We are sad to announce the death of Michael Charlesworth, much-loved chairman of the Historic Roses Group

As many of you may know, he had weathered serious illness in the past few years and had been undergoing dialysis for three days every week in hospital; he slipped away during the early hours of Monday 17 January in Yeovil Hospital. HRG chairman since 2014, Michael had been working tirelessly on HRG matters, despite his health problems, right up to the previous Friday

The funeral will take place on Friday 4 February in Somerset.   Flowers from the HRG are being organised

A full tribute can be seen on the Historic Rose Group website

All info and image from the HRG blog

If you’re planning to increase your rose numbers in 2022 then you’d better have a plan!

Two new videos showing the techniques of CHIP BUDDING and T BUDDING are now uploaded

Sulphur Rose products by GREENACRES offer the rose grower a SAFE and ORGANIC  way to combat black spot and grow healthy roses

Ready to use in a 1 litre dispenser CLICK HERE

Mix your own 250gm pack CLICK HERE

EXCITING NEWS

Have you ever wanted your own rose named for you or a loved one but thought that you couldn’t afford it?

Now you can!

Thanks to a very generous offer from Chris Warner, we have a new rose ready to be named.

It’s a rambler bred by Chris using Mary Sumner and Kiftsgate. It’s a healthy rose that will easily ramble and scramble to 20ft. Most importantly, it’s colour is ORANGE which is most unusual in a rose of this type.

You could be the lucky person to name this rose and also receive two bareroot plants in the mail, simply by winning our raffle!

There will also be five lucky runners up who will each receive a bareroot rose bush of the 2022 Rose Of The Year It’s A Wonderful Life, by mail, during the planting season.

The raffle is run in conjunction with RAFFALL; we have just 1000 tickets on offer at £2 each.

The draw will be made on 24^th January

To purchase tickets and enter the raffle simply click on THIS LINK

https://raffall.com/276376/enter-raffle-to-win-name-your-own-rose-hosted-by-the-rose-society-uk

PLEASE NOTE – WE CAN ONLY SEND LIVE PLANTS TO UK ADDRESSES

Great news for all rose lovers – The Autumn Rose show at Harrogate is B A C K !

The Rose Society UK is back in show business at The Harrogate Show in Newby Hall, Ripon

Download your schedule and registration /entry form HERE

IMPORTANT NEWS FOR EXHIBITORS

We want you back! But you must register and enter the show in advance. New COVID regulations and a new venue means that everything has changed – new entry instructions – new car parking – new and better show!  Please complete the form in the schedule and send it in asap.

Back in 2019, Peter Seabrook spoke to Tom Nellist who explained the benefits and the increasing popularity of Uncle Tom’s Rose Tonic
Coincidentally, it’s available today from the Society shop

Shop here for Uncle Tom’s Rose Tonic

A fantastic return to Society business!
On Saturday 24 July we had our first Society Event since September 2019.
Some of our intrepid members brought roses to show at our Special Rose Show.
The day was made even more ‘special’ as six of our apprentice judges took a massive step towards full qualification as they passed their pracrical assessment.
Congratulations to them all and thanks to everyone for attending, helping and eating those delicious jam and cream scones!

On this weeks Peter Seabrook weekly podcast we have our very own Chris Warner explaining how he breeds roses and the steps that are needed to get a rose into commerce