Queen’s Herald July 2025
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Our hands-on program will be focused on building the components of a basic
drip irrigation system to improve the hydration of your rose garden.

This is our Feb 2021 Newsletter. Our Zoom monthly general meeting is Feb 18 with guest speaker Baldo Villegas about Spring pruning our roses at 7 pm. Sign-on and chat begins at 6.30 See pg 1. The annual program interest survey welcomes your feedback before 2/18. See pg 7. We have an update on the annual Spring pruning at Pt. Defiance. Details are on pg 6.

We will start our September meeting at 7pm with, what has become a tradition, a
discussion about what roses did well for you in 2024. We count on everyone participating so that we get to consider as many roses as possible.

John will talk about what kind of fertilizer is best for our roses and other amendments we can add like alfalfa. See more about alfalfa in the Pg 2 Q&A.

June 17 – Monthly meeting with talk about arranging | June 13 – Martin’s Garden tour | Deadheading restarts June 24 | Our ‘Rose Show & Tell’ begins June 9.

By 1911 Tacoma had been featuring rose activities for almost 20 years. So you can see, roses have been a big part of Tacoma activities since the early days.