On Sun, 18 May 2003 19:27:59 GMT, "GamePlayer No. 1058"
wrote:

I think my favorite rose is my J&P color magic rose. I dont know if it's
because it's the first rose I planted in my home when I bought it 9 or 10
years ago, or if it's because of it's beautifull 5 to 6" pink blooms. It
makes lovely cuttings last year and this year, for some reason the stems are
rather long last year and this year, easily14 to 24 inches with a beautiful
bloom at the top, and sometimes 5 or more blooms making it a cluster at the
top.

My other favorite was my Mr Lincoln, it put out great blooms, but one of the
dogs got a mouthfull of thorns by trying to eat it, basically he destroyed
the plant and now it's gone to a better place.

Then there is the "wild climbing rose" that sprouted out of the ground one
day 2 years ago.
In almost the same spot, I had a yellow climber that grew up to about 12
feet or so, and I leased my house out, when I returned 2 years later the
yellow climber was gone, the tennants say that during a horrible wind storm
it was blown down, so they removed what was left of it, which they say didnt
amount to more than just a couple roots. 2 years later up came this
pathetic looking twig, I let it be to see what would become of it. I'ts now
well over 20feet long on it's longest vine and I've built a trellis system
around my patio to accomodate it, it grows up one side of the trellis and
then I had to put wood slats on the top to bend the branches over to make a
roof of it. When it blooms, IT REALLY BLOOMS, with hundreds of little red
roses. Whenever it's in bloom I use the french doors on the patio to enter
and leave the house, it's just so calming to walk into this area with all
these red blooms. This one should be my favorite just because it came up
out of nothing, and gives me such delight in enjoying the blooms, but
nostalgia has its place with me, and I think if I ever sell my house I'll
take the Color Magic with me.

Im going out to buy about 5 or 50 rose bushes today, I want to totally bring
my garden into grand color by this time next year.

Please keep in mind that by planting this late in the season, next
year will only be an average year for color, because it won't be a
full second season, only a season and a half. However, it *will* give
you a jump on your *real* year two (year after next), which is usually
the year of the biggest general improvement. So you might have an even
better "second year" due to the half season this year.

Just don't want you to succumb to unreasonable expectations. Of
coruse, since you been growing roses 6 years longer than me, you might
already know this.

PS, if you like really long stem red roses, try Papa Meilland. I just
cut a bloom with a two foot long, nice straight thick stem. Currently,
Papa has 10 buds or blooms. Oh yeah, fragrance is really nice.

Here's a pic taken in November of last year!

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/ddweil...RoseTodayA.jpg