The Ventura County Rose Society - Awards Received by VCRS and VCRS Members

Awards Received by VCRS and VCRS Members

To the left is Ingrid Wapelhort's Award of Merit from the American Rose Society for her article on Kim Rupert and his roses. Ingrid was one of four VCRS members to receive awards for 2005.

Jim Delahanty received an award for his article on 'Relocating Roses; Sue Munday, Jim Delahanty and Kim Rupert received honors for the 2005 Rose Auction catalog. All of these articles either appeared in the Ventura County Rose Society Bulletin or under the auspices of the VCRS.

At the District Convention Banquet on Saturday night, April 15th, Bob Martin, Jr. District Director, announced that the Stagecoach Inn Rose Garden, managed by Sue Rosecrans and Kathy Ayers, had been awarded the Pacific Southwest District Director Award for Excellence in Public Rose Gardens for 2006. Previous winners include the A.C Postal Garden in Santa Barbara, and the Mesa Community College Rose Garden in Arizona.

The Stagecoach Inn Rose Garden was designed by Jeri Jennings in 1994 and has been maintained by the Ventura County Rose Society and the Conejo Valley Historical Society over the past decade. The garden contains over 50 rose bushes of types in existence prior to 1910; all of the roses are representative of roses available in the Ventura County area in the last quarter of the 19th century and the first decade of the 20th century. As the garden has matured, it is breath-takingly beautiful in the Spring and tends to bloom almost twelve months of the year. It is the one of the prime educational and community outreach functions of the Ventura County Rose Society.

This award also honors the dedicated volunteers who show up for maintenance and garden tasks on the last Saturday of every month but December.

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