Info/Experience on these older Austins?
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14 years ago
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Update RE Customer Service Experience at David Austin USA
Comments (7)I was going to suggest you review them at reseller ratings.com but they aren't listed. I'm glad it worked out and do feel you should mention this to corporate so that it doesn't happen again. As I said in your other post, they were wrong to send you the roses to begin with when the one time card number was declined. Fact was you placed multiple orders this year according to your other post; no one should get treated poorly when trying to rectify a situation. You mentioned that who ever took the info over the phone didn't seem to care you tried multiple times to pay. This is the person I'd be pissed off at. Jo's letter to you was probably computer generated and the same one that goes out to everyone that hasn't paid. I've dealt with my share in the last year or so due to my daughters medical bills. They send the bills to my ex, he never pays them, eventually it goes to collections but they find my name and address instead of his. So far I have not run across any rude/nasty people. They all listen to my story, see the history and offer to help me figure out how to pay it....See MoreMy David Austin by UPS experience
Comments (5)Seil, the interior pruning on Carding Mill is still evident. They removed a number of canes from the middle of the plant. What is left is a beautiful shape with a clear interior. I have seen a video from The San Jose Municipal Rose Garden on pruning. And the woman who did the pruning shows how to prune to keep the interior clear of too many canes. She also shows how to prune the bush to make it shaped, as she called it, like a vase. My CM is free of interior 'clutter' and is shaped beautifully. The other two English types are (or were) quite tangled. The David Austin directly from David Austin, as you said, is much better cared for. Thanks for your input, andrea...See MoreYour personal experience with older Cats, kidney disease
Comments (18)i am so sorry to hear, i know i am late, but i have had problems with my boy for years. i use the stuff you put on the paws, it works great. i have had numerous non cat vets up here tell me my kids won't survive. i nurse their nondrinking problems with the special water for babies - sorry brain burp. and kitten formula. use chicken broth sometimes too. also, butter and eggs, make my little girl very happy. my boy is now 16. he lost his twin sister. oh yes, going outside is far better for them. my boy only gets sick on the weekend. I first discovered the outside with my cat years ago. he kept getting ill. it was very expensive and the food was ungodly expensive and not helping. i finally was going to take him in and have him put down. he ran out and i was exhausted after my 2nd job and my child, to do anything. cane back the next morning like nothing was wrong. my little house now has a 6 foot fence outside the chidren happily lay out all summer, 40 ft porch for when it rains. oh and shazbut - cat from 20 years ago, lived in tampa with no fence on normal food for another 9 years making him 18 when some nasty person ran him over. true it was a horrible end, but if he had not gone out, he would have died at 9....See MoreHeirloom sale, some older Austins in there
Comments (33)Hybrid vigor (heterosis) is a measure of the degree that a hybrid plant will outperform the average performance of the 2 parental lines. The theory is that the more different the 2 lines are, the stronger the heterosis. In the case of roses, the heterosis may be expressed by growing more vigorously. It is not surprising that the Austin roses express strong vigor because he has been using very diverse materials in his breeding program, making crosses between roses of the various classes of old garden roses and modern roses, which are genetically unrelated. Most of the Austin roses that I grow are own root. I also prefer own root to grafted, as the plants will usually last longer. I have seen grafted roses begin to weaken around year 12 or so; I think it may have something to do with the breakdown of the cells of the plant right at the area of the graft. I have seen others make similar comments on this site. Several have mentioned the roses at Mission San Juan Bautista in CA that are way over 100 years old, are still growing very vigorously, which I have seen as well. If I am growing a grafted plant that I am very fond of and want to have more than say 10 years, I will root a new plant and replace the grafted version with it. I do know that, for whatever reason, some roses do not grow well on their own roots, (a long forgotten Austin rose, Ellen, comes to mind); Prospero also seems to do better for me grafted than own-rooted). Based on my experience, I think that percentage that don't do well on their own roots, may be 5% or less. Heirloom Roses has been selling own root roses for over 3 decades and there are not many really popular roses, that you can't get from them as an own root plant. But my observations in my part of CA, may not hold true in all areas, especially in some of the colder areas with completely different environmental conditions. Rachel: Regarding William Morris: I have one grafted and 5 own-rooted WM rose plants and they are all doing well. But I live in an area where most everything does well and grows quickly because of our very long growing season and very bright sunlight, a consequence of our arid summers. I am growing some own-root roses that were 'stuck' in November and some are already 3 feet high! WM is no longer on patent and is no longer in the DAR rose catalog. If you are interested in WM, I may be able to help you. Please email me at tomatobreeder@hotmail.com Susan Lyell tried in the summer of 2017, to root roses at her facility near Nashville, TN. She has a business selling cut flowers (including roses and other species) which I presume is doing well. She concluded that it would take too long for her to produce own root plants in a reasonable amount of time in her climate, but intends to continue her cut flower business. She found a cooperator in Santa Ynez, CA who is going to produce roses grafted to Rosa multiflora, which Susan said would not be available for 2-3 years. It is my understand that most commercial nurseries sell grafted roses that are 2 years....See Morehoovb zone 9 sunset 23
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