The Ventura Rose

The Ventura Rose
The Ventura Rose
Published by the Ventura County Rose Society —An Affiliate of the American Rose Society
VCRS January Meeting & Presentation
***January 22, 2015 ***
Tom Carruth from Weeks Roses
“Roses at the Huntington Library Gardens”
Doors open at 6:30 p.m. for refreshments
Rose Sharing & Celebration 7:00 p.m.
Guest Speaker Presentation 7:30 p.m.
5100 Adolfo Road, Camarillo, CA
www. venturarose.org
Musings from Elton MacPherson
Hello
Fellow
Lovers,
Rose
On
a
very
rainy
Saturday, January 10,
the VCRS conducted a
rose
workshop/
outreach at Green
Thumb Nursery in
Ventura. Dawn-Marie
Johnson and Connie
Estes arrived early to
set up the table (see
photos
inside
this
issue) with cut roses,
copies
of
our
December newsletter
and
New
Member
forms.
They
were
soon
j oin ed
by
Barbara Morse and
Karen Fitzpatrick. I
joined Dawn-Marie for
the afternoon shift.
Sometimes
rain
comes at inconvenient
times but I think our
outreach
was
successful. We made
a new source (Green
Thumb) for getting
the word out about
what we do. We met
and
chatted
with
some
really
nice
people. We picked up
some potential new
members.
My thanks to DawnMarie,
Connie,
Barbara and Karen for
their participation. I’ll
see you at the next
meeting on January
22.
Elton MacPherson
VCRS President
Board Meeting
The new 2015 VCRS
Board will meet at
5:00 pm prior to the
regular
m e e ti n g ,
same location and
same room. To be put
on the agenda, please
email
Elton
at
eltmac@aol.com
Tom Carruth
Tom
Carruth
is
currently the curator of
the rose collection at
the Huntington Library.
He is an award-winning
rose
hybridizer
and
leading rose expert. He
formerly
was
the
director of research,
marketing and licensing
at Weeks Roses. He
hybridized many of the
roses in our gardens
today.
VCRS Dues
VCRS Dues are due
again! And what a
bargain!
One
year
membership for only
$20. Please bring to
the meeting or mail to
Earl
Holst,
VCRS
treasurer,
P.O.
Box
102, Agoura Hills, CA
91376-0102.
Make
payable
to
VCRS.
Thank you!
Volume 22 Number 1
January 2015
Inside this issue:
Photos!
2
More Photos!
3
Special Notices
3
The Peace Rose
4
Schedule of Events
4
Board Members &
4
Committee Chairs
SILENT AUCTION
A surprise awaits you at our
January meeting! In lieu of
our money raising raffle, we
will have a Silent Auction.
The auction will include
pl ants,
gardenin g
an d
decorative items and books.
Three roses donated by Otto
& Sons Nursery for our
auction were hybridized by
our guest speaker, Tom
Carruth (4th of July, Barbra
Streisand, Julia Child). For a
good time, come early and
stay late. Don’t forget your
cash or checkbook. Your
participation will help the
VCRS budget stay afloat!
Connie Estes
Consulting Rosarian
Page 2
The Ventura Rose
Having Too Much Fun at the Holiday Party
!
Did you hide your gift under
the table hoping that no one
would notice? Or did you
display it proudly, hoping that
it would be stolen and go
home with someone else?
To Connie Estes &
Dawn-Marie Johnson
for planning this fun
event and to those
who brought goodies
to share! It was an evening of laughter
and fellowship for VCRS rose lovers!
Page 3
The Ventura Rose
Green Thumb Rose Days
Stagecoach Inn
“Pruning Party”
Come over on Saturday
morning, January 24,
and help prune the rose
garden.
Kathy Ayers
and Sue Rosecrans could
use your help. Bring
your clippers, gloves and
a bucket to collect your
cuttings. This group is
know for going out for a
good lunch afterwards!
51 S. Ventu Park Road
just south of the 101
freeway
in
Newbury
Park.
Thank you to those who helped at our
Community Outreach on January 10. And thank
you to Dawn-Marie Johnson for the photos on
these two pages.
Shh…
The word around town is
that Connie Estes is
cleaning out an immense
quantity of wonderful
items to be placed in the
auction, but you didn’t
read it here...don’t be
late and bring a fat
wallet with money in it!
Page 4
The Ventura Rose
Board Members
The Ventura County Rose Society
www.venturarose.org
Copyright ©2015
Ventura County Rose
President: Elton MacPherson
Treasurer: Earl Holst
Secretary: Teresa Reese
Members-at-Large:
Dawn-Marie Johnson, Nell August,
Kathy Ayers, Dr. Ken Kerr,
Janet Sklar
Coming Soon
January 22: Tom Carruth
Roses at the Huntingdon
January 24: Stagecoach Inn
Pruning time!
51 S. Ventu Park Rd.
Newbury Park
February 26: Bob Martin
The Future of Roses
March 26: Kitty Belendez
Kaleidoscope of
Fabulous Floribundas
Committee Chairs
Local Membership: Connie Estes
District & National Membership: Janet Sklar
Newsletter Editor: Roz Thébaud
Roses in Review: Earl Holst
Publicity Chair: Janet Sklar
Opportunity Tickets: Jane Delahanty & Cindy Mastro
Stagecoach Inn Rose Garden:
Kathy Ayers & Sue Rosecrans
Librarian: Position Vacant
Little Rose Celebrations: Sue Diller & Bud Jones
Consulting Rosarians: Dawn-Marie Johnson
Hospitality: Irene Pashiledes & Barbara Morse
Audit Chair: Bud Jones
Program Chairs: Elda Bielanski & Karen Fitzpatrick
Garden Tours: Position Vacant
Sunshine Chair: Nell August
July 18: Suzanne Horn
LA Arboretum
Consulting Rosarian School
Let There Be “PEACE”
Did you know that the year 2015 will be the 70th
Anniversary of the Peace rose all over the world?
Francis Meilland, a French rosarian, developed the
canary yellow hybrid tea rose tinged with pink. But all
of this was occurring on the eve of war in Europe.
Growers were really taken with the huge blossoms and
orders were placed to send plants to Germany, Italy
and the United States. But nothing could be send
overseas and France ordered nurseries to grow crop
food. Meilland ended up shoveling out over 200,000
roses to make room for crops and he kept only a tiny
area for his hybrids. While under Nazi occupation,
Meilland managed to sneak some bud eyes to the
American consul in Lyon. The consul caught the last
plane out of Lyon in 1940. Those bud eyes made it to
Robert Pyle of Conard-Pyle in Pennsylvania. In 1944
Meilland learned that indeed the bud eyes had made it
to America. Pyle had the idea to dedicate the rose to
“Peace”. It was introduced to the public on April 29,
1945 at the Pacific Rose Society exhibition. For you
historians, this was during the Allied siege of Berlin.
“Peace is not
distant
seek,
merely
goal
but
a
which we arrive
a
th at
we
means
by
at
that
goal.”
Martin Luther King,
Jr.
When the United Nations met for the first time
later on that year, each delegate was given a
“Peace” rose. That symbolic gesture propelled
the Peace rose into one of the most popular
garden roses ever marketed in the world. For
more info, see the January issue of ARS&You or
refer to A Rose by Any Name, Brenner &
Scanniello, ISBN 978-1-56512-518-6.