TCRC Meeting
April 21, 2023
7:30 PM

The speaker for the April meeting is current ARS President, Diane Sommers. Diane is a horticultural judge, arrangement judge, Master Rosarian and an avid rose exhibitor. She has been awarded the North Central District Silver Honor Medal for service to the ARS and the District. She is a member of the Greater Milwaukee Rose Society Most weekends, you will find her traveling to give presentations to a local rose society meeting or District convention. Most recently, she gave a presentation at the World Federation of Rose Societies convention in Australia.

Her presentation for our meeting will be on Gene Boerner. Affectionately known as “Papa Floribunda,” Boerner was instrumental in the passage of U.S. plant patent law, introducing the floribunda rose class to America and for saving the best-of-the-best of Europe’s new rose seedlings at the start of World War II.

This should be a very interesting and informative meeting and I hope you will make every effort to join us at the church. Diane will be coming to us via Zoom.

See you then!

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