2026 Webinars

The American Rose Society offers numerous educational opportunities including monthly webinars on a variety of topics. The American Rose Center Team, has put together an exciting line up with speakers from around the world. These webinars are provided free of charge for all American Rose Society members.

These webinars are provided free of charge for all.

For questions, please contact Garry Chin by email by clicking here or call (318) 532-4110 Ext. 104

Save the Date:

• August 16th, 2026, 2:00-5:00pm: Virtual Consulting Rosarian School

• SCHEDULE:

  2:00 PM – 2:15 PM

  • Welcome and Introductions: Jeannette Danehy

  2:15 PM – 2:45 PM

  • Mission and Ethics: Tom Cooney

  3:00 PM – 4:00 PM

  • Soil & Water: Laura Dickinson

  4:00 PM – 5:00 PM

  • Fertilizers: Bill Kozemchak

  Online certitfying exam will be distributed to qualified attendees following confirmation from the National CR Chair, Tom Cooney

• Register Here

• August 23rd, 2026, 2:00-5:00pm: Virtual Consulting Rosarian School

• SCHEDULE:

  • 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM

    • Pests and Disease: Baldo Villegas

    3:00 PM – 4:00 PM

    • Chemical Safety: Bruce Monroe

    4:00 PM – 4:30 PM

    • Q & A: Attending Rosarians

    4:30 PM – 5:00 PM

    • Closing Remarks: Lauren Gisel

  Online certitfying exam will be distributed to qualified attendees following confirmation from the National CR Chair, Tom Cooney

• Register Here

• September 11, 2026, 5:30-8:30pm: Making History of Roses!
• Join us as Ping Lim Director of Ornamental Plant Research, Altman Plants, Whose lifelong mission is to create stunning roses that can be grown by anyone, anywhere, without harmful chemicals. The intent behind True Bloom Roses is to combine the best traits of hybrid tea roses with disease-resistant shrub roses. The roses are bred to thrive in all climates for easy care and excellent disease resistance while maintaining the beauty of a traditional rose flower — bigger, continuously blooming flowers featuring multiple layers of petals and fragrance with the healthy, vigorous, compact growth habit of a plant that grows on its own roots.
• Discusses his journey Making History of Roses.
• CR Credit Approved
• Register Here

• September 26, 2026, 11:00am – 2:00pm: “The 2026 edition of New Horizon Roses by Suzanne Horn”
• Join us as Suzanne Horn’s program will feature a brief history of Horizon Roses and the people who have made it possible. It will also feature beautiful photos and selected reviews of many of the top new show roses of all types in the country along with sneak previews of many new highly anticipated introductions coming from some top hybridizers. The 2026 edition of New Horizon Roses has recently been released. A PDF version of the publication is available on the ARS Website for $9.99. It is also available on Amazon.com as either a PDF for Kindle at $9.99 or as a large, beautiful glossy 8 ½ x 11” book for about $34.95. You won’t want to buy any roses this Fall without consulting the findings of our trusty New Horizon Roses reporters. Join us for Suzanne’s beautiful program on what’s new and exciting in exhibition roses!
• CR CREDIT APPROVED
• Register Here

• October 10, 2026, 11:00am – 2:00pm: E.B. Stone Soil Health & Fertilization; Gardening Relieves Stress
• Located in Solano County, E.B. Stone is one of the nation’s oldest organic fertilizer producers. Founded in 1916 in San Jose, E.B. Stone the company was named for a local farmer, E.B. Stone. He created a fertilizer for his fruit trees that produced bigger and better crops. His fertilizers and amendments became so popular, he turned his attention to his self-named company full time, eventually moving to the Salinas Valley and broadening beyond fruit.
• When Stone retired in 1979, he sold the business to the Crandall family, who continue with the same dedication to organic gardening and farming. The business is now based in Suisun City, less than an hour from Sacramento, CA.

