By Carol Wong, President Between showers I hope you had a chance to go outside, take deep breaths of fresh air, and ponder how you want your roses and garden to look in 2017. The delicious meals of 2016 are a memory. The bronze medal of the Peninsula Rose Society was presented to Priya Kamath […]

By Carol Wong, President Why is it important that we belong to the Northern California-Nevada-Hawaii (NCNH) district, the national American Rose Society, and indirectly, the World Federation of Rose Societies? The World Federation held its 2016 meeting in Beijing, China for the first time. That conference kick-started the Chinese into developing not one but at […]

By Carol Wong, President As the oranges, reds, and yellows begin to color liquid amber trees and sycamores begin discarding their crispy brown leaves, our thoughts turn to what we have accomplished this year and what is ahead in our rose world. The fall flush is well under way. Some roses are covered in blooms, maybe scorched in their […]

By Carol Wong, President Bouquets of roses to Barbara Gordon who substituted for Cynthia Chuang as the speaker for the August 16 membership meeting. Barbara was able to bring an impressive assortment from half of her 170 mini roses to explain how minis were developed, how to grow them, and use them in landscapes. She showed photos of her […]

By Carol Wong, President Our energetic Peninsula Rose Society Vice President Eleanor Rakonitz was filling vases for her blooms to display at the Menlo Park Library, for June is Library and Rose Month. She noticed that the faucet was old and leaking. She later crossed El Camino Real to Guy Plumbing and asked, “If I buy a faucet, […]

By Carol Wong, President Jim Crowther’s theme for rose arrangements this month is, “June is Busting Out All Over” and some of our roses may have recovered enough from their spring flush to be blooming once again. Please bring at least one of your blooms or an arrangement to share with us, whether or not it is in […]

By Carol Wong, President Have you ever made a BIG Mistake? Well we almost did not have a May membership meeting due to my neglect, but alert members corrected the omission, so please plan to COME to the May 17 membership meeting at the Veteran’s Building. The program will be power point programs with membership input. As there is […]

By Carol Wong, President It’s April and the rose bushes sport reddish new leaves and buds in singles, doubles, and more. Those who can bear to experiment with their blooms can finger prune side shoots to produce a bigger single blossom, or snap out the biggest bud to form sprays that will open all together. You hope they […]

By Eleanor Rakonitz, Vice President Of course, you promptly turned in the survey requested by our hardworking President Carol Wong. Anyone who forgot his or her dues ($30) please bring a check to our exciting meeting March 15th. Also, have a blank check with you to purchase that perfect addition to your rose garden from Mike Criab. Did you […]

By Carol Wong, President Looking out over the sere brown and green stems of pruned roses, we wondered if we could renew some of our rose garden. You might consider doing as we did, shovel pruning less than stellar roses and replacing them with roses we’d purchased in the fall sales. We put the old roses in pots to […]