SCV Rose Society Spring Garden Tour
DATE: Sunday, April 26, 2015 – TIME: 12:00 Noon to 3:00 p.m.
Garden of Susan & Charles Maness
28316 Contessa Avenue, Saugus, CA 91350
(661) 296-5728, E-mail: [email protected]
Free of Charge • Bring Your Friends & Family
Our private garden will be open to the public on this day only (free-of-charge), so bring your friends and family
for an enjoyable visit. Light refreshments will be served. Please be sure to wear comfortable walking shoes and a
sun hat. Cameras are welcome. See you there!
Directions: Go north on Bouquet Canyon Road, turn left onto Benz, left at Canterwood, left onto Contessa. (Your route
will depend on your origin, so we recommend you use your GPS or Googlemaps.)
Charles and Susan Maness have grown roses at their current home for more than 35 years. The original bed of 18
hybrid teas has grown to about 200 roses of all types and has spread to all parts of the landscape. Hybrid teas still
dominate and include old favorites Bewitched, Great Scott and Perfume Delight as well as newer varieties Black
Magic, Gemini, Hollywood Star, Let Freedom Ring, Marilyn Monroe, and St. Patrick. Floribundas include
dependable Easy Going, French Lace, Julia Child, Living Easy, Playboy, Preference and Shockwave. Distant Drums
and Sally Holmes are favorite shrub roses joining Austin shrubs Kathryn Morley, Tamora, and The Squire; some
of these are grown as climbers. The best of the old garden roses are Louise Odier, Mrs. R G Sharman-Crawford,
Rose de Rescht and Yolande d’Aragon. Climbing roses growing on arbors, metal structures and fences include
Altissimo, Berries ‘n’ Cream, Candy Land, Fourth of July, Night Owl, Polka, Purple Splash, Sombreuil and Stormy
Weather. This friendly rose garden invites you to enjoy a leisurely stroll and to take the time to smell the roses.
ALL PHOTOS BY KITTY BELENDEZ
April 2015
Rose Ecstasy
Santa Clarita Valley Rose Society
Volume 24
Number 4
Page 7