Cass wrote:

In article g3dea.145948$L1.20297@sccrnsc02, Allegra
wrote:

"Cass" wrote
Guess who is the first to bloom this year? Safrano!

Too tender for Reno, but doing well in Auckland.

I love
buff roses and the old yolky yellow, the shades of Lady Hillingdon,
Danae, English Garden, Crepuscule, Buff Beauty (waiting for Regina to
claim her).

Oh!! I adore buff yellow roses too. Lady H just did its first (mild)
winter here, tucked up under the shelter of Sally Holmes. English
Garden - in a 15 gallon pot - got moved last summer to a full sun spot
and instantly came alive. It looks like this is one that totally hates
too much shade.

And Buff Beauty, which Cass knows I've ordered three times now, only to
get it scratched before delivery each time; I was hoping it would
finally perform for her, under threat of excommunication, but if it has
now been potted and exiled, ok, well I am READY. I don't know how it
will do here but am most interested to find out.

Next trip I make down the hill, I'll need to bring lots of plastic for
transporting roses. GOT to make it to Vintage this time too!! (Hmmm,
What does Cass want that she hasn't already bought herself??)

I have pots of Golden Celebration, Celine Forestier,
Sunshine Sally (Poor little Sunshine Sally suffers from the yellow
curse [blackspot]), and Flutterbye waiting to join their yolky
sisters...just as soon as I excavate some new rose bunkers.

I didn't know Flutterbye was yolky. I think I need to see a Plant in
Bloom.


Allegra wrote:
I love peaches, apricots,

So do I. And just as soon as I find one that doesn't succumb to rust
and that blooms non-stop, you'll be the first to know.


Which ones have you tried? Mrs. Oakley Fisher is non-stop here though I
know from nothing 'bout rust.

The Brits have
produced dozens of apricoty roses within the past 5 years, and I sure
wish we could get our hands on them.

A couple of names please?
What should I be lusting for?

[Allegra]
I love Ralph Moore
and I respect his magnum opus but there is something
about miniatures that makes me think they need fertilizer.

This cracks me up.

Never mind, let's don't go there. I have always thought
of them as *the barbies of roses*.

[Cass]
Oh oh. Quotable moment. I share your pain, sister.

Have you noticed Ruby Pendent at the SJHRG?

I just think a rose is voluptuous and must flower with
abandonment, should bob sometimes on its neck out of
sheer sensuality and I like the almost vulgar abundance
of a bloom bursting forth with petals and fragrance.
Minis always look stilted to me. As if something happened
and they just never got "there".

Heh heh. They've been banned here. I refuse to think of a 10 foot rose
an a mini and hereby decree that it is not.

Cass, remember that big spreading bush whose shape you liked along my
driveway? It's a Moore cl mi (which ought to root easily):

http://www.justourpictures.com/roses...ingjackie.html

[concerning Persian yellow] We parted ways honorably. I gave her
away and never subjected myself to another.

Yet.

My refrain.

An easier, and similar, rose for here is Harison's yellow. MUCH easier
as it is already established all over this neighborhood and all I have
to do to enjoy it is drive or walk by at the right time of year. Right
now the clump on the main road looks like a huge nasty bramble patch.

Regina