Anita,

I just put in a request today to have that day off...now I am thinking I put in for the 19th...going to have to change that. Do you have any idea who is going to be there from GW?

Gerry

Jackie O and Eric (cincy) were talking about it. I don't think that any of us have ever met, so we'll have to figure out a meeting place. I hope that some others come, too, and that the weather is good and the roses fabulous!
Anita

I hope the roses are fabulous too, going to miss mine so much this year, but I do have a few I brought, including a found moss rose. Waiting for them to bloom, checking the buds everyday.

I wish I had room for more, or at least some that are able to be potted roses here, but need to be so darned cold hardy to stay out all winter in this climate.

Are you anywhere near the bad weather tonight, just talking to a GW friend in Riverside, and they had a tornado about an hour ago...so strange for there.

Thanks Anita! I'll be there and looking for you, Eric and Gerry.
Okay so I'm not familiar with most of those old roses. Anybody care to enable before the big day????
: )

Argghh....roses for sale too? Twist the knife. After seeing this post, I reminded my wife that I wanted to go, then she says "I think my University of Cincinnati graduation is that day." And of course it is, she is getting a master's degree in psychology. Ah well, next year? I was looking forward to seeing some other people in person. Don't think I didn't float the idea of trying to zoom up to Columbus then go to graduation :)

Eric

Eric LOL! I think you've got your priorities in order there buddy.

Jeri's offered to help me work up tags for these roses - there's probably a way for me to share info about them before the sale, but if I can't, there will at least be photos and info on the day of the sale. I don't know some of the roses at all, but am familiar with others, including some terrific climbers. All are cold-hardy for northern Ohio.

Sorry to miss you, Eric. I'm hopeful this will turn into an annual event - it's the first time that they are doing it. Don't know that I'll be able to come another year, either - am coming back to Ohio for my mother's 90th b'day, so this is a very special trip.

No, I'm not anywhere near the California tornado or fire, thank goodness. We've had bad winds for the last two days, but they've died down tonight.
Anita

Anita, those tags can (I think) be turned into a pdf catalog, which you could make available for download (the way I did the Cemetery catalog).
I think we can do it.

Jeri

We might bring some potted plants to give away in the parking lot: James Mason, Complicata, seedlings; big blooming-size plants; some may be too big to get in car.

Eric, and whomever else can't come on the 14th, this garden is always open to the public, so you can come any time. It's well worth the trip. I saw it only once before, two years ago, and have talked and thought about it ever since. It's especially a revelation for a California gardener, since there are OGRs growing there so much better than we can do in our warm climates, including many that I'd never seen before. For you zone 5/6 folks, here's a collection that's survived for thirty-five years, with bushes of magnificent, mature size.
Anita

Update! My wife won't be graduating till August...so I can go! Woohoo! Looking forward to seeing some GW members and picking up a rose or two.

Eric

Eric, see you there! I wonder if I should feel any sympathy about your wife not graduating for a few months more - nope, I don't, glad that you'll be able to make it!
Anita

Updating this thread . . .

CemeteryRose (Anita) is off today for Ohio.
The Catalog for the Wooster event on June 14 was competed last night, and uploaded this morning.

You can get the catalog, which also includes information about the garden there (which I wish I could go see),
at the link below:

Jeri

Here is a link that might be useful: Wooster Ohio Open Garden Info & Catalog

We welcome her with our 90 degree weather and humidity this week. DW is onboard, she even postponed her church reading, which is very important :) Great job on the catalog, after seeing it, I have a couple more for the list.

Eric

Eric, I only wish I could be there to see the whole thing.
That catalog was a joy to do, as I learned a LOT about roses I've never seen, and never before heard of.

Jeri

Damnation, I was really hoping to visit Wooster with Kent Krugh & Doug Seidel this year, to help with the ID of any (hopefully) still-surviving Horvath setigera climbers. But the cost of travel has raised its mighty ugly head. Nice work with the catalog, Jeri!

Well, dang!
I'd love to hear that you could do that, too.
Both Anita and I are intrigued by 'Buff King,' and I am wondering what other Horvath roses might be there.

I just wish Wooster weren't so far away.
It's way too far to go from SoCal, in a motorhome, with gas at the price level it is.
Darnit.

Jeri

Jeri,

Your catalog makes me want to hop on the next plane to Ohio. You did a fabulous job.

Kathy