I saw the first dreaded Japanese beetle today, on my mailbox! I have to get
back outside to look at my roses to see if any beetles are on them yet, but
I have to get my courage up,so I came inside to go on my computer first and
steady my NERVES!! We've had a little too much rain here in PA. You were
lucky with your Cecile Brunner. Mine was damaged last year and only the root
stock is growing and flowering. Take care, Sis
"dave weil" wrote in message
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On Mon, 07 Jun 2004 02:31:50 GMT, in rec.gardens.roses you wrote:

I'm here -- and so are the Japanese beetles, sigh.

Yep, here as well. Funy thing is, they are probably starving since for
some reason, I don't have a lot of blooms at the moment.

The good news is that we finally had some rain here (2" last Sunday and
another 2" on Friday) -- I was getting really tired of seeing how much
"official" rain was measured at the Raleigh-Durham airport, grrr! (They
would show 1.5" when I had .10 -- not to mention that my soil is
entirely
sand!)

The bad news for me is that we had a storm last week and my dead maple
tree with the Cecile Brunner blew over. One piece of good luck though.
It fell the right way for the rose to suffer minimum damage. Had it
fallen the other way, it would have snapped and crushed the main
canes. Now, instead of an upright rose, I'm going to have a pretty
impressive large bush.

Here are the photos.

http://www.pbase.com/teleburst/cecile_brunner

I threw in the obligatory cat shot as well...
BTW, when I deadheaded the roses are week or so ago, some flowers had
actually dried up before they even fully opened (and the buds had a
nasty,
brownish tinge on the outside) -- I assume that this is insect damage
of
some sort? (from the inside)

I've had that as well.

Anne Lurie
Raleigh, NC



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