Our next meeting is Sunday, Feb. 12th at 2:30 pm at the Kanapaha Botanical Garden Rose Garden.  Weather permitting, we will do the annual pruning of the rose garden.  Please remember to bring gloves, a hat, pruners, and any special tools you wish to use.  Also bring along or invite anyone you know who might like to learn about pruning.  The regular meeting time is 2:30, but come early if you can.  Some of us will be there by 1:00 pm.  Please park outside the back gate near the rose garden.


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.  June is the Ice Cream Social and the installation of the new officers.