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| Rose Contemplation in January [message #10619] |
Tue, 27 January 2009 19:31  |
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 Black Bear
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Roses and more roses can be found here.
"The time is always right to do what's right."--MLK Jr.
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| Re: Rose Contemplation in January [message #10620 is a reply to message #10619 ] |
Tue, 27 January 2009 19:33  |
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Julia
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And speaking of Peter, he had this to say about my difficult Damarian translation decisions yesterday: ‘In the Damarian antipodes (maybe), the locals ride knagafoos, commonly known as foos. They move at various paces, the foogallop, the foocanter, and, of courser, the footrot. So you may need it one day.’
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Bwhaha. Brilliant. Heehee……
Oh, and: " Yaay roses!" 
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| Re: Rose Contemplation in January [message #10626 is a reply to message #10619 ] |
Tue, 27 January 2009 20:05 |
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Yay rant!
I got nothin' else. (Mostly no brain.)
Fire bad. Tree Rose pretty.
[Updated on: Tue, 27 January 2009 20:05]
Smooshes!
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| Re: Rose Contemplation in January [message #10643 is a reply to message #10619 ] |
Tue, 27 January 2009 22:47 |
kfoster2047
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Another author with roses - over a hundred but a much larger garden here. She also writes a blog but it's mainly about writing (as opposed to hellhounds and bell-ringing).
Karen
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| Re: Rose Contemplation in January [message #10645 is a reply to message #10620 ] |
Tue, 27 January 2009 23:45 |
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hedgehog
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And speaking of Peter, he had this to say about my difficult Damarian translation decisions yesterday: ‘In the Damarian antipodes (maybe), the locals ride knagafoos, commonly known as foos. They move at various paces, the foogallop, the foocanter, and, of courser, the footrot. So you may need it one day.’
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Beware, for it is well known that Foo Tropes provide slippery footing at best, and in such cold weather as we are having now, they are most treacherous -- even as literary devices!
[running, ducking, hiding]
... comparative Safety on Shipboard / is enjoyed by the Hedgehog alone ...
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| Re: Rose Contemplation in January [message #10655 is a reply to message #10644 ] |
Wed, 28 January 2009 01:31 |
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Diane in MN
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| Kathy_S wrote on Tue, 27 January 2009 22:44 |
The roses sound so fabulous! But then I sigh and remember that my sole survivor bit the dust last summer, between the black spot and cankers and Japanese beetles. I need roses that will bloom deliriously without constant intervention. No chemicals except against poison ivy, that's my rule. (That concession was necessary, as I seem to react if I'm anywhere within ten feet of the stuff.) Do such paragons of roses exist?
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Have you looked into the hardy shrub roses? They are pest- and disease-resistant, and did very well for me (and I'm an organic gardener, except for poison ivy and a few other noxious weeds) before being shaded out. The Canadian Explorer series roses are very well spoken of, but I don't know if they'd like a colder climate than yours.
"The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough . . . " Louise Erdrich
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| Re: Rose Contemplation in January [message #10666 is a reply to message #10644 ] |
Wed, 28 January 2009 09:38 |
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Black Bear
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| Kathy_S wrote on Tue, 27 January 2009 23:44 |
The roses sound so fabulous! But then I sigh and remember that my sole survivor bit the dust last summer, between the black spot and cankers and Japanese beetles. I need roses that will bloom deliriously without constant intervention. No chemicals except against poison ivy, that's my rule. (That concession was necessary, as I seem to react if I'm anywhere within ten feet of the stuff.) Do such paragons of roses exist?
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The only rose I know from a hole in the wall is Knockout, and that's because my first task as a zoo gardener was to plant dozens of them along the entry drive of the Indy zoo. It's a tough cookie, that's not a friendly spot (car exhaust, salt from the roads) and they weren't given a lot of attention other than watering and occasional deadheading when we had volunteers to spare. They've grown into a substantial hedge in 5 years, so they must like Indiana weather OK....
I'm with you on poison ivy. Nuke that stuff from orbit.
And yes, Diane, snow beats ice any day and twice on Sunday.
"The time is always right to do what's right."--MLK Jr.
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| Re: Rose Contemplation in January [message #10669 is a reply to message #10619 ] |
Wed, 28 January 2009 10:07 |
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Mrs Redboots
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| Robin quotes Peter as saying: |
‘In the Damarian antipodes (maybe), the locals ride knagafoos, commonly known as foos. They move at various paces, the foogallop, the foocanter, and, of courser, the footrot. So you may need it one day.’
