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The Houston Rose Show is proud to put on its HRS Rose Demonstration & Spring Fling on Saturday, April 26, 2025, at Memorial City Mall in Houston, Texas. The entries start at 8 am and the public is invited to attend beginning at 10 am. Below is a Message from our President about this show: April is one of the best times to share the roses that you love with others. The Houston Rose Society Show on April 26, 2025, at Memorial City Mall (Dillard entrance) is a great way to share and encourage others to add roses to their gardens. If you bring a single rose or several roses, a consulting rosarians will be available to help you enter the rose. We will also offer four arrangement classes and have posted three rose training videos to our HRS YouTube Channel. Listed below are the website links. If you plan to bring a rose arrangement, please contact Susan Kelly at 832-867-7013, by 5 pm on April 24th to reserve an arrangement space. Line Arrangements with Robin Hough
Modern Rose Arrangements with Billie Flynn
Creating Roses in the East Asian Style with Diane Sommers
As Rosarians, we are always encouraged to share some of the beauty from our gardens and knowledge with others. It is also a great dress rehearsal for the South Central District Rose Show and Convention in San Antonio, Texas set for October 24 and 25, 2025. Encourage all elementary school children that you know to go out to the see the garden. Ask them to draw and color a single rose or a rose garden to bring and exhibit at the Houston Rose Society Children Rose Art Show at Memorial City Mall on April 26, 2025. There are prizes for the winning entries. Children participating in the Art Show begin bringing their art work at 8:00 a.m. The public is invited to attend beginning at 10 a.m.
This Event is designed to be fun. Instead of a spring ARS judged rose show we will have rose displays that allow as many of our members as possible to experience the fun of a rose sharing event. You can bring any rose from your garden even if you do not know the name. We will help you find its class, put it in one of our vases, and put it in. The public will get to see roses grown in gardens just like theirs and vote on their favorites. Horticultural Classes:
1. Hybrid Teas or Grandifloras, single exhibition stage. Arrangement Classes:
13. Line or line mass Email class name to Susan Kelly at suzzieq1971@aol.com or text/call 832 867 7013 to reserve a spot by 5 p.m. April 24, 2025. Children Art Show Ages 5 to 11, any type of paper, 8.5 by 11”, colored pencils, crayons, markers or watercolors, portrait or landscape may be used. Contact Maggie Zamora, maggiezamora1@comcast.net or call/text 281 989 1088 to reserve a spot with student name and class number by 5 p.m. on April 24. Entries arrive from 8 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. April 26th. Classes:
17. Single Rose
If you have never transported individual roses to an event before it can be hard to imagine how to do it. The main things to keep in mind are that you want to cut the bloom or spray with as long a stem as possible retaining the leaves, the bottom must stay in water, and you need to find a way to keep the leaves and stems apart from each other so they will not inflict damage. We were so lucky to have a builder in our group who manufactured and sold twofoot-high plastic tubes with removable cups on the bottom which we still use some 40 years later. Now we hope to start a new generation of growers bringing roses to displays and shows. Gaye Hammond has lent me some pictures of the devices that she made herself. In the first picture, she cut lengths of pvc pipe and placed them into a clean bucket. First it is important to recut the stem under water to get the bloom drinking again. Then carefully slide the bloom in while gently holding the leaves upward until the stems are under the water at the bottom. According to Gaye, the blue triangular bloom carrier is made from tall green bean cans. Earl soldered them together, but I am sure someone could use JB Weld to do the same thing or use small bolts with nuts where the cans touch at the top. The center piece that holds the handle is made from a lamp fitting (one really long screw base) with a wing nut on top. If you have ever googled flower carriers you know that the green plastic ones are going for $100. Fortunately, rose people are smart and resourceful. Archie Buchman once came to a show with a six pack of coke bottles. He had a bloom of Veterans Honor in each water filled bottle and he found places to enter all six roses. Sometimes sprays can be tricky, and we found that we can make a cone shaped shield around each one out of wax paper sealed with simple scotch tape. Naturally, roses look their best at their freshest, but if your best blooms are ready earlier in the week, you can store them in refrigeration for a few days. Just recut the stems under water and let them adjust for a little while before you put them in and make sure that old garage fridge will not freeze the blooms. Once you are there, the placement people will help you find where to put your roses. Vases are provided by HRS.
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