2025/2026 WJRS Calendar of Events
 

In-person meetings are held on the 3rd Saturday of the month at the Maple Shade Municipal building, 200 Stiles Ave. Maple Shade, NJ 08052 in the Senior’s room, 1:00 – 3:00 pm. Virtual meetings are held on the 3rd Wednesday of the month, starting at  7:00 pm.

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2025/2026 PROGRAMS FOR WEST JERSEY ROSE SOCIETY

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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2025-GOTOMEETING VIRTUAL MEETING AT 7 PM
An invitation will be emailed with the link and invitation.
Dr. Mark Wyndham will present, “Rose Diseases That Over Winter in the Garden and How to Treat Them.” Dr. Windham, Emeritus Professor of Plant Pathology at the University of Tennessee, is known for his rose education presentations across the nation, speaking at field days, grower meetings, rosarian workshops, master gardener events, extension agent trainings and Consulting Rosarian schools. He spent the last 10-15 years giving education presentations to rose societies across the country. He has been instrumental in helping understand blackspot,
cercospora 2025-26 program leafspot, downy mildew, and more importantly in the last 10 years, the dreaded rose rosette disease. Windham is considered the country’s leading authority on rose rosette disease.
Windham, along with Dr. Alan Windham also from University of Tennessee and Dr. Alan Henn from Mississippi State University authored the 2018 e-book, A Guide to Rose Diseases and their Management (www.rose.org/publications).
Windham continues to take part in research on roses, as he has secured funding with Dr. David Byrne of Texas A&M University and others for USDA Specialty Crop Competitiveness Grants pertaining to rose rosette research. Windham is involved in the research on many of the project objectives but goes the extra mile to then educate rose lovers through educational programs.
In 2023, Dr. Mark Windham of Knoxville, Tennessee was awarded the Joseph and Marion Klima Medal for Excellence in Rose Education.

DECEMBER -HOLIDAY PARTY-LUNCHEON--November 30th, 2025. 12 - 4 pm. The cost is $40 per person, and the location is the Cucina Carini Restaurant, 1373 Hainesport/Mt Laurel Rd, Mt. Laurel, NJ.  We need to have a minimum of 30 people, or the event will need to be canceled. Please RSVP to BethAnn Mills no later than November 21st. Her phone # is 856-986-3499. As in the past, if your dues have been paid for the year, you will be able to pay at the luncheon. Checks should be mailed to BethAnn Mills 127 Orchard Ave, Maple Shade, NJ 08052. Checks will be held until November 24th for deposit, in the event that we need to cancel and return them to you. We will be holding a basket raffle and 50/50 again this year with the proceeds going to our scholarship fund for 2026. The luncheon is B.Y.O. Wine.

JANUARY 2026- NO REGULAR MEETING. -RELAX AND ORDER NEW ROSES FOR YOUR GARDEN.
 

WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 18, 2026- VIRTUAL MEETING AT 7:00 PM. GOTOMEETING VIRTUAL
MEETING AT 7 PM
An invitation will be emailed with the link and invitation. Gaye Hammond “Fertilizer: Right Time, Right
Reason, Right Product” is NOT the typical ARS program given to CRs on plant nutrition. It is a look at the historical development of fertilizers; types of fertilizers on the market, how environmental factors affect the plant’s ability to use fertilizer; when different types of fertilizers are best applied for optimal/economic use; and what can happen to plants with misuse.
Gaye Hammond is the Past President of the Houston Rose Society. She is a life member, of the American Rose Society and currently serves as the Chair of the Membership Committee, a literary judge and has served as the chair of the Development Committee. Since 2002, Gaye has been the study liaison between the Houston Rose Society and Texas A&M AgriLife Extension in connection with the Earth-Kind Rose Research Program, a scientific study originally designed to identify the most carefree disease resistant roses for Southern gardens. With the financial and other support that Gaye was able to secure, Earth-Kind Rose Research has expanded to an international level and is perhaps the largest environmental research study on roses conducted in the U.S. Gaye is also one of the founding
directors of the American Rose Trials for Sustainability, a regional scientific trial whose mission is to identify the hardiest modern roses for specific regions of the country. Gaye is an entertaining speaker and an avid writer of more than 300 articles that have been published in local, state, national and international magazines and newspapers.
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