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In article , Jane Lumley
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My worst this year is perhaps Desprez des fleurs jaunes, but it's not
altogether her fault - she's been mucked about by our horrible
neighbours and then attacked by caterpillars.

Oh, say it ain't so. I'm dying to have Jaune Desprez. I photographed a
rose on a commerical buidling that we think is Jaune Desprez:
http://www.rosefog.us/Resources/TamGlow.html

Well, as I said, it's not really her fault. She grows on a fence and
the vile neighbours have let vast weeds grow up on their side of it.
Also the caterpillar attack was bad. She also needs a warm spring. she
has flowered - she's not a dead loss - but she hasn't been as
floriferous as last year. Anyway her flowers are so beautiful that even
a few seem worth it.

When I went back to collect cutting this summer, they had cut it down
to 18 inches.

Now I ask you: how can someone cut this down?
http://www.rosefog.us/Resources/WholeTamGlow.jpg

It grows in a 12 inch strip of soil by the gas meter in the tidal flood
zone that is under water at least 10 times a year.

--
Jane Lumley