Mesa East Valley Rose Society is the right place if you love roses
The Mesa East Valley Rose Society (MEVRS) is Arizona’s largest, and oldest, rose society. Its membership is primarily located in the East Valley, and exists to help increase the community’s understanding of how to care for roses in the lower desert region.
The Society meetings are structured to teach people how to grow bigger, and healthier, roses. It also seeks to inform people of the history, hybridization, growing, and exhibiting of roses.
The Mesa Community College Rose Garden is the major project supported by MEVRS each year. It promotes programs, and stresses the value, of the rose garden as a living laboratory and place of beauty for the community.
The MCC Rose Garden is one of 26 All-America Rose Selections (AARS) Test Gardens in the United States. The garden exhibits more than 9,000 roses, which are tended by MEVRS members and volunteer “deadheaders”.
Yes, they have a mission; but, they’re mostly about talking with, and laughing with, other people who really love roses.
66th Annual Rose Show on November 16
The Mesa East Valley Rose Society hosts an annual rose show at Mesa Community College. This year’s event will occur on Saturday, November 16 and will be open to the public.
The oldest rose show in Arizona boasts some of the best exhibitors the state can offer – and often includes rosarians from California. The exhibits featuring horticulture, arrangement, and photography classes are open to the public from 1:00 to 4:00 pm.
You are invited to hope join us either as an exhibitor or as a lover of roses. Either way, please stop by and take a peek at the excellent examples of America’s floral emblem – the rose.
Society meets on the second Thursday of the month at 6:15 pm
Mesa Community College Library (Room 145)
1833 W. Southern Ave, Mesa AZ 85202
2024-2025 MEVRS
Officers and Board Members
President
V.P. Programs
Treasurer
Membership
Recording Secretary
Corresponding Secretary
Past President
Members at Large
Sherman Weekes
LeRoy Brady
Bud Morrison
Carol Holkenbrink
Yvonne Morrison
Kathleen Umlauf
Mary Lou Coffman
Joseph Arias
Maggie Holloway
Pat Thiel
Carla Roberts
James Rosebough
