For Immediate Release
Monday, April 14, 2008

What:    Mobile Rose Society’s 53rd Annual Rose Show
Where:  Bellingrath Gardens & Home
            12401 Bellingrath Gardens Road; Theodore, AL 36582
When:   Saturday, April 19 & Sunday, April 20
Times:  Bellingrath’s Daily Hours of Operation: 8AM to 5 PM
            Saturday - Rose Registration: 6AM to 9AM
                                    Judging: 10AM to 1PM
                                    Open to the Public: 1PM to 5PM
            Sunday – Open to the Public: 11AM to 3PM

Admission to the Gardens:  Adults $10, Children 5 to 12 $5.50 and Children 4 and under are free
Wake up and smell the roses with the Mobile Rose Society and Bellingrath Gardens and Home!  On April 19 and 20, the Mobile Rose Society will host the 53rd Annual Rose Show.  Bring your best rose blooms and enter them in the Rose Show.  Enjoy the award-winning blooms and arrangements on display.  Learn how to grow and care for roses from area experts.  Rose plants, supplies, books and gifts will be on sale in the Bellingrath Gift Shop.

After the show, tour the Bellingrath Rose Garden, named as the Most Outstanding Rose Garden in the United States.  Featuring over 75 varieties of 2,000 roses, the Bellingrath Rose Garden hosts colorful blooms from April through late fall. 

The Mobile Rose Society meets every month on the third Wednesday at 7 p.m. at the West Mobile Regional Library on Grelot Road.  New members and guests are always welcome.  The Mobile Rose Society was founded shortly after World War II by Lou Costa, former Garden Editor for the Mobile Register, and is associated with the American Rose Society and the Royal National Rose Society.  Walter Bellingrath was one of its founding members.  Mr. Bellingrath's interest in roses was well known and is exemplified by the Rose Garden that bears the design of the Mobile Rotary pin, of which he was a founding member.

For more information contact Bellingrath Gardens & Home at 251.973.2217 or www.bellingrath.org.

Leslie C. Schraeder
Director of Marketing & Public Relations
Bellingrath Gardens and Home
P: 251.973.2217 X 137
C: 251.689.5444
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1240 Bellingrath Gardens Road ◦ Theodore, Alabama 36582
(251) 973-2217 ◦ Fax (251 973-0540 ◦ www.bellingrath.org
Owned and operated by The Bellingrath-Morse Foundation, a charitable, not-for-profit organization