The Care And Culture Of Roses: 'A Good Old-Fashioned Primer'
The Care And Culture Of Roses:
âA Good Old-Fashioned Primerâ
The Garden Club of Newtown will host a program about the care and culture of roses presented by Donna J. Fuss at 1 pm on Tuesday, January 22, in the Olga Knoepke Memorial Room of Cyrenius H. Booth Library.
Starting with the anatomy of a rose bush, Ms Fuss will discuss site preparation, planting, pruning, feeding and watering roses. She describes her lecture as âa good old-fashioned primerâ on roses.
Ms Fussâs says her love of roses began when she and her husband built a house and couldnât afford a television. They had been given two gardening books as gifts and spent the first winter looking at the books and thinking about what they might do in the spring.
A catalog from a rose company with rose scented ink inspired them to begin with five rose bushes, which expanded as time went on. Then a disaster in which they lost many bushes sent them to the Rosarian Society where they learned and eventually became such experts that they were encouraged to form a Rose Society in Connecticut.
The Fusses waited until their son was four and then founded the Connecticut Rose Society with their first meeting in Elizabeth Park in Hartford. Ms Fuss is a past president and past secretary-treasurer of the group and remains on the board of directors as newsletter editor and nominating chairperson.
A very busy lady in rose circles, Donna Fuss is a consulting Rosarian for the American Rose Society and Master Rosarian, the chair of prizes and awards and nominating for the Yankee District of the American Rose Society as well as an accredited judge. She is test garden judge for All America Rose Selections, Inc., and a consultant to the Rose Garden in Elizabeth Park as well as a past president of Dun-Land-Woods Garden Club.
Ms Fuss is a popular guest lecturer and has written many articles for Connecticut Gardener, The Connecticut Rose, The American Rose and Fine Gardening.
The public is invited to attend this free lecture and registration is not required. For more information call 270-1108.