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Society Meets on the first Tuesday of each month

Meeting place is at the in the Camellia Room of the Fort Worth Botanic Garden Center, 3220 Botanic Garden Blvd., Fort Worth, Texas 76107


The Fort Worth Rose Society is all about growing the very best roses for North Texas.


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2012 Calendar

Fort Worth Rose Society
Calendar of Events


We usually meet on the first Tuesday of each month starting at 6:30 for a social time. The meeting starts at 7 p.m. in the Camellia Room of the Fort Worth Botanic Garden Center, 3220 Botanic Garden Blvd., Fort Worth, Texas 76107. 

Please confirm meetings by contacting a board member for verification.


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Landscaping with Roses 2012

  • Place: Farmers Branch Community Recreation Center, 14050 Heartside, Farmers Branch, TX.
  • Time: Tuesdays from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

Join us for a series of six classes that will share ideas using the ultimate landscape plant - THE ROSE. There will be the opportunity to order and purchase roses for your own landscape.

Please register for the sessions you would like to attend by calling the Farmers Branch Community Recreation Center. 972.247.4607.

Also all participants who attend 5 classes and the pruning clinic will be eligible for a 30-minute personal landscape consultation.

Co-sponsored by the Farmers Branch Parks and Recreation Department, Dallas Rose Society, and the Dallas Area Historical Rose Society.

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Jan. 10:

  • Event: Landscaping with Roses 2012
  • Topic: Color in the Rose Garden - Journey from Gardener to Landscape Designer
  • Speaker: Carolyn Hayward

 

Jan. 17:

  • Event: Landscaping with Roses 2012
  • Topic: EarthKind Roses – Lessons from the Garden Top Performers in the National EarthKind Trials
  • Speaker: Dr. Steve George

 

Jan. 24:

  • Event: Landscaping with Roses 2012
  • Time: 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
  • Topic: Fragrance in Rose
  • Speaker: Mike Becker

 

Jan. 31:

  • Event: Landscaping with Roses 2012
  • Topic: A Classic Collection of Roses for the Metroplex
  • Speaker: Claude Graves

Feb. 7:

  • Event: Fort Worth Rose Society meeting
  • Time: 6:30 p.m.
  • Topic: Pruning
  • Speaker: Jeff Myers-Chief Rosarian Fort Worth Botanic Gardens
  • Place: Camellia Room of the Fort Worth Botanic Garden Center, 3220 Botanic Garden Blvd., Fort Worth, Texas

Feb. 11:

  • Event: Pruning morning with Pizza Party aferward
  • Sponsor: Fort Worth Rose Society
  • Time: 9 a.m.
  • Place: Fort Worth Botanic Rose Garden.

Landscaping with Roses 2012
Continuation of event began in January

  • Place: Farmers Branch Community Recreation Center, 14050 Heartside Place
  • Time: Tuesdays from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
  • Join us for a series of six classes that will share ideas using the ultimate landscape plant - THE ROSE. There will be the opportunity to order and purchase roses for your own landscape.

    Please register for the sessions you would like to attend by calling the Farmers Branch Community Recreation Center. 972.247.4607 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 972.247.4607 end_of_the_skype_highlighting.

    Also all participants who attend 5 classes and the pruning clinic will be eligible for a 30-minute personal landscape consultation.

    Co-sponsored by the Farmers Branch Parks and Recreation Department, Dallas Rose Society, and the Dallas Area Historical Rose Society.
  • Click for brochure

Feb. 7:

  • Event: Landscaping with Roses 2012
  • Topic: How to prune roses
  • Speaker: Peter Schaar

Feb. 11:

  • Event: Rose Pruning Clinic
  • Place: Gussie Field Waterworth Park
  • Topic: Pruning
  • Speaker: TBA

Feb. 13 - March 28:

  • Event: Individual landscape consultation
  • Time: TBA
  • Topic: landscape consultation
  • Speaker: Landscape consultants

Feb. 28:

  • Event: Landscaping with Roses 2012
  • Topic :Roses Bred for Toughness – Buck Roses and Kordes Roses
  • Speaker: Mark Chamblee

 

March 6:

