Tuesday, September 17, 7:30pm

Floral Hall at VanDusen Botanical Garden


This month we will be featuring Jason Crouch of Fraser Valley Rose Farm speaking on rose propagation.


This will be an in-person meeting at VanDusen Gardens that will also be available on Zoom for out of town members.


As we did in June and July, members are also encouraged to bring in their blooms of roses, or dahlias, or whatever else you have blooming in your garden, to display at the meeting. Bring them in your own vase or container ready to put on the display table. Remember to bring a piece of paper with the name of your rose or other plant to put below the vase or container. Everyone wants to know what rose or flower is what.







Tuesday, October 15, 7:30pm

via Zoom


Zoom Meeting with Ping Lim, Rose breeder from California, speaking on “the Prospects of Modern Rose Breeding.”

 





Tuesday, November 19, 7:30pm

Floral Hall at VanDusen Botanical Garden


Annual General Meeting and Holiday Social.

This is our last meeting of the year during which members will have the chance to elect and welcome our new Executive for 2025,


VRS President Andria Ink will also be presenting a floral demonstration which will be followed by our our fun-filled Christmas Social!  The room will be festively decorated to help us start off the holiday season with a little good cheer, great food and lively conversation with our rose friends.





VRS on Social Media

The Vancouver Rose Society has several online resources for our members and the public to engage with our organization.


On Instagram & Facebook, we host public information pages where we feature events and photos from our members. You can follow our activities on Instagram through this link: External link opens in new tab or windowhttps://www.instagram.com/vancouverrosesociety/


We also administer and moderate a public group on Facebook where members and non-members of the VRS can post photos and ask questions about roses. We have recently renamed this group from “Vancouver Rose Society” to “Metro Vancouver, BC Rose Enthusiasts” to distinguish actual VRS membership from those who are “members” of this Facebook group.The notation of Metro Vancouver, BC also helps to clarify that we operate in Vancouver, B.C., as opposed to Vancouver, Washington.


You can join the Metro Vancouver, BC Rose Enthusiasts group through this link:External link opens in new tab or window https://www.facebook.com/groups/283860336726030


Heading into the fall season, we’d like to feature one rose colour per month on our Facebook and Instagram information pages, starting with the colour WHITE for September. If you have photos of White Roses from your garden, please share them with us by either uploading them directly to google photos using this link: External link opens in new tab or windowhttps://photos.app.goo.gl/kk7PccqqdhckgGPf7 or you can email your photos to the VRS email address External link opens in new tab or windowvanrosesociety@gmail.com


Please include the name of your rose. We will credit our member’s photos using first name and last initial only when posting to ensure your privacy.



2024

A Blooming Tradition!


Our website includes a yearly celebration of the first blooms of every new gardening season.


Once again, John M of Victoria, comes in with the "First Bloom of the Year" for 2024!  While the rest of us struggle to get any new growth on our devastated roses thanks to the very sketchy weather this past Winter and Spring, there's always an 'Old Garden Rose' somewhere just waiting to bloom its little heart out. OGRs suffered no die back this year and will bloom right on schedule for us as they always do.

As per John, R. xanthina “Canary Bird” is the first to open in his garden -- as it usually is!

Thanks for sharing this little bit of extra sunshine with us today, John!


Be sure to check back regularly as we will be updating this page with photos of many 'first blooms' from across the Lower Mainland as they make their seasonal debuts over the next few weeks.


Open Gardens



Every year, many of our members throughout the Lower Mainland open their gardens to fellow VRS members to visit and enjoy the fruits of their labor and rosey inspirations.


We look forward to seeing you all at an Open Garden in 2025.