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Old 04-06-2003, 07:32 PM
Cass
 
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Default Question about pruning roses

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The Queen of Denmark, I've seen impressive pics of this rose, never made
a connection though. I grow another alba, Felicite Parmentier but I don't
see much of it, have to check on it now and again,


Here's one they can see from outer space.
http://www.rosefog.us/Roseoftheday/K...anDanemark.jpg


it grows next to Trier.
Considered moving it but you don't hang around for 200 years or whatever
if you're some kinda wimp rose that can't take a little competition.


Trier sounds like my kinda rose. I read somewhere that a lot of the
Trier sold in USA are Moonlight. What do I know. I grow Moonlight, and
it taint nearly as big as you Trier. Wide and layered, not big and
tall.


Wow, what a scam, what a travesty, I grew Moonlight for several years
actually.
A few years back I moved a bunch of roses and dropped the level of this
one area down to its original level. I left Moonlight to its fate which it
finally met last year. The stickiness and the flowers, to some degree, are
similar, I guess they'd have to be. heheh. Seriously I used to pamper that
thing--and it's unforgiving and a mean sob-- but it just never wanted to grow,
never appreciated all those times I pulled the tall grass outa the beeeeitch.
And watered it special.
Moonlight, a rose named Moonlight should be a no-brainer, should kill
everything under it, not have to worry about gd grass. I think I was taken
in by the line in the catalog that went something like 'lights up the night
garden like searchlights'.


Yeah, some northern roser used to wax poetic about Moonlight in the
night garden. Smells good. How the hell did he keep it alive, you
wonder. HM's aren't terribly hardy, Regina tells me.


http://home.earthlink.net/~cbernstei...ages/Flora.jpg


well there it is now. Cass, that's fairly obscene. No, it's really obscene.
I wouldn't want to attract that much attention, it's scary.


What, a rose bigger than a weeping mulberry? That's good. If this is
the Willits hybrid sempervirens, it probably isn't hardy. Tsk tsk. You
can't have it.

I once had bindweed pop out from under a light switchplate,
inside wall. Replaced some siding yesterday, there were a couple sections
someone was trying to weave a basket or make a door mat behind which.


What a bad bad dog. UC Davis says the vertical roots can reach depths
of 20 feet or more... its root and rhizome growth can reach 2-1/2 to 5
tons per acre. Came through my living room wall in the wall outlet,
behind the shingles, under the building paper, through the plywood,
around the framing and out the outlet. And my family is worried about
ants.