"Bob Bauer" wrote in message
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This group was once such a vital and interesting place to discuss
roses.

Do you think that it is possible bring this group back to life?

Or do you think that the people who destroyed this group are still
willing to take the time and energy to destroy it again?

If they are still there with the will to ruin, then there is no
point,
but if not, and they have moved on with their lives, it would be
great to try to create a new vital rose talk community here.

I would surely love to bring rose discussions back here, seeing that
the USENET format of embedded message trees is highly superior to
the
lame and extremely clunky email or web lists such as are those used
by
yahoo groups, gardenweb or Rosarian's Corner.

The strength of USENET is that you can see exactly where you are in
any thread and read only what interests you without wading through a
bunch of messages that say stuff like "ditto".

If it is possible, I would like to give it a shot with you folks.
And
I can bring others over here as well by pointing to it on the front
page of my website (which gets pretty heavy traffic of people
interested in rose gardening and rose varieties).

Bob Bauer
http://www.rose-roses.com/

Hi Bob -

Nice to see you posting again. I've tried
to stay active here, along with a few other
folk. I'm certainly willing to get into
discussions and hope you can generate
some interest from your contacts. I agree
with you about the USENET format.

So here's my comment and question:
I seem to have trouble with crown gall or
canker. And it's not because I hoe around
my roses and do any damage. At most I'll
hand-pull weeds. I suspect the damage is
from insects. Even one of my large Teas
had a crown gall on it, although I think it
will do fine. It's the smaller, weaker roses
that succomb.

Not all of my roses get this disease, but
it seems to occur with greater frequency
than I would expect. Whenever a rose
dies, I do replace the soil, so I'm not
passing the disease on that way, and I'm
pretty careful about sterilizing tools after
pruning around a gall or canker.

If anyone has any hints other than making
my garden into a toxic dump*, I'm willing
to give it a try.

Gail
near San Antonio TX Zone 8
*I heart my bees.