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Treasure Trove [message #17427] Tue, 23 June 2009 18:39 Go to next message
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Here be a Treasure Trove !


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Re: Treasure Trove [message #17435 is a reply to message #17427 ] Tue, 23 June 2009 18:50 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Hmmmmm I wonder if Kiftsgate or Treasure Trove would like an 80 ft tree......


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Yes! Next silly question! :) So would Paul's Himalayan Musk or Bobbie James!
Re: Treasure Trove [message #17441 is a reply to message #17439 ] Tue, 23 June 2009 18:56 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Robin wrote on Tue, 23 June 2009 18:54

Yes! Next silly question! Smile So would Paul's Himalayan Musk or Bobbie James!


But I only have ONE of the trees in the garden .... *g* hmmmmmm *contemplates the paddocks*


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Re: Treasure Trove [message #17442 is a reply to message #17427 ] Tue, 23 June 2009 19:24 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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... Wow. Just WOW. That is one spectacular rose.
Re: Treasure Trove [message #17446 is a reply to message #17427 ] Tue, 23 June 2009 19:49 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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What a delight this post is for both the eye and the ear. Is this gorgeous plant a delight to the nose as well?
Re: Treasure Trove [message #17447 is a reply to message #17427 ] Tue, 23 June 2009 19:53 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Goodness, but those are beautiful!


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Re: Treasure Trove [message #17448 is a reply to message #17427 ] Tue, 23 June 2009 20:18 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Oh, gorgeous!


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Re: Treasure Trove [message #17456 is a reply to message #17427 ] Wed, 24 June 2009 00:26 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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These (Kiftsgate and Treasure Trove) are both lovely roses. It's interesting that Kiftsgate is a single. I have a weakness for single roses.

“Grow, you bastard,” I said, a charm I learnt from my saintly mother.

I LIKE this charm: short, powerful, and to the point. I shall go and repeat it to several plants around my house.



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Re: Treasure Trove [message #17461 is a reply to message #17427 ] Wed, 24 June 2009 07:00 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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What a stupendous rose. And it looks incredibly healthy as well as beautiful.


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Every time you hoick out another bucketful from your garden—I do this too—you should take them out to the woods somewhere salubrious, and plant the suckers. But I guarantee that would be the day that the Plant Police were patrolling in that area and you’d get arrested for stealing them.

Tricky, I quite agree. Might be worth contacting your local BTCV people? I'm sure they'd be delighted to take them from you and use one of the volunteer groups to get them planted somewhere appropriate.


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Diane in MN wrote on Wed, 24 June 2009 05:26

These (Kiftsgate and Treasure Trove) are both lovely roses. It's interesting that Kiftsgate is a single. I have a weakness for single roses.

“Grow, you bastard,” I said, a charm I learnt from my saintly mother.

I LIKE this charm: short, powerful, and to the point. I shall go and repeat it to several plants around my house.

Ditto. Smile


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Re: Treasure Trove [message #17464 is a reply to message #17456 ] Wed, 24 June 2009 08:51 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Diane in MN wrote on Wed, 24 June 2009 05:26


“Grow, you bastard,” I said, a charm I learnt from my saintly mother.

I LIKE this charm: short, powerful, and to the point. I shall go and repeat it to several plants around my house.



Hmmn. I shall try it on the beans (broad, runner, borlotto and French) which are lagging and being recalcitrant. I did stomp around last night saying 'Come on, Beans!'over and over. Obviously I must be less polite. The tomatoes, however, have put on 6 inches (yes, really) since Monday. I fear they have a triffid gene.

As for the roses, I can see my 2nd season Paul's Himalayan Musk from my desk as I type, swaying gently pink over the old plum stump. Rambling Rector is just coming out in the acacia tree, eclipsing the acacia blossom and catching unwary cars in its tendrils, which keep falling down. That's a triffid too. I lost Kiftsgate a year ago--a huge one--which just died on me. I think I shall plant the next one under the hazel clump and hope.


