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 […]

By Carol Wong, President For our March program, Steve and Diana Stepps illustrated “Building a Low Maintenance Rose Garden” that started with a plan, gopher proofing beds, putting in a drip irrigation system, selecting old and modern roses, spacing them 4 feet apart, and finally planting 150 of them. Improvements included an automatic fertilizing system, […]

By Carol Wong, President “The new introductions are very disease resistant. I can still have beauty and fragrance along with an organic rose garden,” wrote garden designer Dan Bifano in “American Rose”, January-February 2017. In February, our speaker Jolene Adams screened and commented on a wide variety of new rose introductions including hybrid teas, floribundas, modern shrubs, minis, mini-floras, and climbers; […]

By Carol Wong, President Peninsula Rose Society started 2017 with a full water table thanks to rain, and wonderfully enthusiastic new members! Four members joined six older members to help Jerry Georgette prune roses at the Palo Alto Veteran’s Hospital rose garden on January 21. Greg and Erin Chadwell, Dean Chen, Jenny Tsao, and old […]