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Rose Herald, Kennewick-Pasco-Richland, Washington April 2014, Vol. 50, No. 4
Rose Herald Tri-City Rose Society
owt.com/rosesociety
PNW District Rose Society
pnwdistrict.org/
American Rose Society
ars.org
Next Meeting
April 28 7:30 PM
Sandburg Event Center
331 S 41st Ave
West Richland
Speaker
Harlow Young
“Photographing Roses and
Other Favorite Flowers”
Read about Harlow’s ARS award
winning photos on page 5! Yes, we
have a celebrity in our local society and
PNW District!
Congratulations, Harlow!
In This Issue
President’s Message p 1
Minutes/April Meeting News p 2
April in the Garden p 3
2014 TCRS Membership List p 4
Harlow Wins! p 5
Jim Campbell’s Introduction p 5
62 Year History of the William Ettinger
Rose p 6
Rose Whisperer—Declaration of War p 7
Officers, CRs & Other Helpers p 8
President’s Message Thanks to all who helped get the roses in the Lawrence Scott Park garden pruned. By my count, we had thirteen folks there. Among the group was a couple that responded to the announcement in the Tri-City Herald and decided to come help us prune and to learn how to prune their roses in their own garden. We didn’t quite finish all the roses on that Saturday workday, but Jerry and Jean Bookwalter and Tom and Marlyn Miles joined me the following Monday to finish the Shrub and Climbing roses. The garden looks good, but may require some minor follow-up pruning. Similar to the roses in your home gardens, we saw varying de-grees of winter damage, much of which was indicative of each variety to survive the harshness of our past winter. This past week, I saw new healthy growth throughout the garden, so there is a promise of beautiful color for this coming spring and summer, into fall. We have been enjoying almost perfect rose weather in the past two months. It is amazing to see how quickly the new growth is developing on the roses. I guess I forget too easily the amazing transformation after pruning. In just a few weeks we should have beautiful blooms to en-joy. And in only about seven or eight weeks, our annual Spring Rose Show will be “on.” I know that Jolene Angelos, Dorothy Campbell, JoAnn Brehm, Helen Newman, Linda Kerkof and others have been working over-time on all the planning for this. To all those involved in making sure that this is a successful event, I want to express my gratitude for your efforts. It is time to fertilize and start cultivating your roses. I trust that you are doing this in preparation for the spring bloom. There are lots of good arti-cles in this month’s Rose Herald to help you get your roses off to a great start. A couple of final notes (1) I have taken over the coordination of activities for the Honor Garden in Lawrence Scott Park. I have emailed a few of you who volunteered to groom beds in this garden last year, but I still have openings for those who want to care for a bed or two. Basically, it will require deadheading, keeping the beds clean and weeded, all of which should be no more than an hour a week. Please contact me if you are willing to help. I’ll be sending out an instruction email soon to all volun-
teers. I have agreed with Delores Beyersdorf to fertilize and apply other
needed amendments to the garden based on the soil testing that she completed a few weeks ago, so that should remove time (and other concerns) from those who agree to help. I need about four more volun-teers (either singles or couples) to cover all the beds of this garden. (2) I will supply an ‘Oso EasyTM Italian Ice’ rose bush as the door prize for one fortunate attendee to take home and put in their garden. It is a bush rose. It has been variously classified as a Shrub (landscape) or Floribunda rose. It has 2”-3” semi-double yellow blend (with pink blush) flowers. It grows 18-30” tall and wide. I hope to see everyone at the meeting on April 28th. Harlow Young
‘Mother’s Love’
‘Sally Holmes’’
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TCRS Minutes March 24, 2014 by Kathy Weber, Secretary
The meeting was called to order by President Harlow Young at 7:35 p.m. at the Sandberg Event
Center in West Richland. There were 20 members in attendance. The minutes of the February meet-
ing were approved as printed in the Rose Herald.
Harlow said the successful pruning demonstration held at Lawrence
Scott Park Honor Garden was attended by members and others in re-
sponse to the article in the Tri-City Herald. The bush and climber roses did
well, but there was evident winter damage to other roses, and the pruning
was severe. A few members finished up the job this week.
