a rose of this type.

You could be the lucky person to name this rose and also receive two bareroot plants in the mail, simply by winning our raffle!

There will also be five lucky runners up who will each receive a bareroot rose bush of the 2022 Rose Of The Year It’s A Wonderful Life, by mail, during the planting season.

The raffle is run in conjunction with RAFFALL; we have just 1000 tickets on offer at £2 each.

The draw will be made on 24^th January

To purchase tickets and enter the raffle simply click on THIS LINK

https://raffall.com/276376/enter-raffle-to-win-name-your-own-rose-hosted-by-the-rose-society-uk

PLEASE NOTE – WE CAN ONLY SEND LIVE PLANTS TO UK ADDRESSES