Shiva wrote:
Susan H. Simko wrote:


The Blue Girls and the red mystery rose have buds!!! I'm restraining
myself from checking them frequently for progress as I suspect the
little tempermental divas will deliberately slow down development just
to torment me. *smile*

Ha ha! They will, they will! When the red blooms, lay it on your scanner
if you can bear to cut the bloom. Let us help you id it, that's always
fun. I love red roses. Got two dozen longstems for my birthday--so
beautiful but so sterile smelling. I always feel great about growing rose
when I take a whiff of a florist rose.

Me? Not cut roses? I want that fragrance and I want it in my house and
all around me! *grin* I've been taking photographs of everything this
year so I'll probably just take a photo of the cut rose and then scan
that. After all I don't want to crush a perfectly good rose in my
scanner as I don't have quite as many roses as some other people do!
*grin* Because of that, I try to make my cut roses last a little longer.
Then again, too, this year I will also have double the roses I had
last year.

Right now, I think the s.o. will be happy to see rose "season" start and
hyacinth season end as there have been a few comments that the roses
aren't as heavily scented as the cut hyacinths. I'm hoping Double
Delight puts an end to that.

Funny, I love red roses but only if they have scent. Florist roses
always irritate me due to the lack of scent and because most of the time
they never even open because the stems are damaged under the heads even
when they've been wired. My favourite cut flower from a store are
alstroemeria lilies. However, since I also have an entire bed devoted
to them that should be coming into flower this year, the s.o. may have
to come up with something else...

Did you see some snow yesterday? I understand Durham had some for about
the time it took to fall from the sky to the pavement.

I was actually in Raleigh yesterday when the precip was happening. What
I saw was rain = slush = hail = slush = hail = rain as I was in out
and out of HomeGoods, Petsmart and the grocery store.

Susan
s h simko at duke dot edu