Romance in the Garden – free Rosy Valentine’s Day party

The next meeting of the Santa Barbara Rose Society is on Thursday, February 14, 2019 from 7 9 pm at Trinity Lutheran Church Fellowship Hall, 909 N La Cumbre Road at Foothill in Santa Barbara. Meetings are FREE. We invite everyone to come at 7 pm to socialize, enjoy the Little Rose Show at 7:15 and sample our refreshments before the program begins at 7:30. Our presentation this month is Romance in the Garden – a Rosy Valentines Day party! a free program featuring well-known local rose hybridizer Kim Rupert. In the Valentines Day party spirit well also have cookies, treats, faux rose champagne, plus a vase exchange bring any vases youd like to exchange for new ones! And of course Bring your Valentine. Kim Rupert, the hybridizer of well-loved roses like Annie Laurie McDowell, Lauren and Lynnie will help us understand how new roses are created through the romance between the male pollen of one rose and the female pistil of another via bees or the hybridizers tiny paint brush – to create seeds of brand new roses that hopefully offer the best features of both parents. Guests are welcome! If you grow roses, please bring your cut roses to show off and any rose plants you would like to share. We also welcome goodies for our refreshments table and items for our fun raffle. **For more information, please call Linda at (805) 451-7695. Photo credit: Lynnie by Kim Rupert