Propagate Your Favorite Roses

Rocky Mountain Gardening Elective

Does your grandmother, friend or neighbor have a beloved rose you that you would like to have in your own garden but cannot find at your local nursery? Would you like to increase your rose inventory very economically? Join us as we learn the latest propagation techniques from cutting to blossom.

Just about everyone grows a rose bush or two. Congress designated the rose as America's national floral emblem in 1986. The popularity of growing roses began thousands of years ago and continues today. The rose growing series offered by American Rose Society Consulting Rosarians and experts from the Denver Rose Society will cover how to grow healthy, easy care beautiful roses for years to come. The series covers secrets to successful rose growing, how to propagate your favorite roses, no pain pruning, versatile shrub roses, fragrant roses, and winter care. Choose one class or take them all and come away with confident rose growing skills and greater appreciation for the "Queen of Flowers."

Price: $36, $30 members

Instructor: Matt Douglas, owner of High Country Roses. Specializing in hardy own-root roses.