Nashville Rose Society

Nashville Rose Society The Nashville Rose Society is a non-profit educational organization dedicated to the promotion of rose culture.

The Nashville Rose Society serves all of Middle Tennessee by sharing knowledge and information about our national flower, the rose. Through a monthly newsletter and meetings that feature regional and nationally recognized speakers, we bring you advice and instruction geared to growing roses in the specific soil and climatic conditions of this area. The Nashville Rose Society meets in the Massey Au

ditorium at the Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art, 1200 Forrest Park Dr, Nashville, Tennessee 37205 or at the Ellington Ag Center, 440 Hogan Rd, Nashville, TN 37220. Please check FB page or Website for location of a specific monthly meetings, as they may be at either location. If at Cheekwood, admission to gardens is free, simply tell the gate attendant that you are there for the Nashville Rose Society meeting.

Sometimes NRS members have to leave their rose babies for travel, but never fear! We always seem to find the roses!! Enj...
06/18/2026

Sometimes NRS members have to leave their rose babies for travel, but never fear! We always seem to find the roses!! Enjoy these member rose photos from Ocean City, New Jersey and Amsterdam this week ♥️🩷💛💜

“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Pr...
06/02/2026

“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

What a wonderful NRS picnic at John's home! Beautiful roses, lovely home and great company!
05/31/2026

What a wonderful NRS picnic at John's home! Beautiful roses, lovely home and great company!

Heavenly Scented hybrid tea rose deserves to be shown off today! She is a delicious salmon-pink to coral rose with an in...
05/31/2026

Heavenly Scented hybrid tea rose deserves to be shown off today! She is a delicious salmon-pink to coral rose with an intense fruit and spice fragrance. Each large bloom on this hybrid tea is tightly packed with up to 138 petals that create a gentle point as they fold back towards her long stems. The color and bloom size are incredible on this rose, and she holds up so well in the rain🩷

🌹 Nashville Rose Society August Meeting 🌹Come learn about the latest research on Rose Rosette Disease at our August 3 me...
05/25/2026

🌹 Nashville Rose Society August Meeting 🌹
Come learn about the latest research on Rose Rosette Disease at our August 3 meeting at Cheekwood Botanical Gardens.

📍 Cheekwood Estate and Gardens - Massey Room,
1200 Forrest Park Dr, Nashvile
📅 Monday, August 3, 2026
🕖 6:30 – 8:30 PM

Our speaker will be Dr. Nar Ranabhat, Assistant Professor and Extension Plant Pathologist in the Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology at the University of Tennessee.

Dr. Ranabhat received his Ph.D. from Kansas State University and his M.S. from Montana State University. His research and Extension program focuses on the diagnosis, biology, and management of diseases affecting ornamental nursery crops, landscape plants, and turfgrass.

With more than a decade of experience studying mite-transmitted viruses, Dr. Ranabhat is actively involved in a multi-state collaborative project focused on developing sustainable rose cultivars with resistance to Rose Rosette Disease.

His lab is currently investigating the mechanisms behind virus-rose and mite interactions, while also developing Extension and Outreach programs to increase public awareness of early symptoms of Rose Rosette Disease and strategies for prevention.

This will be an informative and timely program for anyone growing roses in the Mid-South. Guests are welcome!

Hey Jude 🧡 The 'Jude the Obscure' rose is a highly sought-after English Shrub Rose bred by David Austin in 1989. It is f...
05/25/2026

Hey Jude 🧡 The 'Jude the Obscure' rose is a highly sought-after English Shrub Rose bred by David Austin in 1989. It is famous for its cupped, chalice-shaped blooms that feature a soft apricot interior and pale yellow exterior, as well as its incredibly strong, award-winning fragrance with notes of guava, sweet white wine, and lemon. This rose is a favorite of several NRS members, and Jude is one of the healthier of the Austins. Do you grow Jude?

🌹 Nashville Rose Society July Meeting 🌹Join us Sunday, July 12 from 2:00–4:00 PM in the Bradford Room at Cheekwood Estat...
05/22/2026

🌹 Nashville Rose Society July Meeting 🌹
Join us Sunday, July 12 from 2:00–4:00 PM in the Bradford Room at Cheekwood Estate & Gardens for an afternoon with fellow rose lovers and special guest speaker Howard Carman.

Howard has lived in Big Spring, Kentucky his entire life and began growing roses in 1997 after being inspired by the Kentucky State Fair. What started with a few roses quickly turned into a lifelong passion that led him to join both the Louisville Rose Society and the American Rose Society. Over the years, he expanded his garden to more than 200 roses, built a homemade greenhouse, became a horticulture judge in 2004, and today still grows around 125 roses including hybrid teas, floribundas, shrubs, miniatures, and minifloras.

Howard is a past president and current treasurer of the Louisville Rose Society and currently serves as the Tenarky District Director, beginning his term in 2024. His love of roses has also led him into propagation and hybridizing, with two roses now registered with the ARS — the miniature “Miss Paula,” a sport of Miss Flippins, and the miniflora “Anna Mae,” named in honor of his mother.

Howard will be sharing his experiences with propagating roses from cuttings, hybridizing, and the journey that turned a hobby into a lifelong passion for roses.

As always, we’ll have time to visit with fellow members and guests before the program begins. Guests are always welcome! 🌹

Another beautiful NRS open garden to share from this past weekend. Becky Willoughby has designed and created a stunning ...
05/21/2026

Another beautiful NRS open garden to share from this past weekend. Becky Willoughby has designed and created a stunning formal rose garden on her Gallatin farm, and she’s still adding to it 😂 Well over 300 gorgeous varieties with the same variety often planted together in threes. Add her garden to your list for next year if you missed it 🩷

Everyone was blown away by Lisa Schaaf’s open rose garden on Saturday. You can tell this garden belongs to a Master Gard...
05/19/2026

Everyone was blown away by Lisa Schaaf’s open rose garden on Saturday. You can tell this garden belongs to a Master Gardener and Consulting Rosarian! Beauty everywhere you look 🤩🤩

No open garden tour would be complete without a stop at Ron Daniel’s rose garden for a little Rose Therapy. His roses ar...
05/18/2026

No open garden tour would be complete without a stop at Ron Daniel’s rose garden for a little Rose Therapy. His roses are so healthy and exquisite! If you missed this one, put it on your list for next year ♥️

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