The next society meeting to be held April 28 will feature Doug Marks and Harlow showcasing land-
scape flowers and roses through photography.
Helen Newman provided information about the upcoming Rose Show to be held June 7. With re-
gard to catering for the luncheon, it was announced that a new member, Katie Dickenson, will look into
cost and menu for a luncheon to be served to judges and members who assist on that day. A motion by Dorothy Campbell to
provide a brown bag luncheon was tabled until next meeting when more information would be available.
Linda Kerkof stated that our membership so far this year, both family and single, totaled 77 members. We have collected over
$1,000 from membership fees and donations. A list of all members was passed around for those present to enter birth month and
day to be used for recognition purposes later in the year.
Linda suggested that a soup/salad flower arranging workshop could be presented before the meeting next month for those
interested in furthering their design skills. Linda provided arrangement handouts for those interested. Dorothy shared the
importance of using good quality silica jells for dried flower arrangements. No action was taken.
Harlow announced that Ann Roberts will be the person coordinating our rose show properties stored in the MOR storage
facility.
Six members were thanked for attending to the pruning of the Event Center roses earlier this week.
Jim Campbell told a tale of two old shrub roses that he and Dorothy dug up from a property in Kennewick. These are
“pioneer” roses brought west in 1944. Jim has a fascinating two-page history about where these roses have spent their lives.
Suggestions were heard as to where they might be planted to be best shared with others and preserved. (Brief introduction and
actual letter on pages 5-6.)
Jim introduced our guest speaker, Ellen Rector, who has graced our platform before and was
heartily welcomed back. She is a horticulturist who goes into the field and garden every chance she
gets. Her program, “Selecting New Cultivars for our Gardens,” spoke to all of us. Ellen's garden
contains a few roses and much, much more. Many new cultivars could possibly be added to our
gardens, from hibiscus shrubs, crape myrtles, yuccas, hostas, sumac “staghorn” to perennials like
day lilies, hydrangeas, coneflowers, brunneras, and buffalo grass. It was truly an inspiring presenta-
tion. Did you know? Hosta plants do quite well in a pot. You can grow many perennials in contain-
ers, but remember to lower the stated zone for winter hardiness, or protect them. Also, the more
pucker a hosta plant leaf has, the more undesirable it is to slugs and snails. Thank you, Ellen!
The Tri City Rose Society will meet on Monday, April 28th at the Sandberg Event Center in West Richland at 7:30 pm. Harlow Young (pictured on page 1) will be the main speaker for the meeting. He will demonstrate flower photography (particularly roses), and will pre-sent a Power Point presentation of the photos that he submitted to the 2014 American Rose Society photo contest. The public is invited to attend. There will be a new rose bush of ‘Oso Easy Italian Ice’ given away to a lucky attendee. Bring a neighbor or a friend, come and enjoy some amazing photography!
Next Meeting April 28
‘Kardinal’
‘’Gentle Giant’
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April in the Garden by Norma Boswell, Master Rosarian Flower buds are forming; this heart-warming phenomenon foretells joy ahead. Yet, after a hard winter, I am sobered by finding many short stems with no buds. ’Gemini’ and ‘Moonstone’ were hit hard during their first winter in my garden. Leaf buds produced short stems, spending energy reserves stored inside their maiden canes. Now I see three tiny buds – and aphids – on ‘Moonstone’ but no buds and no aphids on ‘Gemini.’ Strangely enough, seeing aphids on ‘Moonstone’ encourages and excites me. In human
society, “Follow the money” to get at the truth about important issues. In the garden, “Follow the aphids” because they go where life is. Believe me, I am not ready to “shovel prune” ‘Gemini.’ In my first spring as a rosarian, I dug out and discarded a rose bush too early. I was tricked into removal by sad black canes and a few green canes with brown pith in their centers. The victim bush actually had a few basal breaks hidden beneath the soil. (Mid-Columbia Basin rosarians insulate and protect roses by planting bud unions two inches below soil level.) I will wait and watch my ‘Gemini.’ Canes can be winter-damaged at various heights. Many of my newer bushes, or those transplanted from another location last fall, have high and low spots within the bush. The low spots have what I call “my Gemini syndrome” – canes with leaves but no buds. I will try the method John Moe used with my ‘Ichiro’ when he found a long stem without a bud. (John is dedicated to building a replacement stock of ‘Ichiro’ and other mini hybrids from our dearly departed Mitchie.) He simply cut off the non-productive tip and worked with the rest of the stem. Back to aphids. Usually I despise them. They multiply exponentially, sometimes doubling the visual size of a stem while sucking life out of it. When possible, before aphids get out of control, I squash them between finger and thumb. Circumstances have kept me out of the garden for several days, so now I’m relying on friendly insects and my trained eye for help.
