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New Rose Garden at Florida Southern College

malcolm_manners

11 years ago

As many of you know, we are developing a major new garden on campus, designed by Stephen Scanniello. It will house the bulk of FSC's collection of rose-mosaic-free roses, as well as special collections such as the true musk roses, Bermuda's "Mystery" roses, etc.

We hope many of you will plan to join us Nov. 15-17 for the Heritage Rose Foundation conference, to be held on our campus, and we hope to have good roses in bloom by then!
Here is a set of photos showing the site and what has happened so far.

Here is a link that might be useful: photos of the new garden site

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Kippy

11 years ago

Wow that is going to be nice!

Great slide show

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sherryocala
11 years ago
I love your pot ghetto, Malcolm, and your hunky garden helpers, too. Keep posting pics. I want to see all the progress. It's going to be unimaginably beautiful.

Sherry

Here is a link that might be useful: If only sweat were irrigation...
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Beautiful. I've sat here for the past 20 minutes watching the slide show. When I lived in Winter Haven I use to stop by the collage once or twice a week after work just to walk the campus and the rose gardens. I remember when the school was doing the virus test on all the Double Delights out in front of the gym. If I remember correctly there were 32(?) Double Delights out there. Thank you for making sure the campus stay in roses all the time. Fantastic memories on my part. I know this will be a breath taking sight during the last part of April.
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kittymoonbeam
11 years ago
Congratulations on the new wonderful garden. It's always fun to see a new garden grow. I remember a gardener gave me blooms of Medallion from Cal Poly Pomona's rose garden. I loved that garden. I used to wait for my boyfriend during finals there. He needed the encouragement then with all the math classes that engineers have to take. One of my favorites was Perfume Delight which someone here said smelled like fruit loops cereal. That is so accurate! The roses from that garden went to decorate the rose parade float every December. They always had great December roses as I recall.
catspa_NoCA_Z9_Sunset14
11 years ago
This is going to be such a great resource. I enjoy the privilege of having several wonderful collections relatively nearby (Sacramento Cemetery, SJHRG in particular) that would be sorely missed if not there, so I'm sure rosarians everywhere are going to appreciate this garden a lot, especially the special collections. Kudos and congratulations. (And I thought my pot ghetto was too big...)

This post was edited by catspa on Tue, Apr 23, 13 at 18:14
floridarosez9 Morgan
11 years ago
Now, that's a pot ghetto. I'm in awe. The plans look like the garden is going to be amazing.
jeannie2009
11 years ago
What a terrific project. Gardens like this can do more for the expansion of rose growing than all the florist roses combined.
You are certainly doing God's work.
Jeannie
mendocino_rose
11 years ago
Well that's great Malcolm. Nov. should be a nice time to be in Florida. I hope we can go.
rosefolly
11 years ago
One of these days I'm going to make it down there to see it. My brother in Ocala has a mild but growing interest in roses. I'll encourage him accompany me.

Rosefolly
malcolm_manners
Original Author
11 years ago
Yes, mid-November is a great time to visit. The oppressive heat of summer is usually gone by then, and the roses respond with a great fall flush of bloom.

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