On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 12:49:23 -0500 (EST), "Shiva"
wrote:

dave weil wrote:

Well, right on schedule, I noticed the first rose bud of the season
this morning, a modest little puppy on my first blooming rose of the
year - Old Blush. It always beats everything else by weeks. I expect
to see hundreds of buds crop up in the next few days.

Grrr! How do you get a bud this early! I'm green.

Get Old Blush. chuckle

Nothing else is even close to setting buds...

Monday and Tuesday were spent feeding and doing some light pruning.
Seems like I've lost my standard (I didn't heel it in, so this should
be an object lesson, right Shiva?)

Hell, I guess so. I've never had a standard. If you can't grow them
without burying them for the winter, bet I can't.

Well, I didn't leave it in the shed like I usually do. I don't
remember how it got outside but it did, and it stayed through the
snows...

The Europeana with the rose gall
doesn't look well at all, but we'll see what happens.

I have a little KMart stumpy Europeana (it's true, as I saw one little
bloom last year) in a pot that made it through the winter and appears to
be taking off. Speaking of cheapy stumpy bagged roses--the ONLY one I have
that now looks like a normal rose is Tiffany. (Yes, it is PINK but I can
tolerate that opaque, creamy, dinner-mint pink petal color in combo with
their clear yellow base. Nice rose.)I have resisted the bag roses so far
this year. But it is early!

You'll really like Eurpoeana as it should throw some nice clusters
this year for you.

I bought a new cheap one myself and it looks pretty healthy (it's in
my next to the porch garden).

I'm disappointed
with the way that Ingrid Bergman has weathered winter as well and I'm
thinking of moving it. I actually haven't pruned it yet though.

What is wrong with her? I want Ingrid, and also Christian Dior, since
another poster raved about it. My cheapy bagged Chrysler Imperial made it
in a pot but is down to one healthy cane. The plan was to dig out Mr.
Lincoln (very sad but the last rose with terrible canker left in my garden-
-gotta go) and put Chrysler there. But Mr. L. may have won a reprieve
since Chrysler may be on its last legs. Of course, there are always the
potted roses!! They ought to arrive first week in April.

Ingrid is looking a bit anorexic. There are only two good canes now.
One of them is pretty stalky so I'm going to have to cut it off. The
other is just a nub, but it has new growth coming out of it. It's just
too close to Old Blush I think. It needs to be out in the open...I
think I'll do that after the last frost, which should be in the next
week or so...