Ladybugs, lacewings, and flower flies are three powerful insect allies. I’ve learned to recognize and spare these garden helpers. In many cases, the larvae and adolescents consume even more aphids than the adults do. Take time to study pictures so you can spare any stems harboring “the good guys.” You’ll find some adolescents resem-ble their adult form, but maybe not enough to keep you from making an uninformed mistake. Garden allies will stick around, have babies and supply you with more helpers if you give them plenty to eat. Enough cannot be said about weeding. Getting rid of weeds is almost as satisfying as killing aphids, and even more necessary, because weeds can take away roses’ space, food and water.
Water deeply and less often in the cool weather of spring. Save daily watering for 90-100 degrees. Check soil for adequate moisture before applying fertilizer or pesticides of any kind. Read pesticide labels to make sure none of the ingredients will kill precious bees. Regarding insecticidal soap, It's safer to use one registered for use on roses instead of some dishwashing soap you think will do the job more cheaply. The physical structure of registered soaps is different from plain old kitchen soaps. You get what you pay for in this case. Have fun with your roses – each glorious new bloom!
http://www.hmrprint.com/helensphotos/
LADYBUGS.html
Click on this link to visit the site of photographer
Helen Roman, whose collected original nature
photography is graciously available to all. Photos
capture the life of a ladybug from the hatching
eggs to adult. This site provides many photos and
facts—you will not be disappointed.
Lacewing
Ladybug Larva attacks a Root Maggot
Fly bigger than itself! (They serve us in
this larva stage for 21 days.)
Ladybug pupa
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Jolene/Ward Angelos 509-586-0857 Janice/Gary Atkin 509-585-1427 Jeanne/Jerrold Bookwalter 509-491-1391 Norma Boswell 509-375-0567 JoAnn/Anna/John Brehm 509-627-0577 Dennis/Judy Brendel 509-545-6890 Janet Bryant 509-627-2687 Patt/Doug Burleigh 509-412-2777 Dorothy/Jim Campbell 509-967-2606 Toni Cavanaugh 509-521-9159 Katie Dickenson 509-521-7551 Jane Daugherty 509-582-0780 Leo Faddis 208-922-1305 Claudia/Norm Ferguson 509-527-4305 Nancy Foster-Mills 509-528-9083 Charlie Gant 509-375-0567 Debra/Vincent Grosso 803-215-7780 Loretto/Blaine Hulse 509-547-4805 Mary/Steve Isley 509-783-6097 Rhonda Jenks 509-269-4988 Joyce/Ray Johnson 509-882-2715 Mary Ann/Tom Kelly 509-627-5028 Linda/Rich Kerkof (hm) 509-547-1860 Rhoda Lewis 509-375-0123 (cell) 509-851-2110 Bridget/Bob Louie 509-531-5727 Barbara/John Moffett 509-531-7170 Diana Masset 425-392-5845 Linda/Don Mercer 509-894-4598 Virginia McKenna 509-588-3701 Marlyn/Tom Miles 509-627-7003 Radine Mills 509-783-6374 Sue Miller 509-543-1877 Cindy/Tom Morris 509-545-5995 Ann Muggli 509-438-2302 Helen Newman 509-627-0880 Lynn Niebuhr 509-783-1151 Marty Ottem Julie Powell 509-545-8176 June Rector 509-375-1569 Ann Roberts 509-627- 1593 Joann/Don Sayler 509-585-8648 Judy Schultz 509-943-3065 Cyndy Sharer 509-375-4246 Roger Skaer 509-308-6276 Jeannette/Bob Smith 509-547-4302 Judith Smith 946-509-6409 Judy Staringer 509-946-6744 Elaine Tinseth 509-588-8398 Brenda Tagestad 509-942-9072 Shirley VanBuren 509-282-3327 Geri/Ron Walters 509-582-0426 Carolyn/David Watson 509-735-7201 Kathy/James Weber 509-967-3336 Louise/John Wilson 509-438-5570/ Harlow Young 509-735-3481 509-854-6585 We still have 6 memberships that have not yet been renewed and when these come we will post their names in the newsletter. Currently we have 26 Family Memberships and 30 Single Memberships. Total members is 83. We would like to keep our rose family growing, so if you know someone you can encourage to join our Tri-City Rose Family please invite them to a meeting and encourage them to be a part of us. For any questions about our membership please contact Linda or Rich Kerkof
