Coastal Carolina Fall Flower Show

It's that time of the year again for the Coastal Carolina Fair Flower Show. Our very own Kathy Woolsey is chairing it this year. Please make every effort to support her by exhibiting your roses and/or attending the event. The show is at the Exchange Park, 9850 Highway 78, Ladson, SC 29456.

Coastal Carolina Fair is in its 63rd year, and is bigger and better than ever! The fair runs from Thursday, October 31, 2019 until Sunday, November 10, 2019.

Theme: All the World is a Stage

First Flower Show Entry Drop-off

Oct 30, 2019 | 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Oct 31, 2019 | 6:15 AM - 10:00 AM

First Flower Show

Oct 31 - Nov 04, 2019

Show is open from daily until 9:00 pm.

Second Flower Show Entry Drop-off - HORTICULTURE ONLY!

Nov 04, 2019 | 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Second Flower Show Entry Drop-off

Nov 05, 2019 | 7:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Second Flower Show

Nov 05 - Nov 10, 2019

Show is open from daily until 9:00 pm.

For the schedule, click

https://d38trduahtodj3.cloudfront.net/files.ashx?t=fg&rid=CoastalCarolinaFair&f=2019_Flower_show_handbook_with_cover.pdf

The Charleston Lowcountry Rose Society May Meeting

Due to scheduling conflicts The Charleston Lowcountry Rose Society meeting has been postponed to

Date: Monday May 27th,

Where: James Island Town Hall,  1122 Dills Bluff Rd. 

Social Time: 6:30 pm 

Meeting: 7:00 pm

Program: Polyantha Rosses by Jan Hillis

Polyanthas and floribundas are the workhorses of the rose garden. Of all the different kinds of roses , Polyanthas and floribundas are the most prolific bloomers, plus they’re useful in the landscape, in perennial borders, and in large group or mass plantings.

Submitted by:

Kathy Woolsey

President, CLRS

May is Rose Month in the Lowcountry

Since roses are at their peak bloom in May in the Lowcountry, the Charleston Lowcountry Rose Society is celebrating May as their Rose Month instead of June. In some areas of the country, the Rose reigns supreme in the garden in June but not in the Lowcountry.

As in the past four years, the Charleston Lowcountry Rose Society is having an exhibition of members’ roses and other rose-related items at Johns Island Public Library’s Display Cabinet just as you enter the library to your right. You can pick up brochures about growing roses and membership application forms both to Charleston Lowcountry Rose Society and the American Rose Society from the display.

The Charleston Lowcountry Rose Society holds their monthly meeting on the third Mondays of the month at James Island Town Hall at 1122 Dills Bluff Rd on James Island, SC 29412. Social starts at 6:30 pm with meeting at 7:00 pm. Everyone is welcome to attend and the admission is FREE.

Our members enjoy the benefit of the American Rose Society Consulting Rosarians who give pro bono service answering various questions on rose culture for free. Consulting Rosarians are nationally accredited rose authorities. They take classes from the American Rose Society sponsored schools and take continuing education every three years to maintain their status.

Some gardeners have the wrong notion that roses are difficult to grow. It is not so. The Rose has been around for millions of years and has grown naturally throughout North America. If it survived millions of years, it can survive anywhere provided you give them what they need – water, food and sunshine. Just like us. If you provide them with their basic needs, you’ll be rewarded with the most beautiful flower there is. The Charleston Lowcountry Rose Society will teach you how to grow beautiful roses. There are so many roses on the market that growing roses is not that difficult as choosing the varieties to plant.

President Ronald Reagan signed the proclamation declaring The Rose as our National Floral Emblem on November 20, 1986. Several states have it as their state flower. Charleston is home to the only class of old garden roses, the Noisette Rose, that was bred, evaluated and introduced to the world by the United States.

Let’s celebrate May as the Rose Month in the Lowcountry! We are blessed with this beautiful flower in our midst so let’s all grow roses. At least One Rose for Every Home!

For more info on growing roses, visit the following sites:

www.charlestonlowcountryrosesociety.blogspot.com

www.rosegardeningworld.com

www.rose.org

www.heritagerosefoundation.org.

