Founded in the early 1970s, the Texas Rose Rustlers started off traveling the Texas countryside, looking for old roses in overgrown cemeteries and abandoned homesteads.
Nowadays, the group focuses on trading cuttings, as well as locating, identifying and preserving old garden roses that might otherwise die out.
On Tuesday, Becky Smith and Deanna Krause, of the Rustlers, will share some Texas rose growing wisdom at the monthly meeting of the New Orleans Old Garden Rose Society at John Calvin Presbyterian Church in Metairie.
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