All residents of Thorold and St. Catharines

All residents of
             Thorold and St. Catharines
                            are invited
          You do not have to be a member of a
                   garden/horticultural club

   To ask a question and to upload your rose pictures
              at: m.me/104684087938840

                      or go to FB page:
        Thoro ld G arden Club's Virtual Rose Sho w 20

Winning entries will be displayed on the club website and Facebook page.

             Rules & further instructions on next page.

How to enter:
1. Upload rose picture(s) from June 20th to June 26th
2. By uploading your picture you agree to have your name and picture
published.
3. Roses will be judged and winners announced the week of June 28th, 2020.
4. Decision of judge is final.
5. Awards and ceremony to be held at a later date when it is safe to congregate.

Rules:
1. All entries must be from your own garden.
2. One specimen per category but you can enter any number of categories
3. Name your rose (if you can and it’s category – list to follow)
4. Judge requires two photos:
•         One showing rose ‘face’ bloom formation (bird’s eye view)
•         One in a bud vase (white wall or plain background)
•         Must include stem and foliage (unless otherwise stated)
•         Desired state of flower (unless said otherwise) is 3/4 open
 NOTE: Only judge’s comments are allowed on the flower pictures until after
judging is completed. Any and all comments made beforehand will be deleted
by administration.

Open to ALL:
•       Thorold Garden Club and St. Catharines Horticulture members
•       Residents of both Thorold and St. Catharines communities

To ask a question and to upload your rose pictures
at: m.me/104684087938840
or go to FB page: Thorold Garden Club's Virtual Rose Show 2020

CLASSES OF ENTRIES

                       Class A - Hybrid Tea

                       Class B – Floribunda

                       Class C – Grandiflora

                  Class D – Miscellaneous
               (any other rose, or rose bowl )

Disclaimer

This is not a sanctioned flower show. It is an opportunity to have fun, to
share your love of gardening and your pride in your flowers.
Judging is subjective under the best of circumstances. Due to the very nature
of the type of entries – digital pictures – judging is a challenge. Please
identify which class you know/think your flower should be entered in. If
uncertain, or if the club feels a rose has been incorrectly identified, the club
will assign photos to a class to the best of their ability, All care will be taken
but photos can be misleading and errors may be made and you may not
agree with the results. Enjoy scouring your garden for your best roses,
challenge yourself to take a great picture and remember the best reward
from this show is having fun.

TYPES OF ROSES

Hybrid Teas:
These roses bear large flowers that commonly grow one to a long stem and bloom continually throughout the growing season.
The bush can grow quite tall, with an upright habit (a term rosarians use to describe the shape or look of a plant). Hybrid tea
roses are usually budded onto a vigorous rootstock, and are a great choice if you like large flowers with a pleasant rose form
and if you like to make rose arrangements or have cut flower in the house.

Grandifloras:
These are upright plants with hybrid tea-type flowers. The flowers often grow in clusters, but the stems on each flower within a
cluster are long enough for cutting. Grandifloras normally grow to between 3 and 6 feet tall. They’re almost always budded and
are a good choice if you like lots of blooms for color in the garden and stems for cutting all on the same plant.

Floribundas:
These plants have flowers that are smaller than hybrid teas and which grow in clusters on short stems. The bush is usually quite
compact and blooms continually throughout the growing season. Most floribundas are budded, but commercial growers are
beginning to grow them on their own roots. Choose floribundas if you need fairly low-growing plants that produce great
numbers of colorful flowers.

Climbers:
These plants don’t really climb like clematis or other true vines that wrap around or attach themselves to supports. They do,
however, produce really long canes that need to be anchored to a fence, trellis, or other support. Otherwise, the plants sprawl on
the ground. Flowers bloom along the whole length of the cane, especially if the cane is tied horizontally, such as along a fence.
Some climbers bloom only once in the spring, but many modern climbers produce flowers throughout the growing season.

Miniatures:
Extremely popular small plants, miniatures are usually between 6 and 36 inches in height, with their leaves and flowers in
perfect proportion. They customarily grow on their own roots, and aren’t budded, which makes them hardier in cold climates.
Most mini varieties bloom profusely throughout the growing season and are a great choice for lots of color in a small space.
You also can grow miniatures indoors in pots under a full-spectrum fluorescent light or grow light. Merely putting them on a
windowsill won’t work—they won’t get enough light to thrive and blossom. Recently, the American Rose Society classified
roses thought to be too large to be miniatures and too small to be floribundas as “mini-floras.” The name hasn’t yet been
completely accepted by nursery workers, so these varieties are grouped as miniatures.

Polyanthas:
 A forerunner of modern floribundas, the plant itself can be quite large, covered with small flowers. Their usual habit is
compact, hardy, and generous-blooming. The variety you see most often is ‘The Fairy’ — a wonderful variety, covered with
small pink flowers on a plant that can spread to several feet in height and width.

Shrubs:
Because most shrubs are quite hardy and easy to grow, and great for landscaping, shrubs have become very popular in recent
years. They’re generally large plants, and most, particularly the modern shrubs, bloom profusely throughout the season. If you
want to fill a large space with color, the shrub category offers a great many choices.

Old garden roses:
Often referred to as Antique roses, these roses were discovered or hybridized before 1867. The classification “old garden roses”
is made up of many subclasses of roses, including alba, bourbon, China, hybrid perpetual, damask, and the species roses. Many
old garden roses bloom only once during the growing season. Old garden rose aficionados enjoy the history and study of these
lovely and often fragrant plants. Often the flowers have a “flattened pom pom” shaped flower and the bushes often
grow quite large.

Cabbage Style Roses – including David Austin Roses
Several features distinguish the cabbage rose, which is formally known as Rosa centifolia. The first is
the blooms, which may be white, pink, red, or variegated. As the scientific name for the cabbage rose
implies, the bloom has a multitude of petals. The petals are tightly packed, turning the rose into a
furled bloom of richly ruffled petals with the appearance of a cabbage. People often compare the
blooms to a peony flower.
David Austin is an English flower breeder who began developing his own collection of roses
beginning in the 1950s. Some rosarians consider his roses to be some of the most beautiful cabbage
style roses.

Rose Bowl
For our shows, we like a fully open bloom. The foliage is detached but included.
Clear bowl and clear water is best for presentation.
Horticultural excellence of the bloom is assigned 80% of
the overall score. Overall appearance is assigned 20% of
the overall score. Factors affecting appearance include
level floating of the bloom, how well the bloom fills the
bowl, and whether the position in the bowl presents a
pleasing appearance. (note the example is tilted to show the
rose which is incorrect – rose should float on the surface.)