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That is utterly brilliant. Peter at his best. But, alas, we know that in Damar they ride the most utterly gorgeous horses that ever were.....
Mrs Redboots
I love my computer because my friends live in it!
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| Re: Rose Contemplation in January [message #10672 is a reply to message #10666 ] |
Wed, 28 January 2009 10:29 |
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shalea
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| Black Bear wrote on Wed, 28 January 2009 09:38 |
The only rose I know from a hole in the wall is Knockout, and that's because my first task as a zoo gardener was to plant dozens of them along the entry drive of the Indy zoo. It's a tough cookie, that's not a friendly spot (car exhaust, salt from the roads) and they weren't given a lot of attention other than watering and occasional deadheading when we had volunteers to spare. They've grown into a substantial hedge in 5 years, so they must like Indiana weather OK....
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Oooo, those were your doing? They're very pretty!
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I'm with you on poison ivy. Nuke that stuff from orbit.
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I did try non-chemical means to remove a patch of poison ivy back when I wasn't allergic, but as that ended Very Badly, my husband's one outdoor task has become killing the nasty stuff and it's the one thing for which we actually use poison.
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| Re: Rose Contemplation in January [message #10686 is a reply to message #10619 ] |
Wed, 28 January 2009 17:27 |
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Susan from Athens
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‘In the Damarian antipodes (maybe), the locals ride knagafoos, commonly known as foos. They move at various paces, the foogallop, the foocanter, and, of courser, the footrot. So you may need it one day.’
So would foo-dies be those who ride around ever vigilant about what others eat, possibly battling the fad-ies and the fatt-ies? And would those who are angry be foo-rious; those that are particularly recalcitrant beasts en-foo-riating; and those given to practical jokes known to be foo-ling around?
***ducks and flees***
“I have always imagined heaven to be a kind of library.” –Jorge Luis Borges
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| Re: Rose Contemplation in January [message #10691 is a reply to message #10619 ] |
Wed, 28 January 2009 18:38 |
kolokolchiki
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Robin hath written ---
I get cold really easily.** Except, of course, when I get too hot. I frequently don’t like July either.----
Me, too! When I moved to Michigan (from Long Island, via Scranton, PA, Washington, DC, and Moscow, Russia), I was mentally prepared for cold winters. One can always put on more clothes and get closer to the fire place, after all. I was not prepared for rather hot, excruciatingly humid summers. One can only strip down so far, you know?
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| Re: Rose Contemplation in January [message #10706 is a reply to message #10691 ] |
Wed, 28 January 2009 20:44 |
kfoster2047
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Right there with you! I love gardening in the spring - and then it gets hot and I start hiding inside my comfy air-conditioned house (with my back turned to the garden where the few plants that are still alive are looking longingly into my windows.)
Karen
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| Re: Rose Contemplation in January [message #10760 is a reply to message #10730 ] |
Fri, 30 January 2009 09:08 |
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There are several rugosas that do not get huge. But I repeat ASK A LOCAL NURSERY for advice.
I'm flashing back to my time working at a local garden centre. It was always a couple, starry-eyed with buying their first house and planting plants, who had clearly gone straight to the rose section and picked the most vigorous-looking rose there (also, two pyramid cedars and a spirea). Naturally, said rose was a rugosa, so I always asked them, guardedly, "Oh, did anyone help you in the yard today?" If they said yes, I left it at that, and if they said no, I added, "rugosas are lovely, aren't they? So perfect as a hedging plant, they get so big and thorny..."
I knew they were planning a rose for that little 4-foot oval bed smack dab in the middle of their front yard - they needed to be warned it would take over their entire lawn!
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| Re: Rose Contemplation in January [message #10774 is a reply to message #10619 ] |
Fri, 30 January 2009 19:58 |
skating librarian
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http://northcreekfarm.org/
This is a great source for Rugosa roses if you live in the Northeast U.S. or the Maritimes. Suzanne literally wrote the book on rugosas, and she had short ones and gives descriptions which include here experience growing them in Phippsburg, Maine.
Phippsburg is just a few miles up the coast from Brunswick (one of Robin's old haunts) and North Creek Farm makes a great outing for gardeners. It's not huge, but cozy, with a dog, cat, and chickens and a garden an ordinary person could aspire to. Of course she does mail order too, and has plenty of short rugosas.
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