Topics and Speakers

Convention Program

Join us in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada from June 18 to 24, 2009 for the World Rose Convention, featuring daily lectures, city and private/public garden tours, a rose show as part of our public Rose Festival and social events. Here are just a few of the great speakers and topics already on the convention program in alphabetical order:
Speaker Topic
Peter Beales, Owner and Breeder, Peter Beales Roses, Norwich, England “Classic roses in the garden landscape”
Deborah Benge Frost, Texas A & M University and Gaye Hammond, Houston Rose Society and Earth Kind Team Member, USA “Earth Kind roses project”
Gian Paolo Bonani, Rose Garden Designer, Calvi dell’Umbria (60 km north of Rome), Italy “The philosophy and architecture of garden, Vacunae Rosae, with its thousands of cultivated varieties”
Peter D.A. Boyd, Shrewsbury, England “The international heritage of scots roses”
Helga Brichet, Perugia, Italy "Roses on the Move," tracing how and where roses traveled from earliest times to the present
Alec Globe, Professor, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada “The history of roses in Canada”
Sheenagh Harris, Sandton, South Africa “Royal Roses”
Brad Jalbert, Owner and Breeder, Select Roses, Vancouver, Canada “Topic to be confirmed”
Steve Jones, President, American Rose Society, California, USA “Polyantha and shrub roses & growing chemical free”
Eva Kigyóssy-Schmidt, Berlin, Germany “Hungarian roses hybridized by Gergely Mark”
Claire Laberge, Horticulturist, Montreal Botanical Garden, Montreal, Canada “Species roses in the landscape as used in the Montreal Botanical Garden with an introduction to MBG's 12-year-old IPM program”
Yuki Mikanagi, Natural History Museum & Institute, Chiba and Katsuhiko Maebara, Director, Sakura Kusabue-no-Oka Rose Garden, Chiba, Japan “The rose collection in the historical time-line Sakura Rose Garden and the design and management of the garden”
Maurice Parkinson, recently retired Director of Parks for Belfast City Council, Belfast, Ireland “He and wife, Joy’s, 16 acre Ballyrobert Cottage Garden and Nursery”
Lakshmi Sridharan, Botanist and Molecular Biologist, California, USA “Healthy soil - healthy roses”
Felicitas Svedja, retired (1961-1987) Rose Breeder for Agriculture Canada, Ottawa, Canada “Sub zero & explorer roses hybridized”
Torben Thim, Nursery Owner and Rosarian, Denmark “Topic to be confirmed”

 

 

Did you know…?

Imagine - A rose with your name on it.

Enter a draw to name a rose by registering and paying for the Rose Convention and booking your accommodation at the Westin Bayshore Hotel by September 15, 2008. The "Name a Rose" contest is sponsored by breeder Brad Jalbert of Select Roses.


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Last updated: February 12, 2008

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