CHICO — How to create a sustainable rose garden will be the topic at the next Butte Rose Society meeting, at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 28, at the Chico Veterans Memorial Hall, 554 Rio Lindo Ave., Chico.
The speaker is Baldo Villegas, of Orangevale, who retired as senior environmental research scientist with the California Department of Food and Agriculture after 34 years developing and implementing biological control programs against invasive insects and weed pests throughout California.
He is an accredited horticulture judge, consulting rosarian and master rosarian, and he has earned many awards.
He says he has about 3,000 roses of which about 60 percent are miniatures.
Guests are free, but an annual membership is only $25. The society’s website is www.butte-rosesociety.org.
For information, contact program director Jean Miller, 514-4857 or by email tjmsc51@yahoo.com.