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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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