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[Chickielady]

For those not knowing...this is Lyda Rose:

and Stumpfarmer not only grows, but has much knowledge on Botanicals...hedges, trees, roses & all plants.

I do not want anyone to feel left out in this conversation.
Lyda Rose is extremely fragrant........and a climber, and I want her up my porch & over the top...and then I will need to trim her as this rose can go a long long long ways....
The blooms are almost etherial...is that the correct word ?
And remind me of Dogwood.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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I wish I could but being cold makes me feel as if I'm going to die. I used to have an old, old pair of men's wool suit pants that I took in a foot at the waist and worked outside in in winter, but they were lost in a tragic stupidity event when we were moving into this houseoid and I haven't found another pair at Goodwill to replace them.

Geeze............I run outside (lately) and run back in.
IF it is below 30, I have a few pair of carpenter type jeans lined with soft jammie-type flannel.............HEAVY especially after running around almost nekked, but soooooooo nice & warm.
Look at Dennis Company or send me your waist size & I will get ya a pair...you will love them !!!

Thing is, I am at the run-up to calving season, which means I have to be outside until I do a visual check on all the cows here (16 of them on 40 acres with no cross-fencing left) which puts me away from the house for a LONG time if I'm not lucky.

Anyway, the red Korean which the weevils think is tastier than anything except my climbing hydrangea:

 

[TheReidHomestead]

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BEAUTIFUL!!! Where did you acquire her? I think I need one, or a pair of them even.

 

[Totalcolour]

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OOOOH - if you do prune, stick a cane in the ground for me, would ya! When my Mom died, the neighbour, who had looked after her, cut a cane and stuck it in her own garden to remember her. Every year now, she tells me when "Joan" is blooming. I love roses and miss that in southern Cal I could have them blooming on Christmas. My roses were over 8 feet tall, mostly Teas but I love the floribundas and the Grandifloras especially. Actually, I love them all, especially the once with fragrance. I like peonies too.

 

[Chickielady]

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Geeze............I run outside (lately) and run back in.
IF it is below 30, I have a few pair of carpenter type jeans lined with soft jammie-type flannel.............HEAVY especially after running around almost nekked, but soooooooo nice & warm.
Look at Dennis Company or send me your waist size & I will get ya a pair...you will love them !!!

Thing is, I am at the run-up to calving season, which means I have to be outside until I do a visual check on all the cows here (16 of them on 40 acres with no cross-fencing left) which puts me away from the house for a LONG time if I'm not lucky.

Anyway, the red Korean which the weevils think is tastier than anything except my climbing hydrangea:

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a41/Julia_here/DSC_0350-1.jpg

Mine is not so fluted....but just as red.
Beautiful !!

 

[Chickielady]

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OOOOH - if you do prune, stick a cane in the ground for me, would ya! When my Mom died, the neighbour, who had looked after her, cut a cane and stuck it in her own garden to remember her. Every year now, she tells me when "Joan" is blooming. I love roses and miss that in southern Cal I could have them blooming on Christmas. My roses were over 8 feet tall, mostly Teas but I love the floribundas and the Grandifloras especially. Actually, I love them all, especially the once with fragrance. I like peonies too.

This is no florabunda...this lady will over come a house, over the top & down the other side...she is no lady !!

 

[Chickielady]

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BEAUTIFUL!!! Where did you acquire her? I think I need one, or a pair of them even.

As it happened I was asking for a climbing fragrant old world rose...it can be seen earlier last year...then Stumpfarmer was looking for a nice Blue Ameracauna Cockerel...so we traded, and I am so still excited !
At the time, Lyda was a stick in a tiny 2"by 2" box of soil...smaller than a milk carton.....
And she grew soooooooooo fast & smells so wonderful.
My dream is of her covering the porch.....and this rose is so fragrant...and is such a nice smell, not like cut roses at all, it is a deeper more musky smell..is that the correct wording?
Not musky like an animal...just sweeter & stronger.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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You ?
Artsie Fartsie ??

I have 2 Rhodies here, planted by the former occupants, who came from Arizona every spring to escape the heat, and returned in fall.
They planted a small rose too...looks to be some sort of tea............maybe, hell I don't know.
It was untended for several years as were the rhodies.
The rhodies were infested with grub...leaves all cut up, so I sprayed & they bloomed last spring:: RED so RED it is like a firetruck.............
And the rose I dug up, and potted & is in the green house with Lyda.
It has never bloomed..was planted on a sandy hillside here & I've no idea what it is...maybe this year it will be loving the compost & bloom for us !!!

Blasted strawberry root weevil and their leaf-notching ways! It hasn't bothered any of the weird species rhodies I've got in the ground (Oreo is the normal one; I've got a winter-blooming mauve that has vermillion fall color and a tiny white-blossomed one that looks like Labrador Tea and a yellow called Yellowhammer which blooms off and on all year long) or the two alpine minis in pots, but they are trying to take out a brilliant red Korean one that I can't put in the ground until I get rid of a hawthorne tree. I need to remember to repot it and then use tanglefoot to trap the weevils.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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BEAUTIFUL!!! Where did you acquire her? I think I need one, or a pair of them even.

Lyda Rose at Heirloom Roses

 

[Chickielady]

Anyone ever goes to visit Stumpfarmer will see all around her home is a rare nursery.........so many different species it bogles the mind, and she knows each one, and all their botanical names...she is amazing !!
Anyone ever needs Qs about any plants..she is the go to gal.