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Comments (10)Hi easttexasgirl and flowersandbirds4ever : Your priority mail packages are jam packed (nicely of course) and going to the PO today. Easttexasgirl--please send your address. In all our gabbing we forgot to give the snail mail address! Since shipping is so costly, I hope you can fill your boxes for me as well. That's why I like to do large trades. -------------- Still have one kerria rose, some false Lamium,lots of gooseneck loosestrife and lots of woodland roses left. BTW, the false lamium is a great groundcover that looks a lot like the foliage of coral bells and has a pretty yellow flower kind of like snapdragons....See MoreLadies, what skincare products do you use and love?
Comments (78)Don't smoke or drink either. And there's no question that desert is a major food group! :)) I use Olivia Care Olive Oil Soap on my face and in the shower - love the Verbena scent and all those suds! In the winter I don't need moisturizer. I buy it at TJMaxx. For 20 years I've used a Buff Puff on my face. For facial moisturer Jergens Skin Firming Lotion. I've used several others that I really liked, and every time I ran out and went to buy more, they were discontinued or had added obnoxious fragrance. How exasperating! I don't like the strong fragrance in the heavier duty "regenerating" lotions. I find that smiling works best on the Howdy Doody lines - hate those things! Can't bring myself to lay out $20 for a tiny little jar so I guess this is it. Sherry...See MoreRose season and the labor of a garden
Comments (17)Bill, Bart, Catsrose, Sherry, Pam, Auntlavender, Kippy, Jerome, I'm glad you all liked this, and that you wrote to say so. Communication is precious! Bill, so are poems, the spring water of the soul. Bart, beetles have been pretty bad here, but not as awful as last spring; the "cetonielle" (smaller black ones with white dots) are somewhat fewer, but the population of "cetonie" (green-gold and bigger) seems to have grown. This spring has turned out a lot better than a person would have thought, hasn't it? Some of my Gallicas in particular have had big full blooms such as come only during a good season. About the once-blooming roses, my guess is that you can grow them. Do apples and cherries grow in your area? Tulips and daffodils? All these need winter chill. Here we had some extremely warm winters back around 2005-06, I believe it was, and I worried that there weren't enough chill hours for the plants that needed them, but everything bloomed just fine. I have the highest opinion of these roses, and find they're perfectly suited to my climate, and I suspect to yours as well. Perhaps I should add that a really hot dry spot doesn't suit most of them...well, perhaps the Albas and the Damasks. Funny, I feel guilty when I sit down and just enjoy the sight of my garden, but isn't that what it's there for? Hear, hear, Catsrose. Definitely keep on being proud of your garden and enjoy your visitors' enjoyment. Sherry, I don't draw well, my little sketches grow out of determination and nothing more, though I do enjoy the manuality of them. I need to learn to use a camera. I admire the many examples of good photography I see here and am aware it would be a hugely useful tool for me, but I haven't applied myself to the task of learning. Pam, your rose season sounds wonderful, and a most well-deserved payment for your labors. I think it's marvelous that you offer so many people the memorable experience of being in your garden. Kippy, I bet you already know that you're never done. But it sounds like you're getting close to a kind of gardening that's less chores and more play and enjoyment and experimentation. Jerome, I read Thomas's book early on in my rose growing career and agree that it's a book that promotes dreams. I still have it on my shelf. The sobriety of his style makes it all the more effective in communicating his love for these rare, lost roses and in describing their charm. Did you ever look into the Hybrid Chinas? These are--I read--once-blooming crosses between China and once-flowering old roses that look a lot like their once-blooming parents but are more tolerant of lack of winter chill. I'm getting this from the Vintage Rose Book. The Hybrid Chinas include highly desirable varieties like 'Duchesse d'Angouleme', 'Hippolyte', and 'Juno', all of them having to my eyes a convincing old rose air. If you're interested you could inquire on the forum and see what gardeners who have conditions similar to yours have to say about them. Melissa...See MorePersil...Be Gone!!
Comments (39)Very good deducing and thoughts/comments here. Thanks to everyone for your input. I appreciate the dialog going on. I just want to clarify for *us* and Persil...it's not a vomit odor. We don't have that. Thank goodness. It's the over the top fragrance. *That* is what we consider stinking to high heaven. We like a nice fresh fragrance as much a lot of people do, but this is not a light or fresh fragrance. Maybe we got a bad bottle and a bad box of pods? Couple the overbearing perfumes with the poor washing action, that's why it's on our kaa-kaa list. We literally get dirty, smelly laundry with an unnecessarily extremely highly perfumed effect when we have used Persil liquid or pods. It works ok for my laundry, but then again people joke and call me the odor-less woman, so it's not much of a challenge to clean my laundry; stains aside. Personally, I don't have enough clothes to keep my laundry to separate Sea Sea only batches. I tried that and I ran out of clothing. Everybody else here who creates laundry, not so much. They issue a challenge for any detergent. So, it's like dirty body wearing way too much 1980's perfume. You still smell the stink but now you smell the strong perfume as well. It's interesting how different water chemistry and I suppose washing machines can have such different effects on the laundry outcome when using Persil. For us, it's a nope. I'm glad it does work well for some of you. I just wish it *would* work for us. But it doesn't. Again, great conversation!...See Morecath41
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