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Shiva 25-09-2003 11:42 AM

Granada! was OT--Isabel & Sinus Problems
 
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 15:17:50 -0400, "Susan H. Simko"
wrote:



I went another direction - tomato broth with lots of garlic and hot
pepper. *grin* I don't ned much encouragement to eat spicy food or
lots and lots of garlic.


Oh yeah, I need to make lunch for you once I get a life, if that ever
happens. G


Back to roses, my Granada is blooming. I had thought the blooms this
summer weer beautiful, but these are incredible. It's like watching a
tropical sunset. I am so glad that Shiva's talk about how gorgeous this
rose is made me decide that I must have one!


I'm so glad you like it as much as I did. I cannot tell you how it
felt to see my three-year-old plant lying on its side, roots gone to
the voles. I have two baby own roots that might produce next year,
though. It will be interesting to see how this rose does on its own
roots. Grafted it put out about 5 big flushes, 20+ roses a pop on a
young plant, and squoze out a few blooms the in between. What I might
do, given how much I love this rose, is go get, like, five potted ones
from local nurseries, they are easy to find. Then I could plant them
in a big hole with chicken wire and permatil and a prayer, and maybe
have some blooms in 2004.



Also, interesting enough, one Double Delight is blooming up a storm and
the other appears to be pouting. The one that is going gang busters is
a bare root that I bought directly from J&P. The other is a potted J&P
that I bought at Lowes on a whim. (I know it's a DD as it had blloms on
it when I bought it and has bloomed since.) The Lowes rose was also
twice the size of the bare root when I put the Lowes in the ground.
However, the bare root now makes the Lowes look like a shrimp. Near
identical conditions for the two roses so it's just "interesting" right now.




Two things: I gotta have DD--I know I'll like it, though the colors
are hard for me to warm up to, the scent and bloomiferousness will
make it worth it. And--my experience has been the same with the Lowes,
HD, KMart roses. When they lived! But I have two Circus roses going
big guns that I bought at Lowes. $4 a rose is just too tempting.
POTTED, too! Hope you're feeling better.

Susan
shsimko at duke dot edu




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