Our next meeting will be our annual picnic at The Weed Patch on Sunday May 18th at 2:30 pm.  Come early and bring a covered dish!!!

June 8th will be an Ice Cream Social at Kanapaha Botanical Gardens at 2:30 pm for the installation of our new officers for 2008-2009.

The Gainesville Rose Society, founded in September 1964, serves Gainesville, Alachua County, and surrounding counties for information, education, and promotion of our National Flower, The Rose.  We exist to encourage and assist all persons interested in rose growing as a hobby.  Anyone interested in growing or exhibiting roses is invited to become a member.  We are one of nearly 400 societies nationwide, and our society affiliated with the American Rose Society in 1965.  Our annual membership dues are $15. Individual or $20. Family.

The Gainesville Rose Society (GRS) meets at 2:30 pm on the second Sunday of each month, September through April, in the Summer House at Kanapaha Botanical Gardens, 4700 SW 58th Drive.  The December meeting is our Annual Holiday Party.  In May we celebrate the end of the operating year at our Annual Picnic, date and location to be determined.