Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 7:30pm

Floral Hall at VanDusen Botanical Garden


in-person meeting at VanDusen Gardens. Long-time member Brenda Viney will be speaking on the 2024 Regional WFRS Convention in Kalmar, Sweden, and showing us photos from the Convention and her pre- and post- tours saw in 6 days in Sweden. She writes, “It was amazing to see all the roses and other plants they are able to grow above the 60th parallel.”






Saturday, March 22, 2025 at 10:00am

(note date and time change)

Via ZOOM ONLY


Zoom meeting only with Martin Stott from England on 'Ladies of the Rose World'



Maria Valana





Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 7:30pm

Floral Hall at VanDusen Botanical Garden


Annual Rose Auction with Brad Jalbert and Bob Price. This is our annual Rose Auction where Brad Jalbert, of Select Roses, will bring in an assortment of roses from the farm to auction to our members! 


The auction is a fundraiser for the VRS and is guaranteed to be the most fun meeting of the year..






Tuesday, May 20, 2025 at 7:30pm

Floral Hall at VanDusen Botanical Garden


In-person meeting at VanDusen with Amanda Jarrett presenting 'Growing Roses in Containers'





Thursday, June 12, 2025 at 7:30pm

(note date and time change)

Floral Hall at VanDusen Botanical Garden


Meeting at VanDusen prior to our Rose Show with a mini rose show for practice and break-out tables teaching how to exhibit





Sunday, June 15, 2025

Floral Hall at VanDusen Botanical Garden,

off parking lot at 37th & Oak, Vancouver, BC


The Vancouver Rose Society is pleased to announce our

67th Biennial Rose Show


Please join us as we present a judged Rose Show featuring hundreds and hundreds of blooms freshly cut from our members’ gardens.


Admission to the Rose Show is FREE

(Note: Admission to VanDusen Botanical Garden is through the Visitors' Centre and regular admission rates apply)


  • View our show tables that are packed with hundreds of named varieties of roses
  • Our exhibition quality show is judged according to Canadian Rose Society standards
  • View the “Best in Show” winners and the many Award winning blooms all arranged by class, colour and fragrance
  • Admire our easy-to-make beautiful Garden Bouquet classes of informally arranged vases of roses, flowers and greenery from our members’ gardens
  • Enjoy the intoxicating fragrance of our Fragrance Classes
  • Our Photography Competition shares another way that we enjoy the ‘Queen of Flowers’
  • Information Table – talk to veteran rosarians about rose-related queries and concerns
  • Membership Table – consider joining our dynamic club
  • Floral Bouquets for Sale – purchase a lovely bouquet of roses and flowers to take home
  • Rose Plants for Sale – a local breeder/nurseryman will offer rose bushes for sale
  • Cut Show Blooms for Sale – take home your favourite cut roses at show's end
  • Meet the Experts: Join our ‘Rose Expert Clinics’ to learn more about roses

 

Come Experience the

Fragrantly Beautiful World of Roses!

A copy of this year's VRS Rose Show Schedule will be available for download soon. Please check back for updates.



2025 VRS Rose Show and Sale


The Vancouver Rose Society will proudly host its 67th Rose Show and Sale on Sunday, June 15, 2025 in the Floral Hall at VanDusen Botanical Garden in Vancouver.


This much-anticipated event will feature hundreds of home-grown and exquisitely fragrant beauties on display, providing exhibitors and admirers alike a grand opportunity to celebrate the "Queen of the Garden". 


Come experience the fragrantly beautiful world of roses with us. Admission to the Rose Show and Sale is free and open to the public.

We welcome all and look forward to sharing:

  • Hundreds of rose blooms judged for ‘Best in Show"

  • Photography competition

  • Rose Expert clinics

  • Rose plant sales

  • Floral bouquets for sale

  • Display roses for sale at show end

  • Information & Membership table.


Check back for updates as they become available.


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.