Rose Society members enjoy the privilege of judging the entries in the City of Belfast International Rose Trials where the roses are assessed over a
two year period.   Each judging cycle entails four visits to the Rose Garden in the first season followed by a fifth visit in early July of the following
year.   Around thirty members make up the local judging panel, awarding marks from 80% of the total.   The remaining marks are awarded by an
invited International Panel in late July.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Meetings and Events from our 2009/2010 Programme
 
 

Meetings, held mainly in the winter months in Malone House, Belfast, give opportunity for many aspects of rose cultivation to be discussed.   Visitors are welcome at all meetings which start at 7.30pm.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

The Annual Bowman/Frizzell Memorial Lecture

'Roses, my way'

was given by Tony Bracegirdle

in Malone House at 7.30pm on

Wednesday 11th November 2009.

Tony has been the Champion Exhibitor

in the Royal National Rose Society

for more than a decade.

(The lecture was kindly sponsored by The Progressive Building Society)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

No meeting

in December.

We will start the new year with a subject of great interest to gardeners,
'The Life of the Honey-Bee'

Seamus O'Connor,
appropriately photographed in the Rose Garden at
Greenmount College, will be our speaker on this occasion.

Seamus who has been fascinated by bees since
childhood is a fully qualified lecturer and
frequently speaks to beekeeping and gardening
audiences throughout Northern Ireland.
He is the Bee Disease Officer for his local beekeeping
association and will no doubt enlighten us regarding the
many problems affecting hives
up and down the country.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

The meeting will open with The Rose Spot providing some topical comments on Rose cultivation.
 
 
 

Lesley Bonar will then speak about Sentry Hill,
 located at Ballycraigy Road, Carnmoney,
the home from early Victorian times of
the McKinney family.

The house and contents give a rare insight
into life in rural Ulster in the 19th and
20th centuries.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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