  • Event: Fort Worth Rose Society Meeting
  • Time: 6:30 p.m.
  • Topic :The Mottisfont Abbey Rose Gardens, Hampshire, United Kingdom.
  • Speaker: Glaude Graves, president of the Dallas Area Historical Rose Society
  • Place: Fort Worth Botanical Gardens, 3220 Botanic Garden Blvd., Fort Worth, TX 76017

April 3:

  • Event: Fort Worth Rose Society Meeting
  • Time: 6:30 p.m.
  • Topic: Principles of Residential Landscape Design
  • Speaker: Steve Huddleston, Fort Worth Botanic Gardens, senior horticulturist
  • Place: Fort Worth Botanical Gardens, 3220 Botanic Garden Blvd., Fort Worth, TX 76017

April 19:

  • Event: Botanic Garden Plant Sale
  • Time: 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.

April 21:

  • Event: Botanic Gardens Plant Sale
  • Time: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

 

May 1:

  • Event: Regular meeting
  • Topic: Organic Rose Gardening
  • Speaker: Peter Schaar-Rosarian
  • Time: 6:30
  • Place: Fort Worth Botanic Gardens

May 12:

  • Event: Clark Gardens Tour
  • Start time: 10 a.m.

 

June 5:

 

  • Event: Fort Worth Rose Society Meeting
  • Time: 6:30 p.m.
  • Topic: A Botanist's Eye - A Look at the magnificent history and evolution of art and botanical science from the first century A.D. through the life of Pierre-Joseph Redoute (1759-1840).  One of the greatest botanical illustrators &
  • flower painters of all time.
  • Speaker: Barney Lipscomb
  • Place: Fort Worth Botanical Gardens, 3220 Botanic Garden Blvd., Fort Worth, TX 76017

 

July 3:

  • Event: Fort Worth Rose Society Meeting
  • Time: 6:30 p.m.
  • Topic: Thomas Moore Roses
  • Speaker: (Mark Clemmons of Seville Farms, Inc.
  • Place: Fort Worth Botanical Gardens, 3220 Botanic Garden Blvd., Fort Worth, TX 76017

Aug. 7:

  • Event: Fort Worth Rose Society Meeting
  • Time: 6:30 p.m.
  • Topic: Pesticides
  • Speaker: Steve Chaney-Tarrant County Horticulture
    County Extension Agent
  • Place: Fort Worth Botanical Gardens, 3220 Botanic Garden Blvd., Fort Worth, TX 76017

 

Sept. 4:

  • Event: Fort Worth Rose Society Meeting
  • Time: 6:30 p.m.
  • Topic: Insects and Roses: Friends and Foes
  • Speaker: Laura M. Miller, Texas AgriLife Extension Commercial Horticulture Agent
  • Place: Fort Worth Botanical Gardens, 3220 Botanic Garden Blvd., Fort Worth, TX 76017

 

Oct. 2:

  • Event: Fort Worth Rose Society Meeting
  • Time: 6:30 p.m.
  • Topic: Erosion and Water Pollution Prevention from Your Garden
  • Speaker: Dr. Fouad Jaber- Assistant Professor & Extension Specialist-Biological & Agricultural Engineering Department, Texas A&M University
  • Place: Fort Worth Botanical Gardens, 3220 Botanic Garden Blvd., Fort Worth, TX 76017

Oct. 11:

  • Event: Botanic Garden Plant Sales
  • Time: 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
  • Place: Botanic Gardens

Oct. 13:

  • Event: Botanic Garden Plant Sales
  • Time: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
  • Place: Botanic Gardens

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OCT. 27: – Fort Worth Rose Society ROSE SHOW

Nov. 6:

  • Event: Fort Worth Rose Society Meeting
  • Time: 6:30 p.m.
  • Topic: A Synopsis of 2012 Events in teh Fort Worth Botanical Gardens
  • Speaker: Jeff Myers, Chief Rosarian with the Fort Worth Botanic Gardens
  • Place: Fort Worth Botanical Gardens, 3220 Botanic Garden Blvd., Fort Worth, TX 76017

 

Dec. 6:

  • Event: Christmas Party
  • Time: TBA
  • Topic: Fun
  • Speaker: TBA
  • Place: Mimi's

 

Thursday, February 2, 2012 7:13 AM