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President’s Message

Next Meeting October 23, 2017

6:30 P.M. Benton PUD

Kennewick, Washington Potluck—time to visit & eat!

Vote on 2018 TCRS Officers Guest Speakers

Scott and Pamela Woodward will share a recent adventure cycling 400 miles

through Cuba. (more on page 2)

In This Issue

President’s Message p 1 September 25, 2017 Minutes p 2 by TCRS Secretary, Katie Henderson

October 23, 2017 Meeting p 2 Potluck and Guest Speakers

District & ARS Opportunities p 3

A Turn of Events p 4 Maria’s Story by Jo Angelos

September Rose Garden p 5 Strengthen Rose Soil by Norma Boswell

Join ARS and TCRS p 5 Rose Whisperer pp 6-7 Rose “Sports” by Harlow Young

Officers, CR’s, MR’s & p 8 Other Helpers Rose Show Sponsors p 8 Use them for your gift-giving—all year!

Welcome to the final newsletter

of 2017! It is a frequently repeated

phrase, but it is applicable: “Time goes

by so quickly.” Already the early morn-

ing temps are near freezing, the tree

leaves are turning their fall colors, and

our thoughts begin to focus on Halloween, Thanksgiving and

Christmas.

I trust that for all of us, this rose season has been a

very successful and colorful one. I planted some new roses,

one late last fall, and a couple this early summer. I am really

looking forward to their “mature” blooms next spring. And I

have been thinking about adding a few more next spring as

well.

I am looking forward to our meeting on October

23. This year, it will be a potluck, for which everyone is invit-

ed to bring a favorite dish. We will meet in the Auditorium of

the PUD Building on the corner of HWY 395 and

10th Avenue. We will start assembling the buffet table

about 6:30 p.m. Please come even if you can’t bring food.

Joann Sayler is in charge of the dinner portion of the even-

ing, so if you’re coming, please contact her and let her know

what type of dish you are planning to bring. (Phone 509-994-

4362)

About 7:00 p m. or when the dinner begins to wind

down, there will be an election of 2018 officers. The slate of

candidates is President, Harlow Young: Vice-President, a

group headed by Richard Kerkof: Secretary, Cyndy Sharer:

Treasurer, Bob Louie. A vote will be taken and the officers

will be installed at the January meeting.

Then we’ll enjoy a special feature video presentation

by Scott and Pamela Woodward entitled “Cycling, Castro

and Cuba,” chronicling their recent tour through Cuba.

I hope to see everyone there for this fun and

informative evening.

Harlow

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Minutes of the September 25, 2017 TCRS Meeting by Katie Henderson

Next Meeting October 23, 2017 Benton PUD, Kennewick, WA End of the Year Potluck & Guest Speakers

Come and enjoy the banquet of food provided by TCRS members. A chance to visit and re-cap 2017 in your gardens! Nominations for 2018 TCRS officers will be presented and all attending members will vote. Scott and Pamela Woodward will share a recent adventure cycling 400 miles through the cites, backcountry roads and mountains of Cuba. This trip coincided with the death of Fidel Castro creating unique personal and historical moments shared in this program. The Woodwards are home town products, graduating from WSU and teaching/coaching in the Tri-Cities for over 30 years. They just finished a speaking tour for Humanities Washington highlighting Theodore Roosevelt's’ trip to Washington State in 1903. Scott and Pamela volunteer with local non-profits and seek adventure focusing on cultural and natural wonders.

President Harlow Young called the Tri-City Rose Society meeting to order on September 25, 2017 at the Benton PUD Buidling in Kenenwick, WA. There were 11 members in attendance. The Minutes of the August 2017 meeting, as printed in the Rose Herald, were approved by the members in attendance. The following announcements were made at the meeting: 1) JoAnn Brehm is starting the basket for the PNW District Rose Society Convention that is taking place in Vancouver at the end of October. She is collecting donations for the basket. 2) There are cards with pictures of roses taken by some of our members for sale for $1 apiece.

3) The TCRS October meeting will be a potluck event. Joann Sayler passed around a sign up sheet for food. Members are to bring their own drinks. 4) Michael Rung suggested that the TCRS purchase stainless steel garden labels in bulk at the club price for members to purchase at cost. Several members mentioned they have extra garden labels that they would bring to the next meeting. After the announcements were made, some of the members gave a short explanation of

the roses they brought to share with the group. The members who brought roses to share with the group were Harlow Young, Norma Boswell, Jolene Angelos, Richard Kerkof, Cyndy Sharer, and Joann and Michael Rung. After everyone was done sharing the roses they brought, five rose cards were given out as a door prize to Cyndy Sharer. Harlow then closed the meeting by thanking everyone for coming, reminding them that our potluck meeting will take place at the Benton PUD Building in Kennewick, WA on October 23, 2017.

