Here's the meeting agenda, so you can all get your 2 cents worth in. Even if you can't be at the planning meeting, we'd love to hear your ideas: 1. the date. Has to be between the middle of Sept. and middle of Oct. Any earlier and it's too hot, any later and it might rain. But I don't want to conflict with other rose events (which is the whole reason to hold it in the fall). And I want it to be on a date that it can always be, like 'the second Saturday in October' or 'the last Saturday in September'. If you know of standing ARS events the might compete, let me know. 2. Plants to sell. We'll need volunteers to propagate them. We'll need to decide which of our rare varieties are most important to grow for sale. Recommendations welcome. 3. Workshops. I'd like to have some hands-on workshops, charging a small fee to participants to cover the workshop leader's costs.What would you like to have a workshop to learn to do? Who would you like to take a workshop from? Also talks and demonstrations- any topic ideas? Someone has already mentioned "Roses in the Landscape Garden". 4. Vendors. Do we want to have vendors, and if so, what kind? Just rose vendors or all gardening type vendors? 5. Any other ideas we should consider?

All of these photos are now available on the websites of the Gold Coast Heritage Roses Group: http://www.goldcoastrose.org/ and the National Heritage Roses Group: http://www.theheritagerosesgroup.org/ Here is a link that might be useful: The Heritage Roses Group

I enjoyed it thoroughly. It was good to see friends, hear talks, buy roses, and admire the garden. I found it to be noticeably healthier than in times past. They have been working on the soil and it really shows. Rosefolly

Helen, very informative posts - part one and two! Great to see the full bush shots and the close-ups with the tags. Also very interesting to see how the different roses are performing health wise. Thank you so much for taking the time to post all these lovely photos. Sharlene PS - very impressed with Galaxy (Moore 1980)!! Oh and seems they have the label for Red Fairy (Moore 1995) in front of the wrong rose???