Happy Holidays to you and your loved ones

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Regardless of what or how you celebrate the season, we wish you joy, love, and peace.

The dried ramblers (Inconnue #1 and others) gave our Christmas tree pizzazz.

We are full from the morning festivities and have been enjoying calls from friends and family. One of my sons received a stationary bike and has already ridden through Yellowstone. Ambitious. I’ll need the same if I eat anymore of these cookies.

Here in the Pacific Northwest the weather has been more spring like which has confused some of the roses, rhododendrons, and cherry trees. On a brighter note, this has allowed me to continue the fall clean-up. I have never been successful at completing any seasonal work but I may finally come close. 

The seeds have been gathered, processed, and put in the cooler for next year’s gardens. The rose cuttings have become new plants and are enjoying the greenhouse nursery. I’m becoming much better at propagation, although Rick is still the expert in our family. 

We will host a propagation workshop in coordination with Heritage Roses Northwest, one of several events in store for 2024. It will be a very busy year as we celebrate Anne’s legacy and her 100th birth year. The main focus is getting her roses, especially the rare and imported ones, into people’s backyards. I have a friend in Indiana who will help (I could always use more) and I am reaching out to some of the rose groups in Michigan to see what the interest is there. We are still working with Claude on the American Rose Garden and others as well.

If you are in the Stanwood area and interested in volunteering in this effort, please let me know. Being a party of one, although I am an enthusiastic party, limits what can be done. 

Have a safe and wonderful week!

With much love,

Teddie and Rick

Published by teddiemower

I oversee Anne's Gardens for my mother-in-law, Anne Belovich. This is a family project to ensure Anne's rose collections, gardens and legacy continue for generations to come. I am a science and environmental educator, researcher, teacher, author, creator of homemades, and traveler. My husband Rick Mower, Anne's only son, is a retired professor of microbiology, former sailor, avid food gardener, and great cook.

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  1. Hi Teddie,
    I am so excited to find your blog with the help of a shared friend from Bloomington, IN. The rambler project, saving Anne’s roses, is an important venture. It is exciting to learn that you have connections in Indiana. When you are ‘back home in Indiana’, I wonder if you might be available to speak to our Indianapolis Rose Society about the rambler preservation project? Many of our members are aware of Claude Graves’s activities with Anne’s Roses and the ARS.

    I hope your holidays are safe and happy!
    🌹Linda Kimmel
    317-902-6016 (call or text)

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    1. How wonderful!!! A fellow Hoosier! I would love to meet with you about Anne’s roses – ramblers and others. I’ll be “back home in Indiana” in February for the science teachers conference in Indianapolis and farm work, but I go back often so we should be able to work something out. I’m looking forward to meeting you and other Indiana rosarians.

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      1. Hi Teddie,
        I hope your 2024 New Year is off to a great start. Thank you for the nice email response!

        We need a speaker/program for the May meeting.
        We meet on the second Tuesday of the month (May 14). We start at 6:30 pm with refreshments and socialization, brief announcements at 7 pm, and a program immediately following (7:15 pm). If you have a PowerPoint program, we have a digital projector, screen, and laptop. All that is needed is a thumb drive, and you are good to go. We meet at Sullivan Munce Cultural Center, Zionsville, IN. If you are available on this date, we would like to invite you to dinner before the meeting with our board members.

        If you are not available for an in-person meeting in May, we have Zoom capabilities if needed.

        Another option: We host a Rosefest event, on Saturday, June 8th. Includes a rose show or rose display, speakers, demonstrations, door prizes, and a few vendors. That might be an option for you to provide a program. Our last Rosefest drew around 150 people. It is held at the 4H Fairgrounds, Noblesville, IN.

        If none of these options are viable with your schedule, please let me know when you will be in town, and we will try to accommodate you.

        Last but not least, I need to inquire concerning any compensation required, such as travel fees, speaker fees, etc.

        We are so excited to find you and hope to meet you soon! We are excited to hear more about Anne’s roses.

        If this is a duplicate email. Please ignore my ignorance using WordPress.

        Thank you!!!
        Linda Kimmel
        317-902-6016
        Linda.kimmel@gmail.com

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