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We are still collecting ‘Rose’ related items for our PNW District donation at the Fall Conference in Vancou-ver, WA Oct 27-29, 2017. We have $18 so far, and several rosy items (see picture) for our basket in the silent auction. I will buy a couple of bottles of local wine to add to the basket and a few rose product items, such as soap, etc. Anything new or gently used would be greatly appreciated. We can also use rose or garden related books and items looking for a new home for the silent auction. Bring any items to JoAnn at the October 23, 2017 TCRS meeting! Thank You!

IT IS NOT TOO LATE TO REGISTER AND ATTEND THE FALL CONFERENCE!

You must register by October 20, 2017! Please go to http://www.pnwdistrict.org on page 8 for regis-tration form and information! It is a great meeting for people who love roses and want to learn more about them in an exciting and fun-filled weekend! Speakers and the agenda are also included on page 7.

Pacific Northwest District Fall Conference and TCRS Donation by JoAnn Brehm

American Rose Society and the pages of the American Rose: Click here to join ARS—Pure Enjoyment!

See page 6 for ARS membership information and

links to join.

New Rose Introductions of 2017 start on page 78 of the Sept/Oct 2017 edition of the American Rose (pictured right). There are EIGHT pages of new roses to fill your garden and vases!

Thirty-three roses are pictured with a complete background check— Parentage, Class, Height, Petal Count, Fragrance, Hy-bridizer along with additional growing com-ments to help you make sure the one you choose is the rose for you!

This issue also offers “Gardening with Roses” on page18 with subtitle “Essential Steps to a Healthier Spring” - who doesn’t need that information for a suc-cessful gardening experience? This includes Tips on “Building a DIY Bouquet.” (see photos on left) If you enjoy photos in hand—not on a screen—this is the magazine for you! It is bursting with fabulous rose photos—you will not be disappointed when you join the ARS and thumb through this beautiful magazine of roses!

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A Turn of Events by Jo Angelos

Last month in the September issue of the Rose Herald, Harlow Young wrote about visiting the three gardens on the Pacific Northwest District Summer Workshop tour in west-ern Oregon. While inserting his article and photos, I had an idea to contrast his report with a local backyard garden to encourage people with yards of all sizes to create, enjoy and share their own backyards! My friend, Maria Lyczkowski was kind enough to allow me into the sanctuary she and her husband, Gib have cultivated in her Kennewick, Washington backyard As you can see from the photos, Maria has blackberries—lots of them! They are thumb sized and a wonderful addition to any fruit recipe. I’ve been the recipient of these beauties for several years now and they are second to none in the world of blackberries! Tomatoes, grapes, herbs, peppers, pumpkins...the list goes on and on. Maria’s garden pro-duce makes it to the table of many friends—including her hair dresser, dog groomer and the list goes on. Her generosity and compassion goes beyond her back yard and includes dona-tions to the Gospel Mission, Christmas gift items (which are collected all year long) for the foster kids program, she donates to the pet shelters, veteran causes, fireman relief sup-plies—and once again, the list goes on and on. While taking some photos, I learned not only the history of the trees and plantings (she did all of them) in this quaint back yard, but a little about the life and history of how she and her family became planted in the United States. My intention was to showcase the beauty and abundance of Maria’s backyard but with a turn of events, I learned the story of childhood days that were far from the beautiful...and certainly without an abundance of child-hood necessities.

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Maria was born in Poland in August of 1944. After the Germans took over Poland, her mother and siblings were placed in a concentration camp when Maria was a small child. Her father was placed in a working camp with other able bodied men. Whereas Maria was too young to remember the horrific events and conditions, her oldest brother has given her many parts to her family history. One such event is the family being put in horse drawn wagons and taken to Austria from the camp. This is where they lived until their immigration process began in 1949. Maria was diagnosed with tuberculosis when she was 3 (a rampant disease in the concentration camps) and was sent to a German sanitorium for a year. She was surrounded by different languages—according to where she was living at that moment—and adapted to all of them.

