It's that time of year again to put our favorite rose garden in Southern New England to sleep for the winter. On Saturday, November 13th we will meet again to put the garden to bed for its long winter nap.
This year the RI Rose Society has a lot of fun and exciting events planned after we close the garden, and everyone is invited to join in. We have our annual Chili Cook-off Contest, Rose Raffle, Group Photo, and be sure to order your 2011 calendars if you haven't done so. Gather up your pruners, rakes, gloves, shovels, chili entries, and unwanted roses (other perennials, garden-related items), and RIRS spirit. The garden closing is a rain-or-shine event, but in the event of severe weather, please check the website for cancellations, or give Andy Vanable a call at 401-663-3777.
Our agenda for the day is as follows:
- Bring your chili entries at 9:30 a.m. to the education room in the greenhouse (the brick room where we used to meet). There will be a power strip there to plug in your entries
- After you drop off your clili entries in the classroom, we will gather in the garden by 9:45 to do our maintenance, donate any of your unwanted roses to the raffle
- Annual maintenance to the garden, mulching of the roses, general clean up
- Annual group photograph - smile everyone!
- Annual Chili Cook-off and Rose Raffle
- Order your 2011 RIRS Calendar (last chance - only $15.00 each)
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