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Old 24-07-2003, 09:32 PM
Heidi
 
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Default Rose names I'd like to see

I think there should be a Jackie O. So that I can plant it between my
JFK and Marilyn Monroe.






Mark. Gooley wrote:

[Excuse my lack of correct French...]
Souvenir de Vlad Tepes (blood-red, thorny of course)
General Powell
Victor Frankenstein
Spike Milligan
Graham Chapman
Hugh the Manatee
Smells Like Teen Spirit
Mother Teresa
Unjust Joey
Old Dusk (and other parody names)
Have A Tequila
Toilet Tissue
Lance Armstrong (yellow and very hardy)
Souvenir de Graceland
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms
Souvenir de Branson (or Dollywood, Monde de Disney,
Rock City, Wall Drug, etc.)
Prozac (also Effexor, Wellbutrin, and other antidepressants,
with permission from manufacturers)
Viagra (genetic engineering to make it little and blue?)
Morticia Addams (bred from R. sericea pteracantha: showy
thorns, insignificant flowers, once-blooming)
Go Away
Pee Wee Herman (miniature, pale)
Jesse Ventura (very large, very showy, very winter-hardy)
Jack Daniels (not quite a Bourbon rose, but perhaps related)
Isaac Hayes (as suggested in this forum already)
Murquess of Queensbury
Marquis de Sade
Duke of Earl
Duke Ellington
Cab Calloway
Louis Armstrong

Mark., and many many more I can't think of just now