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Updated List

Annual Membership Meeting
Will be held at the Conference May 2

Due to rain already fallen and rain predicted to fall the tour has moved to the Rose Farm at the Certified Nurseries' Corporate Headquarters. The gravel road at the tree farm was getting too muddy. You will see the inner workings from the inside so don't let weather be a deterent.

The address is:

10126 Hwy 69 North

Tyler, TX

Program - Friday & Saturday in Tyler

Friday May 1
- 2-4 pm Visit Certified Nurseries
- 6-9 pm Dinner with Greg Grant “A Lifetime of Rustling Roses”
Saturday May 2
- 9-12am Tyler Rose Garden
  - Tour with Horticulturist Jana Pritle
  - Shade Garden/ Demonstration Garden with Garden Docent
  - Rose Propagation with Mike Shoup
  - Pruning by rose class with Anita Clevenger & Carolyn Hayward
  - Rose Museum self-guided
- Noon Tyler Rose Center
  - Box Lunch
- 1 – 5 pm Tyler Rose Center
  - Membership Meeting
  - Andrew Baracco - Breeding New Heritage Roses
  - Shauna Moore – A Century of Bloom
  - Dee Nash – Old Garden Roses & Their Companions

Program Sunday in Shreveport

Sunday May 3
- Depart Holiday Inn for the American Rose Center (ARC)
- 10:00 am Arrive ARC – Welcome in garden by Herb Society
  - IRT Judging
  - Wander the Garden
- Noon Klima
  - Lunch
- 1 pm Klima
  - Peggy’s Favorite Roses – Peggy Martin
  - IRT Awards
  - Save the Ramblers – Claude Graves
- 3 pm Garden
  - Tour the Rambler Project – Claude Graves
- 4:30 Depart ARC for Holiday Inn Tyler