"Allegra" wrote:
"Unique Too" wrote

Sorry, Allegra, I normally believe anything you say about roses,
but not this time.

And here I am trying to convince myself! No wonder it
doesn't work! G

"There is a fine line between [this] hobby and
mental illness."--Dave Barry

This is an illness called addiction. It is obvious you are
afflicted, as am I.
If we were to follow the 12 steps, perhaps it could be
controlled, but that is still in question, as no one has ever
managed to complete the 12 steps.

Oh dear, how true! This is more than an obsession, or
and addiction. It has to be the definition of madness, and
if there were 12 steps the only ones I would complete would
be the ones from the car to the nearest rose at the nursery.


This is so funny! (And so true.)

I liked this description, perhaps so much so that after seeing
the photo, I, *the no more HTs person* might well have
succumbed to this temptation.....addiction, it is an addiction.

What is really hilarious about this is that I don't even care
for HT as a whole. I bought Taboo because BH loves that
rose, other than that, but for a few modern climbers like Albertine
and the all of the Austins, I never even consider minis or
micros (Oriental Simplex being the only exception because
she fills the planter behind Kuan-Yin in the upper patio) or
HTs. So what gets to me at TPN? a modern HT. But I grant
you that it does not look like a modern HT. I think the people
at Bees in the UK were experimenting at the same time Austin
was doing his crossings. At any rate, now he sits ever so happy
in the upper patio waiting for the weather to decide if - mark
the if here - Spring is really coming.


I really understand how you feel about the HTs. There is only one
reason I have any at all, the DH really likes them, so to increase my
garden space I must buy one occasionally. So HTs have a place in my
garden, even if it only for bribery. (Umm, that fits along with the
"madness" of this hobby doesn't it.)
Spring is coming your way. Of that I'm certain. And what a glorious
spring it should be, all the roses bursting out in bloom, all the
greens making the days so much brighter. Spring will arrive but in
her own time.

How are your roses doing? Anything I should take responsibility
for in any orders I have yet to hear about? BG


No more new roses here. Cuttings rooting in pots don't count, do
they? Besides there are only six (different varieties, I know
multiples of the same rose don't count!)