monthly newsletter

Our annual TRS Banquet is Saturday, Jan 18. We will have the installation of 2025 leadership and a great program about soils given by Dr. Gary Ritchie PhD.

The meeting will start at 7 with a Q&A led by Bruce about garden chores this month. Then he will share a program about spring pruning and planting of our roses.

Our annual TRS Banquet is Saturday, Jan 18. We will have the installation of 2025 leadership and a great program about soils given by Dr. Gary Ritchie PhD.

Our annual Rose Auction is on Thursday the 21st. This is our major fund raising event of the year. We’ll open at 6:00 PM, then the auction starts at 6:30 PM.

Our meeting at 7 pm starts with getting the garden ready for Winter. Our guest speaker Duane Scheidemantle will then share his work with cold hardy roses.

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.

TRS, again was able to host another BEAUTIFUL Rose Show! The UPS Rotunda is a beautiful setting for
a Rose Show and the roses made it even more beautiful!

The June TRS Meeting will be “all about the rose show”: prepping your entries, watering, entry tags, class rules, staging, table locations, judging, & more.

A real treat this month: “Old garden roses you can grow in Tacoma area gardens” with Margaret Nelson, past president of the Heritage Roses NW Rose Society.

At our meeting on April 18 our featured speaker will be John. He will be telling us all about fertilizing our roses – especially in the Spring.