Welcome, Le-Ann. Your Eden looks gorgeous and will be even more so as it matures. As for the wild rose, may I suggest that you post this picture on the Antique Rose Forum? I know very little about the wild roses, but there is a certain wild rose that plays host to the dreaded Rose Rosette Disease (I think I have the name right) which will decimate all your roses in short order. The folks there will know whether this is the "bad" rose. Actually, I think I'm being elitist because there are some very knowledgeable individuals on this forum who may also know the answer. At any rate, welcome and I hope you'll also consider growing some of the older roses that are very disease-resistant and won't need spraying and will be well-adapted to your environment and climate. Ingrid

I would like to go back to the VFT discussion, because sometimes I get too caught up in science discussions, and I do not have time for so much writing. Has any one ever seen a B52 with traps of more than 2" in size??? Because this plant is selling for $25.00 each with only one inch size traps. And until now, I have not found one pic on the net that shows me this is a true giant. I have Dingley Giants, Big Mouths, Dutch, Big Vigorous, and the Royal Red. Well, I have more cultivars than this, but these are the giants. In all my fifteen years growing these plants, I find that the trap sizes are as follows in smallest to largest: Dutch, Big Mouth, Dingley Giant, Royal Red, and the largest of them all.. The Big Vigorous. This plant without seen the label I can spot it in my CP garden because it always deploys large traps. So I am wondering if the B52 might trully be bigger than the Big Vigorous, or would the Big Vigorous win in size. The greatest thing about the Big Vigorous is that the traps are not only larger than any other cultivar I know, but the traps teeth are thick making the plant look stronger which is why it is call Vigorous. In my garden I actually have others that are bigger than even the Big Vigorous, but they are plants that I grew from seeds and have not registered them as cultivars. I am looking for the largest traps in the world and they might be right in my garden..... that is if the B52 is not as large as they claim. I guess the best thing to do would be to buy one, and grow it big myself. So my next question woould be....Does any one knows a good reputable place to buyt this plant?

Hhhhhmmm. The foliage is shorter and more awl shaped than most Sequoia semprevirens. I'll wait for a final determination from Resin. OTOH, the photograph is not close enough to make it easy. http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8fdAjWGnOxY/TKqHT5HuSAI/AAAAAAAABCY/h3ak1pVS5Cs/s1600/Sequoia+sempervirens+needles.png http://swbiodiversity.org/seinet/taxa/index.php?taxon=34029 You would think with the software update to squeeze more ads into this website, they would be able to automatically html-ize links, something that started becoming widespread almost 10 years ago on other discussion forums.

Hi Jose, Is that the "Todd St" fig or the fig you rescued growing by the train station? Not to argue but the fig leaf in your photo I consider a 5-finger, 2 thumb leaf. Mine is a 3-finger, 2 thumb leaf. I could be wrong but I thought the thumbs were the 2 projections pointing back down the stem. At least that's what I concluded from Condit's description of a Brunswick leaf. But you are correct, it really is too soon to know. I just thought it interesting that there is NO leaf shape differences in all the leaves except for size. Even the tiniest, newest leaf is the same 3-finger, 2-thumb shape as an older larger leaf. Does anyone out there have a leaf shaped like this one? It will be fun to watch this one grow...I'm SO EASILY entertained. ;-) Sue