Maria’s mother was dedicated to work on the immigration process for their family. There were countries which were very definite on who and how many in a family they would allow to immigrate. South America was the destination her family was accepted to come to. Her oldest brother was 14, so he could be classified as a working adult. The family headed on their way out of Austria. Maria still has the newspaper article that tells of another “turn of events” in her life. The article reports there was “a sick little girl on the ship which caused them to go to a US port”—instead of traveling on to South America. This event certainly was a ben-efit to the citizens of United States! Maria set foot in the United States in June 1950 and turned 6 in August. She began school with her brothers—without knowing English—and adapted, but not with-out struggles. While school provided a learning facility for her, there was a rigid, less than compassionate way the school was run. Her warm and tender understanding of children and their struggles certainly stems from a time of feeling lost and misunder-

stood. Maria’s brother was born a few months after they were settled in their new country, and he became the first American citizen of their family. Citizenship required the rest of them to live in the US for 5 years and reach an age of 18. Maria became a citizen in 1962. Maria recalls the buttons you can see on her brother’s jacket in the photo to the bottom on the right. They had to be turned in when they were admitted into the country they were immigrating into. The organization they were placed under once they were in the United States was International Relief Organization—a branch of the United Nations. With only $7 this family started a new life in a brand new country. A family sponsored them once they were in the United States through the NCWC National Catholic Welfare Council in Maxton, NC. This spon-sorship gave her father a job at a dairy. He was a bricklayer and carpenter by trade and struggled with the job and language barrier. They soon moved to Stanford, NC where her father was given a new job

which utilized his skills. Maria would call Stanford home until she graduated from high school. The family consisted of the five children in Austria and grew to seven after two were born in the United States. Maria and her family never had a translator to help them in their move. She remembers listening to the radio to learn to speak English. She says she often times didn’t know what she was singing—but she could sing along with every song on the radio!

Photos from the top left include Maria in her Polish National dress, photos on the right are of the family before they left Austria. The school photo is of Maria with her older brothers on her first day of school in

America. To the left is the family in Stanford, North Carolina.

Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. James M Barrie

Thank you for bringing sunshine to so many, Maria!

A Turn of Events, continued

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Roses have a huge thing in common with humans: health depends on favorable microbes. Humans carry benefi-cial microbes in their guts, roses in their roots. Unwitting practices have killed most of these microbes. Roses and humans now stand vulnerable to pests, diseases and environmental stresses. Therefore, it becomes mandatory to restore ecological nutrients. An eye-opening recommendation by Dr. Mercola this month in http://www.mercola.com recommends giving the gift of beneficial microbes. They will help roses withstand bad weather - and dispel the need for dozens of harmful chemicals that started the prob-lem in the first place. Beneficial soil microorganisms (including rhizobia, mycorrhizal fungi, actinomycetes and bacteria) create symbiotic relationships with rose roots. The mycorrhizal hyphal network becomes a natural extension of the root system. Mycorrhizae provide many bene-fits, including protection against diseases, water stress, high and low soil temperatures, adverse pH and insects. Our Treasurer, Bob Louie, rec-ommends Dr. Earth organic fertilizers and soils. Their products feed the soil, allowing the roots and our treasured plants to thrive. (See https://drearth.com/.) Mint compost for organic gardening feeds the soil and benefits roses. It also repels aphids, spider mites and other damaging insects. It’s costly but may be worth it for a small garden or special plants. (See https://www.heirloomroses.com/heirloom-roses-100-natural-mint-compost.html.) Fungus is a problem for roses and many humans. Blackspot and powdery mildew beg for a remedy, and maybe eczema and nail fungus. Neem oil used to be my every-season rose remedy, but no longer. It may be okay for humans, but it’s wrong for organic gardening. Pack-age directions warn not to apply when bees and ladybugs are active. It kills on contact and remains on their food source (roses). I had not real-ized that azadirachtin (the main ingredient in Neem oil) might be one of many killer chemical pesticides. If not Neem oil, then what? Jack Falker, Minnesota rose gardener, recommends Mancozeb/Manzate, a fungicide which controls blackspot better than Neem in his own garden, and lists no harmful ingredients. (See the September/October 2017 issue of American Rose, p. 38.) Clip rather than pull diseased rose leaves. Pulling leaves off will tear portions of the stem and provide an entry point for disease. Before mulching, fill your trash can with rose garden debris. Don’t cultivate disease by tossing debris into the compost pile. Lower the height of rose bushes that will rock in windstorms. We don’t want precious roots exposed to winter freeze. Nor do we want our precious friends (including pets) to freeze. Bundle up. Water! Surround rose roots with moisture before winter frost. Remember to drink water too.

