Uruguay
Asociación Uruguaya de la Rosa (Uruguayan Rose Association)
Email: capricho9@hotmail.comhttp://www.asociacionuruguayadelarosa.com
President - Mrs. Pilar de Arteaga de Pererira
The Uruguayan Rose Society was founded in Montevideo in 1983 by an enthusiastic group of Garden Club members who were particularly interested in roses and wished to intensify their knowledge and culture in our country. There are now three Affiliate Societies, one in Punta del Este, Maldonado in the East, one in Tarariras, Colonia in the West and a newly created one in Dolores, Soriano also in the West of the country. A fourth Affiliate society will be established shortly in Tacuarembo in the North.
As detailed on our website, our Society has the following program of activites:
- Monthly members' meetings with select lecturers from local, regional and foreign societies and rose growers
- Annual Spring Rose Show
- Pruning workshops
- Visits to private gardens
- Annual outings in Uruguay and neighbouring countries
- Organized group visits to World Rose events
- Rose market sales
- Circulating rose library
- Email rose enquiries
- Welcome gift for new members
Our Annual Report and Bulletin, both in Spanish and English, is handed out to all members free of charge, and is sent to all WFRS member countries, affiliates and to Rose friends around the world. Our association in turn receives publications from other WFRS member countries and often regrets that such interesting and useful foreign information has not been translated into English, the official WFRS language.
Membership: We have three categories: Active members, Camp members and Family members
| Fees: | Active Members | $75 US |
| Camp Members | $30 US | |
| Family Members | $100 US |
When the Roses Bloom
| Area & First Bloom Date | Main Bloom Date |
| The first roses to bloom are the banksiae lutea and albas | September |
| Main flush of bloom | October - November |
| Once-flowering Climbers | November |
| Re-flowering continues until late Autumn | December - May |
Calendar of Rose Events - 2012
| C-convention F-festival L-lecture M-meeting R-rose show S-seminar T-trials |
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| April 17 | Rivera 6389 | Visit | Uruguayan Rose Society | Welcome & visit to member's garden |
| May 15 | Lawn Tennis Club | L | Uruguayan Rose Society | “Space and Landscape" – Horacio Wilder Larrea |
| June 19 | Lawn Tennis Club | L | Uruguayan Rose Society | “Roses for Different Spots” – Jean Pierre Hounie |
| July 17 | Lawn Tennis Club | L | Uruguayan Rose Society | “Succeeding with Roses" – Rosario Carau |
| August 21 | Lawn Tennis Club | L | Uruguayan Rose Society | “Floribundas & Polyanthas" – Sylvia Cibils |
| September 18 | Lawn Tennis Club | L | Uruguayan Rose Society | “Artistic Displays with Roses" – Rosmarie Chilibroste |
| October 16 | Paso de la Cruz 352 | M | Uruguayan Rose Society | “Exhibiting Roses" – Pillar Pereira & Michael berger |
| October 31 | Members' gardens | Contest | Uruguayan Rose Society | Rose gardens contest |
| November 6 | Hotel Cottage | R | Uruguayan Rose Society | 29thSpring Rose Show |
| November 13 | Melilla | Visit | Uruguayan Rose Society | Outing |
| December 4 | Lawn Tennis Club | M | Uruguayan Rose Society | Annual General Meeting |