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Re: Spring flowers
« Reply #20 on: June 02, 2023, 07:56:14 AM »
They look nice.
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Re: Spring flowers
« Reply #21 on: June 04, 2023, 03:42:20 AM »
Thanks. I just wish there was a way to transmit a smell facsimile, a smax, if you will. I still say they're the best roses I ever smelled. Better than perfume. The best part, besides the wonderful aroma is, once they're established, they take just about zero maintenance. I dusted them for aphids once since August, 1991, and basically ignored them the rest of the time, even when we had extended dry spells. Sometimes I cut them back in the fall, 3 feet high or so, knee high, and  many times not all. No matter what, I can count on having bunches of roses in June. When I went out to check the mail Saturday I had my nose buried in blossoms. As I quite literally took time to smell the roses, someone parked on the street 2 doors down said something about how good they looked. I have no idea who they were, but told them the same thing I tell everyone, if they want some, come on over and cut them off. I misplaced my pruning shears, so I can't cut a lot of roses off, but if I do, the more I cut, the more it forces it to bloom elsewhere.
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Re: Spring flowers
« Reply #22 on: June 04, 2023, 07:20:42 AM »
On the "to do" list is to put in a rose garden.  It may never happen but it's on the list. 
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Re: Spring flowers
« Reply #23 on: June 05, 2023, 06:29:54 AM »
I beg your pardon... Did you promise someone a rose garden? If I dug one up and mailed it to you in the fall, it would probably grow. All I would need to do is knock most of the dirt off, but not wash it off, and you would need to dig a hole 1' wide and 1' deep to put it in. Add some halfway decent soil and water for a couple weeks and it should be good. A woman at work drove around all day with a rosebush on her towmoter in a milk jug with wet newspaper wrapped around the roots and it thrived. And I think that was in the summer when it shouldn't have been transplanted. I barely survived in the shop environment. My rosebush is like the honey badger, it doesn't give a s**t.
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Re: Spring flowers
« Reply #24 on: June 30, 2023, 08:00:45 AM »
My lilies started blooming this week and my roses are completely done dropping all their petals.  I only took a couple pictures but will take more to show more flowers, maybe when I go out to mow today.
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