Let us help you with your first 2018 New Year’s Resolution! “A Year to Make a Difference!” In this day of hand held devices, crazy schedules and constant change...maybe it is time to make a difference... the Tri-City Rose Society and ARS will give you every opportunity for this new venture! As a member of the TCRS there is a chance for “hands-on” learning and service. People need to feel “a part” of something and what better way to fulfill this need than helping at the Lawrence Scott Park Rose Garden, volunteering at an event—or just sharing your compassion (roses) with others. We value the life-long friendships and enjoy the teaching of our mentors in this society. Longevity often comes with guts and determination—and possibly a pair of gloves! January will be a time to renew your membership ($17 for single membership, $22 for family). Katie Henderson will be continuing as our membership chairperson in 2018 and will look forward to sign you up for another year! Her contact information, as always, is on page 8. As a member of the TCRS:

Receive ten issues of the Rose Herald. Every month before the meeting, read about the agenda, expert garden tips, District and ARS news and photos from our local gardens.

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Start thinking now how you might “make a difference.” A positive change never happens without the first step in the right direction.

The American Rose Society has been around for 125 years! They know roses! “The ARS exists to promote the culture, preservation and appreciation of the Rose and to improve its standard of excellence for all people, through education and research. “

Several choices with a new ARS membership: Four-month Trial Membership for only $10. (Click here to see all the benefits http://www.rose.org/resources/trial-membership/.) Enjoy a Full Year Membership for only $49 with almost endless benefits. (Click here http://www.rose.org/join-or-renew/.) See page 4 in this issue of the Rose Herald for a peek into the pages of the Sept/Oct issue of the American Rose magazine. Try an E-Membership free for rose growing information, tips and offers. (Click here http://www.rose.org/resources/e-membership/)

Membership Information for the Tri-City Rose Society and American Rose Society

September Rose Garden STRENGTHEN ROSE SOIL by Norma Boswell, Master Rosarian

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The Rose Whisperer A Good Sport by Harlow Young

I looked through the internet for how the word “sport” can be used in a sentence. Not surprisingly, there were dozens (perhaps hundreds) of sentences which used that word in athletic and other senses, but I found none that used it in a botanical sense. The truth is that I got tired of looking after about the fifth page of examples, and turned to the on-line dictionary looking for the varied definitions of that word, with better success. There were botani-cal references, such as “An organism or a part of an organism that shows a marked change from the parent type, typically as a result of mutation” (from thefreedictiomary.com). You might wonder what this term has to do with roses.

John Fisher, in his book The Companion to Roses, defines a sport and helps explain why I was searching on this word:

Actually, among rose enthusiasts, this phenomenon is more common than one might think; certainly more common than I first thought. As a novice rosarian, I had no idea that roses actually mutated to “sport” new colorations or types of roses, but as I have learned more about our shared hobby, I have been amazed at the diversity among the roses that we grow which have come from this type of generation rather than by con-ventional hybridization or open pollination. This type of generation was made freshly evident to me during the recent late-summer garden tour sponsored by the Pacific Northwest District Rose Society. One of the gardens that we visited was that of John Sitton in Albany, Oregon. John has an amazing

garden of mostly roses (he says “about four hundred roses”) artistically mixed with other annuals and perennials. Among John’s roses are two new “sports” of ‘Playgirl,’ which he has propagated and which are now named and registered with the American Rose Society. The photo (top left) of ‘Playgirl’ is Rich Baer’s winning photo of the 2016 PNW District photo contest. Notice the rich brilliant dark pink tones of this variety. Below you’ll notice the obviously lighter tones of the two new varieties that have “sported” from ‘Playgirl’ in John’s garden. The first, John named ‘Blushing Princess' (left). You’ll notice that its flower has the same shape and same bright yellow display of stamens of its parent, but the color of the petals is very light pink. The second sport was named ‘Helen Ann’ (above right) in honor of his mother.

It too is a lighter pink than ‘Playgirl,’ but darker pink than ‘Blushing Princess’ and like her sister, maintains all other characteristics of its sport parent. We may soon see both of these new sports available commercially. (The photos of ‘Blushing Princess’ and ‘Helen Ann’ are Harlow’s, taken from the roses as they were blooming in John’s garden on the day of the tour.)

Or, (at right) consider the Floribunda rose ‘Iceberg.’ It has given us some very interesting new roses by way of sporting.

For example ‘Pink Iceberg’ (no photo) sported from it, which in turn sported ‘Brilliant Pink Iceberg’ (bottom left), which then gave us ‘Burgundy Iceberg’ (bottom right) by way of a sport. The photo of ‘Burgundy Iceberg’ is interesting in the fact that it is also showing its ‘Iceberg’ lineage with a totally white bloom on the same branch as its burgundy blooms! This happened twice this growing season in my garden. I have other varieties in my garden that came by way of a parent rose sporting a new colored rose. If you were to follow the lineage of the roses in your garden, you too could discover that several have developed from a sport of a parent plant. This does not make them inferior in any way. It only

adds to their stories. Resources: 1. John Fisher, The Companion To Roses, Viking Penguin Inc, 1986, p. 187 2. https://www.helpmefind.com/rose/l.php?l=2.2203 (reference for ‘Peace’)

“SPORT—A spontaneous development in which one part or feature is untypical of the rest of the plant. The special characteristic of a sport can be propagated vegetatively...for example, by budding... but not through seed, a limitation that distinguishes it from species mutation.”