** Linda is volunteering her time and talents to create a special birthday card for each Tri-City Rose Society member. By providing your birthdate (without the year), you will be the recipient of a hand-made card. If you have already celebrated your birthday this year—she will send you a special card sometime during the 2014 year.
2014 Tri-City Rose Society Membership
‘Live Wire’
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It all started one day when I got a phone call from Jim Haun, a nephew of long time Richland resident Margaret Greager, who had rescued a rose some years ago. Jim wanted to know if someone in the rose society would be interested in transplanting two bushes of the original rose. Dorothy and I jumped at the chance, thinking that we might be preserving a bit of our local history in doing
so. One of the very healthy plants is presently located in my back yard. The other, Harlow Young planted at the rose garden in Lawrence Scott Park, pictured on page 6. I have contacted Ms. Stephanie Button who is working for the soon-to-open Reach Museum and is interested in trying to integrate the plant into the landscape plans for the National Monu-ment facility. Whether this can be satisfactorily accomplished remains to be seen, but in the meantime I am so pleased that this bit of our Man-hattan Project past has been preserved. The known history of this rose continues on page 6.
By
Jim
Campbell
In the May/June issue of the American Rose (The Magazine of the American
Rose Society ) members of the ARS hold in their hands the results of the 2013
Photo Contest Winners. On pages 72-73 this announcement includes the name
of Harlow Young, not once or twice but 17 times! Along with the mention of
these winnings are five of his color photos (pages 68-69). Harlow had his hum-
ble beginnings in the Tri-City Rose Society and ventured into shows of the Pa-
cific Northwest District (PNW) where his photographs worked their way to the
top. As a society and a district, we salute Harlow and thank him for putting us in the national spotlight!
His photographs don’t stop at the edge of his backyard (although his yard is full of breath taking exhibi-
tion quality roses). With camera in hand, Harlow shares rose photos with us from all his ventures and
wanderings in our district and beyond! He gives us a chance to view roses we may not otherwise have
an opportunity to see and often includes those unique varieties (along with vital information about the
rose) in his award-winning Rose Whisperer articles. We gasp at the beauty of his photographs, learn vital
information about the rose and realize which roses are a must for our own backyards!
Harlow’s presentation this month at our TCRS meeting on April 28 will show his award winning photos
and guide us through the steps of creating our own winning photographic entries. All the close up rose
photos in this edition of the Rose Herald are compliments of Harlow and most are his winning entries.
If you don’t have live exhibition roses from your own yard, make plans to enter our Annual Rose Show on
June 7 at the Richland Community Center—with photos! Make this your year to enter the show! Harlow’s
entries also include taking photos of entries in the arrangement
division; there are a variety of classes, so almost every rose
photo you take has place to enter. This
month’s meeting will provide answers to
your questions and encouragement for
your future endeavors. Who doesn’t enjoy
the photograph of a beautiful rose? (And
even more when it is a photograph by
YOU!)
