Rose club hosts demo, auction

The Ventura County Rose Society and the Gold Coast heritage Rose Group will co-sponsor the eighth annual Pruning Old Garden Roses Demonstration at 8 a.m. Sat., Jan. 10 at The Stagecoach Inn Museum Rose Garden, 51 S. Ventu Park Road, Newbury Park.

The demo is free and the public is invited.

Jeri and Clay Jennings, Ingrid Wapelhorst and Jim Delahanty will demonstration how to prune tea roses, noisettes, climbing roses, hybrids, China, polyantha and other types of roses.

An auction of 100 rare and hard to find roses will take place after the demo at 11 a.m.

Naming rights to a new hybrid musk rose will be auctioned off as well. Bidding will begin at $250.

Refreshments will be provided.

The rain date is Jan. 17. For more information, call Kathy Ayers at (805) 498-0861.