Contact Information:
General enquiries canterburyrosesoc@gmail.com
President: Michael Brown 0276001456 mandmbrown.nz@gmail.com
Membership Secretary Marian Brown canterburyrosesoc@gmail.com
Secretary: Claire Gilroy info@gilroynurseries.nz
Our meetings are held at 7.00pm on the third Thursday of the month at the Kiosk in the Botanic Gardens (apart from June and July).
Central venue with lots of parking, easy access, plenty of room, and good lighting at night. New members are warmly welcome and a gratis rose plant to each new member. Please come along to a meeting to see what we’re all about, there is no obligation to join.
November meeting
Our first table show of the season for all members to bring along their roses. Schedules are available with the newsletter.
There is help for anyone who is completely new to showing and growing roses.
There will be cultural information available and the fellowship of other members to enjoy.
We will have our annual show at the Burwood Hospital Friday 28th of November with staging to be finished by 10:30 and the viewing of roses available until 4:00 PM.
We are a friendly group of roses enthusiasts and we enjoy the company of anyone who loves their roses.
For further information please contact Michael Brown.
Membership is $30 annually (March-February or part thereof). Membership of the Canterbury Rose Society automatically gives you membership of the New Zealand Rose Society. Members receive two publications – the “Rose Annual” and the “Rose Review”. These can be collected from one of our meetings/garden visits. If you would like to have the publications posted to you, there will be a postage cost of $10.
Canterbury Rose Society members have the benefit of local vendor discounts, a regular (monthly during the growing season) electronic newsletter, and free entry to our catch ups and table shows as well as garden visits and pruning demonstrations. We have a wide variety of plant specialists who come to speak at our meetings. If you would like to join our society, our bank account details are as follows:
Canterbury Rose Society 03-0826-0116026-000
If you pay the subscription fee by internet banking, please email our membership secretary Marian at canterburyrosesoc@gmail.com with your contact details.