Our Very Own...Harlow Young
‘Playgirl’
‘Rio Samba’
‘Christine’
To join the ARS and receive your own copy of the American Rose, plus more, click here http://www.ars.org/join-or-renew/.
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The Hanford Climbing Rose (The William Ettinger Rose)
by Carole A. (Ettinger) Mudd
In late 1944 my family moved from temporary housing in Kennewick to
an “A” house on McPherson Street in Richland. Though the house was
furnished with everything, it came without much in the way of a yard. A
few sprigs of grass and that was all. No trees or shrubs were to be seen
anywhere.
After buying a used car, my father proceeded to show my family around Richland and the surrounding
area. One of the sites we saw was the Columbia River near North Richland and the old ferry area. That
was an awesome sight to see, coming from near New York City.
A few days later Dad made an early morning trip and returned with cottonwood and silver maple saplings
sticking out of the car. He dug them up near the river and we planted them all around the house. The next
day Dad returned with a “dead” looking bush in the car. It was the rose bush in question...it was very sickly
and no one thought it would live, except for Dad. He pruned it back and carefully planted it under the
kitchen window of the “A” house.
Dad watered it faithfully and fed it cod liver oil when he could find it. Neighbors who fished would give Dad
fish parts from cleaning and he used it as fertilizer. The buds started to leaf out and new shoots appeared.
As the new cane grew, Dad carefully tied them up to the side of the house. It was getting healthier but no
flowers appeared that year.
The next spring the rose bush exploded with new growth and by Memorial Day the back of our house was
beautiful! The bush was covered with hundreds of pink clusters of blooms. Their smell filled the yard and
the house too, when the windows were opened. Each year it grew higher.
The rose bush which Dad found by a deserted tract house along the Columbia River by what is now Pike
Street, became a family prized possession. It supplied flowers for holidays, birthdays and many teachers’
desks.
In 1952 due to Dad’s health we had to move. The rose bush was dug up and moved to our good friends
and neighbors, Albert and Thelma Mudd, where it still grows.
In 1960 when my parents and I moved back to Richland, the Mudds divided the bush and gave some back
to my Dad for his pleasure. He had missed his bush and he cared for it like before. Both bushes thrived.
After Dad passed away in 1961, I married my husband, son of Albert and Thelma Mudd, and I later
inherited Dad’s bush from my mother when she moved to another home.
My bush did not survive the move but the main bush has been thriving for over sixty years under the care
of my in-laws and then myself. It is a very hardy plant and should remain in Richland and that is why I was
pleased that the Reach Museum was looking for such native plants.
Though my husband and I sold the “B” house where the rose bush was planted for all these years, as part
of the selling agreement the bush was to remain until it was moved to Columbia Point for landscaping pur-
poses. Very fitting, since that is close to where it started out many years ago. To my knowledge it is sixty-
two years in our family and many more where it was dug up. There is every reason to believe that it is
close to, if not over, seventy-five years old. A truly hardy Richland resident and worthy of a place in Rich-
land’s history.
A footnote, a clipping was taken off the bush and has just survived a very cold winter in Deer Park, WA. I
just had to keep it in the family.