Charleston Lowcountry Rose Society April 2019 Meeting

The Charleston Lowcountry Rose Society ‘s next meeting will be on Monday, April 15, 2019

Time:          Social Time – 6:30 pm to 7 pm

                    Meeting – 7 pm

Where:       James Island Town Hall

                    1122 Dill Bluff Rd

                    James Island, SC 29412

The Reverend Joseph Hardwick Pemberton was born in 1852 , an Anglican clergyman for more than 30 years. A keen amateur rose grower, he joined the Royal National Rose Society shortly after its founding, and in 1911 served as its president. After his retirement in 1914, Pemberton turned to rose breeding in an attempt to recreate the "Grandmother's roses" he recalled from childhood. He set up Pemberton Nursery at Romford and nearby where eventually some 35,000–40,000 roses were grown annually for sale.

Using the climber 'Trier' (descended from 'Aglaia', itself an 1896 cross by Peter Lambert using Rosa multiflora), Pemberton crossed it with hybrid tea roses to produce a class of highly scented, generally cluster-flowered roses which remain popular garden material to this day. Initially he classed them also as hybrid teas, but later took to referring to them as 'hybrid musks', based upon a tenuous link between 'Trier' and Rosa moschata.

We will be studying hybrid musk roses. Many of these roses were hybridized in Great Britain and they do very well in the Lowcountry with very little care.

Guest and the public are always welcome to attend our meetings.

Charleston Lowcountry Rose Society March 2019 Meeting

Cramoisi Superieur, a China Rose

The Charleston Lowcountry Rose Society will have their March meeting on Monday, March 18 with social at 6 pm and program at 6:30 pm at James Island Town Hall located at 1122 Dills Bluff Rd., James Island, SC 29412.

The program will be the China Rose which is the foundation species upon which all our modern roses are built, whether they be bedding or shrubs or perpetual-flowering climbers. It’s influence in rose-breeding over nearly two hundred years has been so great, so overwhelming, and so potent that it is difficult to see where we should have been without it. The most important characteristic of a China Rose is its ability to repeat bloom.

Here are a few of the China Rose that are still popular today.

• Archduke Charles
• Cramoisi Supérieur
• Louis Philippe
• Mutabilis
• Old Blush
• Perl d’Or’
• Rouletii
• Slater’s Crimson China
• ‘The Green Rose’, R. viridiflora

MAY IS ROSE MONTH IN THE LOWCOUNTRY

Roses, roses everywhere in the lowcountry!

 

Since roses are at their peak bloom in May in the Lowcountry, the Charleston Lowcountry Rose Society is celebrating May as their Rose Month instead of June.

 

Come to the local libraries (Photos below) at the Charleston area and see the Charleston Lowcountry Rose Society's display of members' roses together with brochures about growing roses, The American Rose magazines and some membership application forms for both the Charleston Lowcountry Rose Society and the American Rose Society. Not pictured are the displays at Mt. Pleasant, North Charleston and Goose Creek.

 

At Johns Island Public Library

 

At St. Andrews Regional Library

 

At West Ashley Library

 

At James Island Library

 

We will also have a booth at the Charleston Farmer’s Market on May 16 at Marion Square in downtown Charleston.  Here is the photo from last year's display.

 

 

To join the Charleston Lowcountry Rose Society, pick up an application form from the display at the libraries, or visit our website - www.charlestonrose.com. This year, we will have a special treat to our members - a picnic at a private plantation in Yemassee in June.

 Let’s have One Rose for Every Home!

"Wine and Roses" Little Rose Show

 

 

COME AND JOIN US FOR OUR

LITTLE ROSE SHOW

Theme: “Wine and Roses”

 

Sunday, May 3, 2015

2:30 – 4:00 pm

Berkeley Electric Office

3351 Maybank Highway

 

The Rose Show is open to the public but only members of the Charleston Lowcountry Rose Society can enter the rose show. The membership dues are $15 per single membership and $20 per family membership and include 10 issues of our award-winning newsletter. For more info, check our website – www.charlestonrose.com

 

For our May meeting, we will not have a program but a Little Rose Show instead. The theme is “Wine and Roses”. Bring your roses if you can in an empty wine bottle with your name, the name of the rose and its rose classification. We limit ten entries per person. A couple can have 20 entries. All classes of roses can be entered including Knock Out roses. The roses are not going to be judged but all entries will have a prize just for bringing them in. Also, at the end of the show, we encourage our members to share their cuttings with fellow members and guests to take home to enjoy or root them or bring them to their local libraries for our “May is the Rose Month in the Lowcountry” project.