Due to the weather conditions, our in-person meeting at Bethesda Senior Center on January 17th was cancelled and we hosted a Zoom Meeting for our members. Bet Sobon, a Native New Yorker who moved to Georgia twenty years ago and began growing roses. Bet shared very detailed knowledge about growing roses in Georgia and covered types, fertilizers, diseases – just all aspects of rose growing.
She now grows over 150 roses and has almost all types of roses. Bet is currently President of the Greater Gwinnett Rose Society which is affiliated with The American Rose Society through which she is a certified Consulting Rosarian.