Programs, Educational Lectures, Instructional Workshops

We enjoy spreading the word on how to grow great roses and are available to present programs for your groups or organization, no matter how large or small.

Choose from one of our entertaining and educational programs listed below. If you can’t find exactly what you’re looking for, we can build a custom program just for you.

Sustainable Roses for New England
Roses for New England: A Guide to Sustainable Rose Gardening
Rosology 101
Planting and Pruning
Bullet Proof Roses
The Secret to Selecting Garden Roses
A Virtual Visit to Great Public Gardens of the Northeast
Beyond the Basics

Sustainable Roses for New England

Sustainable roses are winter hardy varieties that possess above-average disease resistance and require little or no chemical pesticides to remain healthy and attractive. Sustainability has become a primary hybridizing objective with all major rose growers who are introducing eye catching, resilient, free blooming roses each season. This lecture and PowerPoint presentation identifies sustainable varieties in many colors and growth habits that can be implemented into any home garden.

Roses for New England:
A Guide to Sustainable Rose Gardening

Roses for New England is a special lecture and PowerPoint presentation based on Mike and Angelina Chute’s new book, Roses for New England: A Guide to Sustainable Rose Gardening (Forbes River Publishing). If you are a rose-lover who yearns to learn how to grow hardy, healthy, and disease resistant roses in your home garden, this program is for you. It specifically addresses the merits and challenges of rose gardening in New England. Novice rose gardeners will find everything they need to know to successfully grow roses and experienced gardeners will utilize this program as a ready reference to enable them to grow better roses.
Books will be available for signing at the end of the program.

Rosology 101: The Six Basic Steps to Growing
Great Roses

It’s easy to grow beautiful roses in your home garden once you know how. Rosology 101 explains everything you need to know including six easy-to-follow steps that take the mystery out of rose gardening. Included are plenty of tips from a master rosarian that demonstrate how easy it is to grow great roses

Planting and Pruning

This in-depth program focuses on planting and pruning, two of the frequently misunderstood aspects of rose horticulture. It provides an easy to understand, step by step approach on the right way to plant roses in New England and the proper pruning techniques for different rose classes.

Bullet Proof Roses

Bulletproof roses are sustainable varieties that remain healthy and attractive without the use of chemical pesticides. This program identifies recent introductions as well as classic old favorites that are hardy, disease resistant and known to thrive in southern New England.

The Secret to Selecting Garden Roses

Learn the important first step in planting a rose garden from a Master Rosarian. This PowerPoint presentation explains the different grades and types of roses and how to choose the best varieties for New England gardens. The program includes a list of hardy, sustainable roses as well as loads of rose gardening tips that shows how easy it is to grow healthy and attractive roses.

A Virtual Visit to Great Public Gardens in the Northeast

We start our PowerPoint journey in Rhode Island at the Victorian Rose Garden in Roger Williams Park and then continue on to the new Chet Clayton Sustainable Rose Garden in the University of Rhode Island Botanical Gardens. Next we travel west to Hartford, CT to America’s oldest public rose garden in Elizabeth Park. We then turn north and finish at the magnificent “La Rosaraie,” a European-style rose garden in the Montreal Botanical Garden. We will suggest varieties in these great gardens that will thrive in your garden plus inside tips on how these large public rose gardens are designed and managed.

Beyond the Basics

This comprehensive seminar goes beyond basic rose gardening and explores both the science and the art of growing healthy, robust roses. It concentrates on rose horticulture including the importance of soil, water and nutrients. Learn advance methods of insect and disease control, guidelines for plant selection, pruning to build plants and increase blooms, proper planting practices for southern New England gardens, plus loads of rose gardening tips. (Three hour seminar)

All programs include time for questions and answers.

Contact us for more information and speaking fees.