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	Local Society Programs

Connecticut Rose Society

Oct. 5, 2008 2008 Garden Review- come with your success stories and challenges for the year- let other members appreciate your successes and help with issues.
November 2, 2008 Putting the Rose Garden to Bed for the Year (How to Properly Winterize for your best roses next year).Annual Rose Plant Auction
January 11, 2009 Annual CRS Member Holiday Luncheon- Pond House, West Hartford (Note different time!)Yankee Gift Swap
Feb. 1, 2009 Calendar Photo Selection Meeting (and viewing of member's photos)
March 1 Garden Design and Planting Roses with other Perennials
April 5, 2009 Opening the Rose Garden for Spring!
April 26, 2009 Yankee District Consulting Rosarian School, Pond House, Elizabeth Park, West Hartford, CT. 9AM- 5PM Contact Dave Candler at DavCandler@aol.com
May 3, 2009 Health and Safety in the Rose Garden- How to Avoid Casualties, and Keep your Gardening FUN! Dave Candler, CR
(This presentation will count as 1 Consulting Rosarian Continuing Education Credit)
June 7, 2009 Grooming Roses to Perfection- John Mattia, ARS Horticultural Judge and Winner of HT Queen of Show 2008
June 21, 2009 CRS Rose Show- Pond House. Open for Exhibitors 6 AM, Open to the Public 1:30 PM

Rhode Island Rose Society

Lower Cape Rose Society

The Lower Cape Rose Society proudly presents an evening with Stephen Scanniello at the Harwich Community Center, 100 Oak St, Harwich, on Wednesday, December 3rd at 7PM.

Stephen Scanniello is best known as a hands-on gardener who transformed the Cranford Rose Garden of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden into one of the world’s most acclaimed rose gardens. After leaving the Cranford in 1998, Stephen is devoting his full attention to maintaining and designing private gardens throughout the United States. He continues to lecture, write and serve as a judge for the international rose trials in Europe, and the United States. He is an extremely enjoyable speaker, who will show us how to change our ideas of using roses and companion plants in the landscape.

Stephen has co-authored two rose books - Roses of America (1990, Holt) and Climbing Roses (1994, Prentice Hall/Horticulture, now Macmillan). Rose Companions (2005, Cool Springs Press) is about selecting the perfect companion plants for your roses. The American Horticulture Society selected his third book, A Year of Roses (1997, Holt) as one of the best ten books in horticulture for 1997. An updated edition of this award-winning classic was released in May 2006, (Cool Springs Press). His next book, co-authored with Douglas Brenner, A Rose by Any Name, will tell stories related to rose names. This book, published by Algonquin Press, will be released in February 2009.

Stephen is the recipient of a Horticulture Commendation, awarded to him by the Garden Club of America, Zone 4, in 2008 for his efforts in the preservation of old garden roses. Stephen, along with past ARS president Marilyn Wellan, will be the recipient of the GROW (Great Rosarian of the World) Award for 2009. He is currently the president of the Heritage Rose Foundation and a member of the American Rose Society, Manhattan Rose Society, Dallas Area Historic Rose Society, Heritage Roses Northwest, and Central Florida Heritage Rose Society. He lives and gardens in Jersey City and Barnegat, New Jersey.

As Stephen, a nationally known landscape designer eloquently states, “I’m not interested in fussing and fussing over a garden, I lean toward natural easy-care designs with plenty of plant variety to keep maintenance down.”

His lectures detail the use of low care shrub roses and old garden roses blended with flowers and shrubs that encourage a more creative approach to a stunning garden design. Stephen will tell us tales, stories, truths, and scandals behind the names of the roses ........

Call Oz or Audrey Osborn at 508-430-5329 for further details and to reserve a ticket ($5.00 for non LCRS members) for this lively and informative presentation.

New England Rose Society

New Hampshire Rose Society

Maine Rose Society

Mid Maine Rose Society

Notable Previous Presentations

Connecticut Rose Society

PowerPoint Presentation "Being the Roseman"- Erwin Ehrenreich

Rose Culture Presentation- "All About Soil"- What makes roses grow well- Tom Rathier, CT Agricultural Experiment Station (http://vvv.caes.state.ct.us/Biographies/RathThom.htm)

Wonderful Shrubs!!!- Mike Chute, CR

Rose Diseases- presented by the CT Agricultural Experiment Station: Dr. Jim LaMondia

Rose and Garden Photography- How to photograph well enough to make them suitable for framing- 27 techniques focused on our ROSE hobby. Dave Candler

"Soils and Plant Nutrition"- Dawn M. Pettinelli, Manager, Soil Nutrient Lab., UCONN