I am guessing that many of our readers have roses in their gardens that are the result of propagated sports from a parent plant. For example, if you are growing ‘Chicago Peace’ (1st photo below), ‘Climbing Peace’ (not shown) or ‘Flaming Peace’ (2nd photo), these are all sports of the popular parent ‘Peace’(3rd photo).

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The Sponsors for the 2017 Rose Show Schedule contributed $1100 toward the printing costs for the schedule and fee for

use of the Community Center! Please support these businesses and be sure to tell them “Thank you” as a member from

the Tri-City Rose Society. They are a vital part of the funding for our show—let’s get out there and let them know they are

appreciated! Click on each link to find them quickly, post a “Thank You” on their Facebook pages or personally thank as

you shop.

Heritage Nursery and Garden Center 2816 W 27th Ave–Kennewick Heritagelandscaping.com

Pallis Pool & Patio, 201 N Fruitland—Kennewick Pallispool.com

Wood’s Nursery, 2615 Van Giesen—Richland www.woodsnursery.biz

C & M Nursery & Gift Shop, 2517 Van Giesen— Richland candmlandscaping.com

Ranch & Home, 845 N Columbia Center Blvd—Kennewick http://www.ranch-home.com/

Flower Farm, Columbia Center Blvd—Kennewick www.tricitiesflowerfarm.com/

Job’s Nursery, 4072 Columbia River Rd—Pasco www.jobsnursery.com

Mac’s Garden Center, 6711 W Court— Pasco www.facebook.com/Macs-Garden-Center-

Columbia Grain & Feed, 2001 West Lewis St—Pasco www.columbiagrainandfeed.net

Farmer’s Exchange, 215 W Canal Dr—Kennewick www1.mowerhome.com

Washington Hardware, 6 W Kennewick Ave www.washingtonhardwareandfurniture.com

Jesse’s Lawn Maintenance, 6418 W Deschutes Ave—Kennewick www.jesseslawn.com/

B & B Printing—Kennewick & Pasco www.bbprinting.com

Northland Rosarium, 9405 S Williams Lane—Spokane, WA www.northlandrosarium.com

LuLaRoe with Christine Diaz & Jane Cassinelli www.facebook.com/groups/lularoechristinejane/

President, Harlow Young, CR 3218 W 2nd Ave, Kennewick, WA 99336 (509)735-3481 threegkids@charter.net Vice-President, Jim Campbell, MR 1307 Maple Lane, West Richland, WA 99353 (509)967-2606 (NOTE: Dorothy Campbell is also a MR) scotch1943@charter.net Treasurer, Bob Louie, 20 N Jefferson St, Kennewick, WA 99336 (509) 531-5727 blouie1@charter.net Secretary, Facebook Manager, Membership Chair Katie (Dickenson) Henderson, 3611 W 15th Ave Unit 4, Kennewick, WA 99336 (509)521-7551 katiemaedickenson@gmail.com Education Chair, Richard Kerkof, MR 4002 Meadow View Drive, Pasco, WA 99301 (509)547-1860 rjkerkof@gmail.com Rose Herald Co-Editor, Norma Boswell, MR 465 Mateo Court, Richland, WA 99354 (509)375-0567 rosybos@owt.com

Rose Herald Co-Editor, Jo Angelos, 719 S Yelm Pl, Kennewick, WA 99336 (509)586-0857 angelosfolk@gmail.com Webmaster, Nancy Foster-Mills, 1537 Adair Dr, Richland, WA 99352 (509)528-9083 nmisc@owt.com and www.owt.com/rosesociety

Show Chair, JoAnn Brehm, MR,

1113 Saddle Way, Richland, WA

99352 (509)627-0577

jobrehm@outlook.com

Tom Miles, CR, 1800 Bellerive Dr

Richland, WA 99352 (509)628-

0221 (Rm 208)

thmpmiles@gmail.com

TCRS Rose Show Awards

Chair, Janet Bryant, (509)627-

2687 janetsbliss@hotmail.com

Benton/Franklin

PUD Meetings

October 23, 2017

6:30 P.M.

End of the Year

Potluck

Guest Speakers Scott and

Pam Woodward (More information on

page 2)

2018 Meetings

January 22, 2018

February 26, 2018

March 26, 2018