FWIW don't leave your half-standard rose with full leaf and flowers out in
a high wind :-(

or your Kilmarnock Willow......... ;-(

Mike

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"Jim S" wrote in message ...

FWIW don't leave your half-standard rose with full leaf and flowers out in
a high wind :-(

On 12/08/2014 10:20, Jim S wrote:
FWIW don't leave your half-standard rose with full leaf and flowers out in
a high wind :-(



Oh dear :~(. You have my sympathy. It's never happened to me, but it
has to a friend. It can also happen to Agapanthus (it's *meant* to
happen once the seeds are ripe, so the decapitated head can 'cartwheel'
and spread the seeds), but it's galling when it happens to a beautiful
flower head.
--
Spider.
On high ground in SE London
gardening on heavy clay

On Tuesday, August 12, 2014 10:20:33 AM UTC+1, Jim S wrote:
FWIW don't leave your half-standard rose with full leaf and flowers out in

a high wind :-(

or try to fold it to get it in a car as one of or customers did at the nursery where I worked years ago.

Rod

In article ,
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On Tuesday, August 12, 2014 10:20:33 AM UTC+1, Jim S wrote:
FWIW don't leave your half-standard rose with full leaf and flowers out in

a high wind :-(

or try to fold it to get it in a car as one of or customers did at the nursery where I worked years ago.

Rod

LOL.

Janet.