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Re: Treasure Trove [message #17465 is a reply to message #17461 ] Wed, 24 June 2009 08:51 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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AJLR wrote on Wed, 24 June 2009 06:00


Tricky, I quite agree. Might be worth contacting your local BTCV people? I'm sure they'd be delighted to take them from you and use one of the volunteer groups to get them planted somewhere appropriate.


I was just thinking sort of the same thing. What is suspicious behavior for an un-supported individual can become perfectly innocuous civic behavior when performed by a group.

Abigail
Re: Treasure Trove [message #17469 is a reply to message #17427 ] Wed, 24 June 2009 14:21 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Zowie. Lovely rose. I wonder if my front ash tree is big and strong enough to withstand being overtaken by one...hmm...

I might also need to check how she does in MO's climate...which is strange and off-kilter, at least this year. Last week, it was lovely, warm in the day and and cool in the evening, then in a radical about face, the temps zoomed up to the 90s and low 100s, with insane humidity (equaling heat indices in the triple digits for the last three days). Hurtling hellhounds in 80-degrees-and-high-humidity weather (at 6:30am mind you!) is NOT FUN for any involved! Cece gave me a "you're joking, right?" look when we got to the hill...

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Re: Treasure Trove [message #17477 is a reply to message #17441 ] Wed, 24 June 2009 19:29 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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*Fenced* paddocks? They grow SIDEWAYS too, really well. And you'd never have to worry about escapees again! :)
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She has a faint smell. It's a good smell, but there's not a lot of it.
Re: Treasure Trove [message #17479 is a reply to message #17456 ] Wed, 24 June 2009 19:31 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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SEE? YOU NEED TO GROW ROSES. THERE ARE SOME VERY NICE SINGLE RUGOSAS, FOR EXAMPLE, RUGOSAS BEING MORE OR LESS UNKILLABLE. SCABROSA, FOR EXAMPLE, DESPITE THE UNFORTUNATE NAME, IS NOT ONLY HOT PINK BUT HAS A TERRIFIC SMELL. JUST FOR EXAMPLE.
Re: Treasure Trove [message #17480 is a reply to message #17461 ] Wed, 24 June 2009 19:33 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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They really aren't going to care about small erratic buckets of bluebells, are they? It's not like we got the entire town organised all to do their bluebell-garden-eradication at the same time.
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I have Bobbie James and Climbing Cecile Brunner, which is a monster despite her dainty bush incarnation, at Third House, and am wondering if I could squeeze another one or three in somewhere. (Especially somehow on the wall between me and my neighbour. I would have in mind that something catch unwary *terriers* in her tendrils. And CATS.)
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Robin wrote on Wed, 24 June 2009 19:29

*Fenced* paddocks? They grow SIDEWAYS too, really well. And you'd never have to worry about escapees again! Smile


HAHA Of course sheep and horses LOVE to eat rose bushes.... *g* The brambles won't be very good for the wool though. :S


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Robin wrote on Wed, 24 June 2009 19:29

*Fenced* paddocks? They grow SIDEWAYS too, really well. And you'd never have to worry about escapees again! Smile


And they'd discourage foxes, wouldn't they?
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Ithilien wrote on Wed, 24 June 2009 23:28

Robin wrote on Wed, 24 June 2009 19:29

*Fenced* paddocks? They grow SIDEWAYS too, really well. And you'd never have to worry about escapees again! Smile


And they'd discourage foxes, wouldn't they?


Nope. Blackberries don't. Sad The foxes just follow the holes the rabbits and wombats make under the hedges.... :S


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Re: Treasure Trove [message #17500 is a reply to message #17479 ] Thu, 25 June 2009 01:32 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Robin wrote on Wed, 24 June 2009 18:31

SEE? YOU NEED TO GROW ROSES. THERE ARE SOME VERY NICE SINGLE RUGOSAS, FOR EXAMPLE, RUGOSAS BEING MORE OR LESS UNKILLABLE. SCABROSA, FOR EXAMPLE, DESPITE THE UNFORTUNATE NAME, IS NOT ONLY HOT PINK BUT HAS A TERRIFIC SMELL. JUST FOR EXAMPLE.


