Another non brugger bites the dust. LOL Bluespiral, you are now ours. Loved your story!
Please tell me it's a "Y"!
Linda - it's getting worse instead of better. Pots have accumulated already because I didn't know where to put them now that I had them or they have to wait for bed space to open up when daffs/tulips one done. I thought I had received everything that had been ordered.
ehhhhh! Email started showing up this week with one delivery yesterday and 2 more today. Stuff I had ordered back in Dec from places that take the money up front, so I had forgotten. aaaaggggghhhhhhhH!
oh Blaine, sounds like a sad life you lead. LOL. Send them on over to me!!
Graham Thomas and Eden are now on my list, thank you so very much! Of course I need more, and more, and more... Later ~ Suzi :)
=) graham thomas and a "surprise" are arriving monday, according to ARE e-mail. mother's day gifts still coming...
been out all day. i have two guys working in the yard. holes for roses! my 3-yr old is supervising.
i hope you are all having a wonderful saturday.
OH what a beautiful rose the Graham Thomas is Briar, its stunning! I haven't got any roses...but one day I shall start. This one seems like a great start right here with this one :-)
All of your roses posted here are gorgeous!
Hugs
Julie
Thank you for the welcome. I try to read one brugie thread a day - seems a lot to learn here. This forum reminds me of a cyber village equivalent to the villages in England, where one village would specialize in breeding carnations and another hyacinths, and so forth. If my memory is working right now, it was the influx of French Huguenot refugees into England that had to do with this type of flower breeding activity.
But, my "retirement" is temporary - I wanna finish college - even with all these silver hairs - so - honest - am thinking one pot of you know what. Have you heard this before from others who were overcome with Brugie Mania?
For those who haven't read that roses-in-the-shade thread for which I posted a link above, we grow Graham Thomas on 1/2 day of sun - not enough for most other roses, with which we have experimented, much to the delight of neighbors who were recipients of these failed experiements. Here, 12 miles SW of Baltimore, this rose is almost covering an arbor over a path to a yew hedge, opposite. We don't spray it, and it doesn't get as magnificent as the specimen Kell posted a picture of above, but what a celebration it makes for rose time here, in front of the blue gate.
bluespiral, please post photos! and thanks for the "roses in the shade" link. now i am EVER MORE EXCITED about "graham thomas".
i just came back from outside - - - planted 5 bareroot roses underneath the second floor deck.
2 end posts: "scent from above" (climber)
middle post: "social climber"
between the posts: "disneyland"
(more things to do while waiting for my brugs to grow and bloom!)
Moonglow - It takes DH and I a while to give in to newfangled contraptions - haven't gotten around to a digital camera. I'd love to make a photo of a peeper on a waterlily pad in the moonlight - one of these days.