By Patti Spezaferro The brown buds thicken on the trees, Unbound, the free streams sing, As March leads forth across the leas The wild and windy spring. –Elizabeth Akers Allen (1832–1911) I finally finished deadheading my 234 roses and now I can sit back and wait to start deadheading. Except, there is rarely a time, […]

By Patti Spezaferro The Peninsula Rose Society started off on the right foot at its January 21st member’s meeting. We had a great turnout as members came to hear Stuart Dalton’s Rose Pruning presentation. February is pruning month and Stuart gave an excellent slide talk on how to prune roses. After the presentation, consulting rosarians […]

By Patti Spezaferro I hope you all had a very Merry Christmas and may 2020 be filled with love, peace and good health. It’s going to be a fantastic year and I am honored to be your 2020 President. I am a passionate Master Gardener with an AA degree from Foothill College in Environmental Horticulture […]

By Stuart Dalton, President This time of year always gets a bit busy. I know it is for me.  I am hosting a baby shower for my Colorado daughter this month, and planning a trip over Christmas to Colorado with the extended family. I’ve never really had a white Christmas, but maybe this year I […]

By Stuart Dalton, President Welcome to Fall in the Bay Area – usually some nice weather and eventually the change from dry to wet. I’ve been traveling for almost a month and it is a bit hard getting back in gear. Six countries including a brief stopover for less than 24 hours in England where […]

I’m writing this a little ahead of time because when you receive it, I’ll be in Europe. I do want to bring you up-to-date on the progress on trying to reserve the Filoli Estate or other venues for a fall 2020 Northern California Nevada and Hawaii (NCNH) Rose Show and Conference. Several people are helping […]

I hope you are enjoying your garden as much as I am enjoying mine. For me that includes roses, dahlias, berries, tomatoes and more right now. I hope you had a chance to relax and enjoy your garden this “off month” without a Peninsula Rose Society Board or Member meeting. For those of you who […]

I hope you enjoyed the first judged show of the 2019 season. Thanks to all of you who brought horticultural specimens. Please bring in your blooms and arrangements for the June 18th meeting. You can refer to the earlier issues for how to groom and exhibit single stems and hopefully you all learned more about […]

Ready, set, Show I hope you are out walking your gardens looking for prospective roses to bring to our May 5th Rose Show. Remember the show is at 1400 Roosevelt in Redwood City (not our normal venue for the monthly meetings. Please remember what you signed up for to help at our show. Thank you […]

By Stuart Dalton, President Getting involved I know many of you signed up to take part in the PRS rose show May 5th as well as setup and cleanup. I think I’ve signed up to give a talk on mid-year rose care as well as setup and cleanup. If you did not get a chance […]