• Gardening all starts with the soil; healthier soil means healthier plants. Ross Noonan will explain and show how we can help nature work. He’ll offer rose-specific tips, too.
• CR CREDIT APPROVED
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• October 24th, 11:00am – 2:00pm: Honoring the Rose
• Join us as Ruth Tiffany present a program that honor the rose, our national flower.
• Ruth does, in fact, grow more than 800 roses on a small corner lot in east San Diego. She says: “Growing roses in three different gardens over nearly 30 years has taught me, and continues to teach me, of the amazing physical and mental health benefits of this life-sustaining hobby. I want to teach and show people that the beauty, joy, and healing power of roses can be stronger than the pain, anger, and division that exist so fully in our world today.” Details on the garden and her odyssey with roses are set forth in her article in the American Rose Annual 2019.
  Ruth has written numerous articles on growing roses for the San Diego Rose
• Society newsletter. She speaks regularly to the San Diego Rose Society and other societies in the Pacific Southwest District. She was a judge for the annual Rose Trials at the Rose Hills Test Garden in Whittier California for several years. In 2019, former President of the American Rose Society and hybridizer, Robert Martin, named and registered a shrub rose “Ruth Tiffany” from his many crosses of Julia Child/Ann Morrow Lindberg.
• CR CREDIT APPROVED
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• November 7, 2026, 11:00am – 2:00pm: My 60 years in Roses and Beyond
• Join us as Tom Carruth tells us about his time in the world of roses.
• Tom Carruth is one of the greats of modern rose breeding – the winner of 11 All-America Rose Selections (AARS) and creator of more than 150 cultivars.  When he finished up his graduate work in plant breeding, he was just in the right spot at the right time. Tom started working with Jackson and Perkins, which is a huge name in the US, and which was at its full monster size at that point, too.”
• After about three and a half years his breakthrough into breeding came with a job as a rose breeder at Armstrong Nurseries. That was in 1979. He was to breed roses for another 33 years – first at Armstrong and then for 25 years at another famous home, Weeks Roses.  Carruth left Weeks in 2012 to curate the Rose Collection at the Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California. But his roses have continued to be released.
• Does he miss the breeding? He says: “I miss seeing the babies, because that was always an exciting time – when they were starting to open and you never knew what they were going to be. Do I miss the corporate stuff? No. At the Huntington I’m out with plants every day in a garden setting. I’m learning new things from a horticultural point of view, and that’s always exciting.”

• CR CREDIT APPROVED

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• November 14, 2026, 11:00am – 2:00-pm: Roundtable Discussion Seasonal Care of Roses, Preparing for Winter, Winter and Transition for the Next Season
• Join us as Highly Acclaimed Master Rosarians Bill Kozemchak, Ken Borrmann, Paula Grabowski and Steve Jones discuss the Winter Seasonal Care of Roses from the beginning to the end of the season in a Roundtable Discussion from the perspective of the northern region of the United States.
• Their Roundtable Discussion will begin with the major activity for roses during the winter then guidance of activities preparing for moving into spring activities during Winter and ending with the transition preparing for the spring season.
• The Roundtable Discussion will include tips for making the Winter Seasonal Care of Roses a success! Their Roundtable Discussion will begin with the major activity for roses during this time and the winter, then guidance of activities preparing for moving into winter, activities during winter and ending with the transition preparing for the spring season.
• CR CREDIT APPROVED
• Register Here

• November 21, 2026, 11:00am – 2:00pm: Roundtable Discussion Seasonal Care of Roses, Preparing for Fall, Fall and Transition for the Next Season
• Join us as Highly Acclaimed Master Rosarians Dr. Satish Prabhu, Ray Guillebeau, Lou Pavlovich and Linda Clark discuss the Winter Seasonal Care of Roses from the beginning to the end of the season in a Roundtable Discussion from the perspective of the southern region of the United States.
• Their Roundtable Discussion will begin with the major activity for roses during the winter, then guidance of activities preparing for moving into spring, activities during winterand ending with the transition preparing for the spring season.
• The Roundtable Discussion will include tips for making the Winter Seasonal Care of Roses a success! Their Roundtable Discussion will begin with the major activity for roses during this time and the winter, then guidance of activities preparing for moving into winter, activities during winter and ending with the transition preparing for the spring season.
• CR CREDIT APPROVED
• Register Here

About the American Rose Society: The American Rose Society is a non-profit, educational organization founded in 1892 to promote the culture, preservation and ap- preciation of the rose and to improve its standard of excellence for all people through education and research. Its headquarters is located in Shreveport, Louisiana, at the American Rose Center, home of “America’s Rose Garden.”

About the American Rose Center: The American Rose Center was established in 1974 and serves as the national headquarters site for the American Rose Society. “America’s Rose Garden” is the largest public garden in the United States dedicated to roses.