Jacksonville Rose  Society March Meeting

Monthly Meeting April 2nd, 2024

Grafting Roses:

Ray will demonstrate how to take your favorite variety and graft onto the preferred rootstock for our Florida sandy soil. Fortuniana rootstock will be available ( thanks to Gene Waering) to graft. The technique will be demonstrated and if you bring your favorite cutting, you can learn to do it as well. If you decide to bring a cutting, be sure that it is a stem smaller than a pencil in diameter and has already bloomed. Anything younger and the graft will fail. Ray has grafted dozens of roses in the past and about 1/3 of the roses in his garden of 200 roses he has grafted. Y’all come and join in the fun. Refreshments will be provided.

Please plan on attending and if able, bring an item for the raffle table.