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.

"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.