April! Spring is here and with it in my microclimate there are a few blooms. By the end of the month it will be a riot of color. At least we received a bit of rain in March, but it still is shaping up to be a dry year, possibly with some water rationing. While […]

By Stuart Dalton, President I hope you have all had a great January and February. It was hard to believe it was winter! But now, finally, it is winter! It certainly is a busy time in the Peninsula Rose Society (PRS) rose cycle. In our area, pruning, planting and preparing for the year are common […]

By Stuart Dalton, President It was gratifying to see new people and a good turnout for the January meeting. There was a lot of energy and we had excellent comments and questions. I hope you had a chance to look over the revised pruning sheets and rose care throughout the year sheets that we revised […]

By Stuart Dalton, President Happy New Year!  First, I’d like to thank Carol Wong for her leadership of the  Peninsula Rose Society (PRS) the past two years, and also for her help in the transition. I am very appreciative of her work and accomplishments. I last served as PRS President in 1988 and can say […]

By Carol Wong, President It’s November and your lovely roses should be getting ready for their “long winter nap” by your allowing them to set hips. Pulling petals as blooms fade encourages the development of rose hips. Candidates for “shovel pruning” can be dug up and discarded. New roses can be obtained from nursery sales […]

By Carol Wong, President Six members of our Peninsula Rose Society attended the NCNH District conference in Castro Valley September 23. It was fun to go early, enter some roses, and sit together to listen to speaker Dr. Tommy Cairns show roses as they developed from the species found in the middle east, Europe, and […]

By Carol Wong, President At the August 15 membership meeting, formal thanks were given to Barry and Brian Johnson for their many years of planning, executing, and maintaining an exhibit at the San Mateo County Fair for the Peninsula Rose Society. Another thank you was given to Priya Kamath for her hosting of the PRS […]

By Carol Wong, President Hot days and hoped-for cooler nights characterize our bay area August weather. Watering our roses and plants is critical, as is keeping an eye on bugs and diseases if we want to protect our blooms. For those of us who are too busy to examine our roses carefully, we are sometimes […]

By Carol Wong, President Seeing more roses and arrangements at our May monthly rose show was exciting. Did you see and smell the huge, incredibly fragrant floating “Sterling Silver” winner by Joann Riggs? We also got to see new roses “New Day” and “All My Lovin”, and the old roses “Baronne Prevost” and “Le Grande […]

By Carol Wong, President Are you enjoying roses at their best in your garden, in the neighborhood or in a public garden? Take time to sniff the rose and jasmine-scented air, admire the working bees, munching lady bugs, and fluttering butterflies. This is such a wonderful time for gardeners. We are plucking out plants growing […]