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A 'blast from the past'

malcolm_manners

13 years ago

Hi folks. I just posted pictures from the 2005 Heritage Rose Foundation Conference and the El Cerrito Celebration of Old Roses, as well as tours of Vintage Gardens, Moore's Miniature Roses, and the San Jose Heritage Rose Garden, and the Sacramento Historic Rose Garden.

Several of you "youngsters" (well, we were younger then...) are featured.

Enjoy, and if you find a photo with someone misidentified, or so embarrassing that someone may take out a contract on me, please let me know!

Malcolm

Here is a link that might be useful: Link to the Photos

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Rosefolly

7 years ago

Jeri dear friend, it was a great event, filled with wonderful people. But I refuse to get stuck in the past. I have a tendency to do that and I am working on overcoming it.

More great events are coming our way, along with wonderful people we have not yet met, or have met but have not yet gotten to know. We are lucky for what we had, but we can look forward to more good fortune in the future.

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cemeteryrose
13 years ago
What a trip you had! Great memories. Nice to see Mel and Miriam.
Anita
harborrose_pnw
13 years ago
I enjoyed looking and seeing some faces to go with names I've read. I also enjoyed Nuits de Young in a beer bottle and Geranium is certainly a pretty thing.

Thanks for posting the pics.
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I like Giada's recipes but I don't for one second believe that she eats anything other than breathmints and kale, and probably kale breathmints. I like Ina, and I love her story and her relationship with Mr Ina. I find their role modelling of a supportive,compatible loving couple, still romantic in middle age, refreshing and salutary. It reminds me too, of the Childs. My thoughts from watching Rae (years ago now) are that her food is awfully heavy unless you are a teenage male ranch hand. I don't think her food is cr@ppy like Ms. Lee's' it's just not of much interest to me. If I just want to make something tasty, I can make mac n cheese like anyone else. If I am going to a lot of trouble it should be tasty, interesting, AND relatively healthy. Show me how to do that and I will watch.
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mariannese
13 years ago
I visited SJHRG in February 2001 when only two roses were beginning to flower, a banksia and a climbing tea. I was guided by Mel Hulse so I saw the garden through his eyes and could imagine what it would be like later. Very nice to see all the roses in gorgeous profusion and that very nice man, Da Kernel, too.

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ingrid_vc so. CA zone 9
13 years ago
I don't know when I've enjoyed a rose slide show so much. It brought back wonderful memories of the UC Berkeley Botanical Garden which I visited many times and love more than any other botanical garden. The El Cerrito Rose Festival was a great reminder of the one time I was fortunate enough to attend. It was an unforgettable experience. Putting faces to well-known names was also very satisfying. Seeing Miriam Wilkins whose rose garden I visited when she was so much younger was very poignant. I remember buying a guilt-inducing number of books from Barbara Worl at her wonderful store. Truly a trip down memory lane for me. Thank you so much Malcolm!

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Rosefolly
7 years ago
What fun! I think that was the first time I met you, Malcolm, though I knew you from the forum.

I also heard Jim Delahanty speak at the conference that day. And the Tea ladies from Australia were there. It was quite an event!

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jerijen
7 years ago
It made me feel sort of wistful and sad. :-(
jerijen
7 years ago
Bless you Folly -- You are so much more positive than I feel tonight.

But never think that I do not cherish the wonderful friends I still have.

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