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I'm on the band wagon!!! HHRD

brother_cadfael

15 years ago

I just received my 1st ever order from Northland Rosarium.

I never expected bands to be so big and healthy!

I told Carol she's won a skeptic over to bands.

WOW!

Check out these plants!

'Tuscany Superb'

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The whole group of 8

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They were also packaged very well for their ride from Washington to Wisconsin. Shipped on the 27th and arrived today.

Carol, the owner of the nursery, was also happy to hold 2 'Long John Silver' for me for nearly a week until I put together a full order.

I Highly recommend NORTHLAND ROSARIUM in Washington State.

They have a special right now that if you order 7 roses or more you get one free. Who could resist?! Certainly not a rose junkie like myself.

Here's what I got:

2- 'Long John Silver'

1- 'Tuscany Superb'

1- 'Baronne Provost'

1- 'Crested Moss'

1- 'Leda'

1- 'Louise Odier'

1- 'Ferdinand Pichard'

I also ordered 'Yolande D' Aragon' and 'Rose de Rescht', but I was too pokey with my order and some other lucky roser got them.

Going to go dance some more now,

Rob :)

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Comments (12)

catsrose
15 years ago
I am impressed. They look really nice. Are you dancing jigs or polkas?
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carolfm
15 years ago
I kind of see Rob doing the funky chicken, but I could be wrong. :-). Those are great looking bands. I would be doing a little soft shoe of my own if I'd received those. Nice choices.

Carol
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berndoodle
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Beautiful plants.
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seattlesuze
15 years ago
Carol sure knows what she's doing. She flew from Spokane to our Heritage Roses Northwest meeting a couple of weeks ago and brought one of those beauteous Tuscany Superbs along as a generous door prize. It was so incredibly perfect, as yours are, that we who have TS in our gardens said to each other that we weren't sure it actually WAS TS, but it is, just more perfect than we've been able to accomplish. A terrific nursery with great owners. Those bands are really beautiful.

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carla17
15 years ago
Great looking but I want to know how it was taking pics on the roof.

Carla
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brother_cadfael
Original Author
15 years ago
Haha! Carla,

That made me laugh this morning.
That's the roof of my garden shed, you can see it in the background of one of the pics.

Thanks for the smile,
Rob:)
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patricianat
15 years ago
Great bands. Those look similar to the ones I got when I ordered from Amity Heritage. They send really nice bands also.
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zeffyrose
15 years ago
WOW------great roses.

Florence
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carla17
15 years ago
Ditto, nice bands from Rogue Valley, my new fav. I'm glad I made you smile Rob. :o)

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buford
15 years ago
Wow, those are huge bands. I received some bands back in March and I've potted them up and they aren't much bigger than those.

I'll have to check out Northland Rosarium. I'm officially at 99 roses, and I think I need to be at 100, don't you?
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sandy808
15 years ago
Heavens yes!
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luanne
15 years ago
I should never have looked, those are so blessedly beautiful and I get all mushy just looking at bands. I purely love to watch them grow and it is such a miraculous feeling walking around looking at what some of thosse bands have become. Incredible.
la
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