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is it silly?
"ed" wrote : Is it silly to have purchased three roses from home despot at a "bargain" of 5 bucks a rose? When I go on these wintertime jaunts to find the first rose of the winter, I look for the healthiest appearing rose as opposed to a specific type. Anybody else do this kind of insanity? I've done it at Home Despot and even at WalleyeMart. Got one of those red and white things (Double Delight? Fourth of July? I forget) and a Sonia and a few others in late fall, bushes almost defoliated by black spot and weather and whatnot but with healthy new growth on them, marked down to $2 each. Oh, and I've bought over twenty of those bare-root waxed things, just as I've confessed in earlier postings, prices ranging from $2.50 to $5.97, a few even own-root. I've been putting the bare-root plants into gallon-sized grower pots -- the survival rate seems to be better when I do that. I have plenty of room...the only problem is that eventually I still have to PLANT the roses in the ground, or else keep moving them up to bigger and bigger ones. ( did the bare-root-into-pot shtick with a couple hundred trees a few years ago...then neglected them. I now have those trees, most of their roots well below the pots, having pierced a layer of ground cloth, in a big mass...I've begun hacking them out and I suspect I'll lose most of them, but I haven't much choice.) Mark. |
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