2019 Rose Show & Day

We regret that the 2020 Rose Show & Rose Day have been CANCELED.

Saturday, June 1 & Sunday, June 2, 2019

our Annual Rose Show and Day

@ the Rose Garden's Garden Center (just west of the Shelter)
52nd Wornall, Kansas City, MO 64112

Our Supporters: Carolyn & Glenn Hodges / Betsy & Ed Holland, Sandy & Fausto Campuzan / Cynthia Gillis
Our Honoree ► Glenn Hodges

Rose Day -- Sunday, June 2, 2019
At the Laura Conyers Smith Municipal Rose Garden
52nd Wornall, Kansas City, MO 64112

Open to the public; everyone is welcome; family friendly!

Enjoy the day! Special Events -- 1:30p to 5p

Bring your blankets, chairs and picnics -
Juice Boxes and Bottle Water
Children's Art Experience*
Mighty MO, Jazz combo
Mayors Proclamation
KC Youth Ballet

Free Ice Cream provided by
Blue Bunny!

*Children's Art Experience -- an art activity for all ages from 1:30 –4:30 pm. Stop by their tables to create your own pen & watercolor painting inspired by roses.

Sponsored by the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Everyone is also invited to visit the Garden Center to view the hundreds of roses on display from our annual ROSE SHOW!

Rose Day is sponsored by The Rosebuds
- Young Friends of the Rose Society -

Vote on the “Most Fragrant Rose”

The public will be asked to vote on the “Most Fragrant Rose" entered in the show. Cast your vote between 1 and 3 pm in the Garden Center.

Plus, 2019 Children's Art Show - The Kansas City Rose Society invites your young artists to create a drawing or painting of a rose to be displayed during Rose Day!

Learn More!

Rose Show -- Saturday, June 1, 2019
Anyone can bring roses and enter the show!

All rose growers are invited to bring roses to the show between 8:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m.
You do NOT have to be a member of the KCRS to enter roses in the show.
There is NO entry fee
Novice Classes for any adult who has never won a blue ribbon in a rose show
Youth Classes for exhibitors under age 17. (The youth exhibitor must have been involved in growing the roses.)
Photography, 7 Classes for all ages

Blooms left over from the rose show will be donated to Unexpected Blooms, who will re-arrange them for donation to nursing homes, hospice centers, and others who need a bouquet to brighten their day. www.unexpectedblooms.org

Entering a Rose Show (PDFs)

Rose Photography (PDFs)

Arrangements (PDFs)