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This Declaration of War is based on the fact that on a certain spring day, specifically March 14, 2014, an unforgivable, aggressive act was committed by one of the members of Sciurus niger, hereafter to be known as The Squirrel. The Squirrel was observed biting off fresh new spring growth from aforementioned rose bush and running off while eating the stolen goods, all the while with a contented smile. This act was perpetrated deliber-ately, spitefully and mockingly in plain view and in full daylight. During its escape The Squirrel was also noted to briefly and frequently stop to look back at The Rose Whisperer, with the sprig of the rose bush in its mouth. These acts therefore warrant this Declaration of War. Therefore be it known that all specimens of Sciurus niger (or any of the Sciurus species) that are found, whether singly, in pairs or multiples, on the property of The Rose Whisperer, are in peril of righteous judgment for the crimes of deliberate and premeditated thievery, plant abuse, mockery and subsequently resisting arrest. Be it known that this 14th day of March, 2014, will live in infamy with The Rose Whisperer; for on this date, the theft that occurred among the roses in the garden of The Rose Whisperer has so raised ire against the guilty species that forever and aye, The Squirrel War shall be waged against these four footed beasts. Be it also hereby declared to all who read this declaration and to all the neighborhood dogs,
cats, owls, falcons, cars, electrical transformers, hunters, trappers and every known enemy of The Squirrel, that the war against The Squirrel has begun, and appropriate measures can be meted against the guilty beasts. Be it per-mitted by this declaration that The Squirrel and its ilk are in perpetuity the ob-jects of appropriate acts of warfare on the property of the Rose Whisperer and on those properties that border his, or on whose properties similar undesired, aggressive acts by The Squirrel are committed. It is hereby noted that such declarations of warfare will be welcomed. The Rose Whisperer, aka Harlow Young [email protected]
The Rose Whisperer
Be it hereby, herewith, whereby and henceforth proclaimed that there has been an act of aggression, vandalism and abuse against Rosa ‘The Magician.’ Yea, 'twas an outright, deliberate, detestable, intolerable and definite act of war against selfsame rose bush and its owner herein known as The Rose Whisperer. NOTE: It is suspected, though not yet confirmed, that similar acts against other plants of the Rosa genera in The Rose Whisperer’s garden have also been committed. By this singular Declaration of War, all members of the Tri City Rose Society should be warned that similar aggressive acts may be measured against your Rose bushes, and that if confirmed, similar and appro-priate declarations of war should be conceived and enacted.
Rose Herald, Kennewick-Pasco-Richland, Washington April 2014, Vol. 50, No. 4
TCRS Officers, CRs, MRs, & Other Helpers CR President, Harlow Young,
3218 W 2nd Ave, Kennewick, WA
99336 (509)735-3481 [email protected]
MR Vice-President, Jim Campbell,
1307 Maple Lane, West Richland, WA
99353 (509)967-2606 (NOTE:
Dorothy Campbell is a CR)
Treasurer, Bob Louie, 20 N Jefferson
St, Kennewick, WA 99336 (509)
531-5727 [email protected]
Secretary, Kathy Weber, 604 S 48th
Ave, West Richland, WA 99353
(509)967-3336 [email protected]
Co-Membership Chairs, Linda Kerkof
and MR Richard Kerkof,
5306 Cleveland Lane, Pasco, WA 99301
(509)547-1860 [email protected]
Rose Herald Co-Editor, Jo Angelos
719 S Yelm Pl, Kennewick, WA 99336
(509)586-0857 [email protected]
MR Rose Herald Co-Editor, Norma Boswell,
465 Mateo Court, Richland, WA 99354
(509)375-0567 [email protected]
Webmaster, Nancy Foster-Mills, 1537
Adair Dr., Richland, WA 99352 (509)
and www.owt.com/rosesociety
MR JoAnn Brehm, 1113 Saddle Way,
Richland, WA 99352 (509)627-0577
CR Tom Miles, 118 Bremmer St,
Richland, WA 99352 (509)627-7003
Rose Show Chair, Helen Newman,
[email protected] 102703 E Vaca
Rd, Kennewick, WA 99338 (509)627-
0880
Hard Copy Distribution, Adam Diaz,
First Fruits Accounting,(509)308-8005
Facebook Manager, Katie Dickenson
(509)521-7551
ARS LSRC & TCRS E-Distribution
Janet Bryant, (509) 627-2687
2014 Calendar
Sandberg Center
Meetings
April 28
May 19
Rose Show
June 7
Garden Meetings
June 23
July 28
August 25
wvww.owt.com/rose society
TRI-CITY ROSE SOCIETY
Co-Editor, Jo Angelos
719 S Yelm Pl
Kennewick, WA 99336