My rose society is looking for new classes that might interest more people to enter the rose show. Are there any suggestions?
Continuing the discussion from Rose Show Categories:
I would like to see more classes for the three types of shrub roses and polyanthas.
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Yes - more shows should provide various categories for Shrubs. The question is then how Best Shrub is chosen.
Many of the newer hybrid teas, breed for fragrance and disease resistance, typically do not produce the traditional hybrid tea exhibition form but rather a beautiful fuller bloom. Many rosarians would have roses to exhibition in a Decorative Hybrid Tea Class.
We have expanded our shrub classes and the Grandiflora classes. Hybrid Teas are on their own. So now the Grandifloras have single, fully open, and spray. More Polyantha classes too! I think that we need to have as many decorative classes as possible. All of our new members grow shrubs and decorative form roses. Our biggest problem is the challenge classes. We get very few entries.
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I am interested in your variety of Polyantha classes. We only have one - are they challenge classes?
At my rose society’s Rose Show we have Polyantha Spray in the Amateur Section.
A suggestion to entice more people to enter a Rose Show, my society has a Section for Novice/Public entries…
All entrants to this class are awarded a one-time years membership to our society. Ribbons are awarded to all First Class Winners in this Section.
The Best Novice/Public Entry receives a certificate from the society, a one year membership to our society and to the American Rose Society.
These are great ideas to promote exhibiting, your local society and The American Rose Society! Thank you for sharing
You are welcome!
Those are the main things for me.
Garry