Did you know that Spokane has its own rose society? There is one, and it’s active both locally and online. The objectives of the Spokane Rose Society are to share the love of roses, to educate people that roses are easy to grow in the Inland Northwest, to provide free basic rose care information and share the knowledge of their Consulting Rosarians, to invite neighbors to come together and discuss roses and companion plants, and to provide activities that benefit the community.
Their web page http://spokanerosesociety.org/ gives you access to the calendar of events (meetings, workshops, garden tours, rose shows), articles on growing roses in the zone 5 parts of Spokane and wintering roses in Spokane, and links to other resources.
Meetings are open to anyone and are held on the fourth Wednesday of each month at 7:00 p.m. in the meeting room by the conservatory at Manito Park, February through November.
Members have the benefit of access to a lending library of rose related books and are given a free copy of the Society’s Basic Rose Care Guide (also available to non-members for $6.95).
The Society has an online book store, where their recommended books are available for purchase via a click-through to Amazon; for every book purchased via this click-through, Amazon pays them a small percentage of the purchase price to benefit their fund for activities.
The thing I’m enjoying the most of their online presence is their blog, located at http://spokanerosesociety.org/roseblog/ You can sign up for their posts via email or follow them on RSS feed. Their archive has posts on unusual roses, floribundas, arranging roses, Old Garden Roses, mini roses, garden tours and a lot more.
The Spokane Rose Society also has a Facebook presence at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Spokane-Rose-Society/171324226278280?sk=wall
If you use Facebook, this is a great way to be reminded of meetings, tours and workshops. This is where most of the photos of tours and rose shows are viewable.
If you have even a passing interest in growing roses in our area, take a look at the Society’s site and consider attending some meetings. They’ll help take the fear out of growing rose in the Inland Northwest!
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