Well that's good your mystery turned out to be such a good rose! Do you have a up-to date picture? I didn't realize there was two different roses by that name. I think mine is a hybrid china..or atleast I thought that was what RVR classed it as. That is where I got mine. I love a mystery as well, but like you said you can't recommend it when you don't have a name. Although I have traded and recommended some of my no-name roses. I actually am trading a few this year..she said she loved mystery roses! I also traded one 3 or 4 years ago and they named it after me :)

Owning 40acres in Northern WI. It has a pond for drainage as well as a pond underging succession. I want to change that and had come here as there are some other folks out there doing the same. I wanted to clarify some things. According to a checklist I found dnr.wi.gov/topic/waterways/checklists/checklist_manualdredging.pdf it appears that I can do this. I have an area about 30' x 20' that I will bring all down to about 1' or less, as long as it all has water and I can get rid of the canary grass. I will so this by hand and plan on replanting with native WI plants which will benifit nature. I realizeI am disrupting nature but there are some species of plants which are not native and are invasive which I would like to avoid and be rid of. I have read much drivel on this site and anyone who wants to know local/state laws the DNR of many states have excellent information on their respective websites. What a wonderful wealth of information. Teaches all anything from planting trees to building a pond. After removing I will place the spoils within 20' of the newly rejuvenated pond in case i picked up any critter along the way. They can make their way back home. I would love to simply fill in the wet hole but I cannot following the law!!! I repeat, following WI DNR codes I will work MY land finding compromise with what I would like as well abiding by laws set up to protect nature. I will plant the following in the water that will fill the hole: Spike Rush, Arrowhead, Waterlily, Pickerelweed, Sweet Flag, Wild Celery, Longleaf Pondweed, Water Stargrass All are edible by various wildlife and even some by humans. I do not have such an ego that I will keep them all for myself...... An old post I am adding to but I enjoyed and am going to enjoy more watching the ducks swim among the frogs. There are 39.8 more acres that has already succesionized so I don't worry too much. I hope the rest of the frogs nt in the pond don't die too much from the glyphosate I will use to get rid of the canary grass so I can plant trees. Only about 400 this year.

Haahahahaa! Karen this is SO funny. I'm bursting into laughter reading these posts again, and remembering writing and reading them at the time. Well done! And my favourite part about Martha Stewart dropping in with her dish towel parachute!!! WAY too funny!

Thanks! Glad ya all like it. 💕 @Jilly...IDK It's a "warm" brown. My story about THIS house. It's HUGE! 6/6/4. 10 years old. Never finished, rotted deck supports, metal deck railing rusted and falling down. The owner was living in it with his kid. He was unable to handle ALL the work it needed. ALL the appliances were non-working. There was NO exhaust hood. We moved in and started working on it. Then COVID hit. Most of the rooms were empty of furniture. Now I'm getting the landscaping in, window coverings....furniture...