Asheville-Blue Ridge Rose Society
President: Richard Edwards
45
Broadview Drive
Asheville, N.C. 28803
828 274 8971
e-mail:� [email protected]
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1st Vice-President/Program Chair:� Christa
Malone
54
Chinquapin Lane
Waynesville,
N.C. 28706
828
454 0828
e-mail: [email protected]
2nd Vice-President:� Duane Bateman
P.O.
Box 578
Saluda,
N.C. 28773
828
749 1933
e-mail: [email protected]
Treasurer (Plus Membership): Walter Gruss
1490
Mtn. Meadow Drive
Hendersonville,
N.C. 28739
828-890-5501
e-mail: [email protected]
Historian: Ken Roberson
38 Windsong
Fairview,
NC�� 28730
828-628-3684���
e-mail:� [email protected]
Parliamentarian:�
Ron Swartzel
109
Merriwood Lane
Hendersonville,
NC 28791
828-891-2516
e-mail:� [email protected]
Member-at-large:�
John Smith
7
Gower Lane
Arden,
North Carolina, 28704
828-687-0527
����������� e-mail:�� [email protected]
Immediate Past President:� Nancy
Baldwin
192
Sunnyside Lane
Green
Mountain, North Carolina 28740
828
675 5862, [email protected]
Newsletter Editor:� Carolyn Tolley
373
North Fork Road
Black
Mountain, NC�� 28711
828-669-6095���
e-mail:�� [email protected]
Rose Exhibition (not a Rose
Show) � TBD 2006 at the North Carolina Arboretum.�
Philip and Cathey Turbyfill, Coordinators
Roses are classified
using the ARS classification system (HT, F, Min, HK or, etc.), but no awards
are given as we consider this an education event. We also have one table to
display the roses from our public non-spray rose test garden (located at the
American Red Cross facility), to provide examples of roses that do well in our
mountains for those individuals who like roses but do not wish to spray.
The
Asheville-Blue Ridge Rose Society meets from January to November in the
Red Cross classrooms
on
Edgewood, just off Merrimon. �There is a
traffic light and a large blue BLOOD DONOR sign on the
corner.
Meetings
are the 2nd Sunday at 3pm. Visitors are welcome!
At
the red Cross Building we have a no spray (except for dormant spray) rose
garden containing over
50
roses. This is a public garden maintained by the Asheville-Blue Ridge
Rose Society which is also
a
test garden that we evaluate on a yearly basis.
We
hold a rose exhibition in early June at the NC Arboretum.
In
September there is a members' booth with roses which are changed daily.
We
urge our members to enter the Western NC Mountain State Fair where there are
money prizes for blue, red, and white ribbons.
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