Give me some time! The *new* rose bed is on The List!



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Diane in MN wrote on Thu, 25 June 2009 01:32

Robin wrote on Wed, 24 June 2009 18:31

SEE? YOU NEED TO GROW ROSES. THERE ARE SOME VERY NICE SINGLE RUGOSAS, FOR EXAMPLE, RUGOSAS BEING MORE OR LESS UNKILLABLE. SCABROSA, FOR EXAMPLE, DESPITE THE UNFORTUNATE NAME, IS NOT ONLY HOT PINK BUT HAS A TERRIFIC SMELL. JUST FOR EXAMPLE.


Give me some time! The *new* rose bed is on The List!


MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA


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Robin wrote on Thu, 25 June 2009 00:33

They really aren't going to care about small erratic buckets of bluebells, are they? It's not like we got the entire town organised all to do their bluebell-garden-eradication at the same time.

They might well be interested. Once they are sure that you/Peter are sure that these are H. non-scripta rather than H. hispanica, of course. I've got a nasty feeling that some of the bluebells in our garden are a Spanish cross... Sad (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7381245.stm for anyone interested in the difference.)

And now for something completely different (inspired by regular thoughts of puppies, I've no idea why. Smile )


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AJLR wrote on Thu, 25 June 2009 07:17


And now for something completely different (inspired by regular thoughts of puppies, I've no idea why. Smile )


!!! Woo! Fun! Very Happy


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Depends on your roses. YOu'd probably have to the Kiftsgates and Paul's Himalayans have a few unmolested years to get going. But I've heard that rugosas are *mostly* pretty critter proof from the first. You could experiment and WRITE GUEST POSTS about it. :)
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Oh good. :)
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Yes. I know our old-house bluebells are the real thing. But I don't at all trust the 'bluebells' at Third House.
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Robin wrote on Thu, 25 June 2009 00:38

(... I would have in mind that something catch unwary *terriers* in her tendrils...)

EEK! Hazel! Where are you? Beware Robin's roses!


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Oh dear, I'd no idea that having English bluebells in one part of the garden and Spanish in another might give rise to some sort of awful hybrid. I wonder if they would be sterile ... or could I end up with giant mutant bluebells battling it out with the daylilies?


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No, no, bullies are a separate planet! I LOVE bullies! I DO NOT LOVE terriers! Quod erat demonstratem or something!
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No, you'll end up with Spanish bluebells. That's why they're dangerous.
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Robin wrote on Sat, 27 June 2009 01:12

No, no, bullies are a separate planet!

Cue Twilight zone music - they will turn out to be aliens who landed, but decided to take over the world through subversive humour; maybe I should call my next litter Python, Blackadder, etc Very Happy


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Robin wrote on Sat, 27 June 2009 01:12

No, no, bullies are a separate planet! I LOVE bullies! I DO NOT LOVE terriers! Quod erat demonstratem or something!


Except that bullies ARE terriers - their full name, after all, is Staffordshire Bull Terrier!

Wonderful dogs. My mother grew up with them, and they are her "default dog", as my "default dogs" are labradors, which is what I grew up with. But when we only had one young labrador (there used to be one young and one old), my father didn't want to get another labrador for a few years, but the then lab was obviously pining and not liking being Only Dog, so Heather entered our lives.

Heather got to sit on peoples' laps. Heather got to sit on the sofa. Amazing what a difference the breed makes, doesn't it?!

And, of course, later my father got another labrador, so there were 3 dogs; and then my parents would babysit my aunt's Staffie, or my brothers' dogs.... and ended up with an enormous pack on occasion!


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Please. Your logic is showing.

I like bullies.

I do not like terriers.

Ergo, bullies are NOT TERRIERS.
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Robin wrote on Sat, 27 June 2009 19:45

Please. Your logic is showing.

I like bullies.

I do not like terriers.

Ergo, bullies are NOT TERRIERS.


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