Happy Birthday Dearest Ann!!!!

Have the happiest of days with lots of presents and cake!!!

You ARE the best!!!

Deb :o))

Happy Birthday Ann!

Come and visit us again soon.

Trish & Paul

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I hope Larry remembers that tomorrow is Dec. 1, not Nov. 31.

Have a wonderful day.

Barbara

Happy Birthday Ann! Hope your day is wonderful.
Maybe we will get some decent rain this weekend, I know we both could use it. :)

Ann, Happy Birthday. Here's a memory for you.
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Love,
Carla

Happy birthday, O Knowledgeable One. You're one incredible and wonderful resource and I wish you the very best! See you at Hearst Castle. Here's Phillips and Rix' Pink China Climber from Sacramento Historic Rose Garden:
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Sue

Wishing you days of joy and gentility, Ann. Happy Happy
Birthday!

Happy Birthday Ann! Thanks for all of insightful help. Here is a bouquet of Alpine Sunset for you:

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Have a great birthday, Ann! Hope you have a great, RRD-free year, no late freezes, and perfect conditions for all your garden.

--Ron

Anne, happy birthday! Another Scorpio.....

Thanks for being here and passing on all your rose knowledge.

Have a great Birthday, Ann. I wish you many happy returns of this day, perfect weather and plenty of roses.
Olga

Hope I'm not too late! Skidding in with very best wishes for a rosie 2008 ahead.
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Jeri Jennings

Happy Birthday to a lady I truly admire. Who else but you would have introduced me to the delights of Safrano?
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Ann, I hope your day was very happy and that you and Larry celebrated it in style. Best wishes for the coming year,

Anne

One very, very deserved happy birthday! I hope you'll have one heck of a good birthday weekend. Fantastic Rose Hybridizers Association article, by the way (really useful info), and may your next rose year be devoid of devastating holiday freezes, killer droughts, hailstorms, clouds of locusts and all other assorted maladies!

Stefan

Hope it's a very happy birthday, Ann. Thank you so much for all your wonderful help and information. You are the best of the best!

Lois in Pa

Thank you all for the lovely wishes and flowers.
We've seen snow on the high mountains (up above 4000 feet, 3000' above us) and have a few buds holding on, but they won't open.
Different this year is the bird makeup of the rose beds in front of the house. We have Blue Jays by the dozen and I think they're going after rose hips and they're burying some of the hips. The Cardinals and Mocking Birds are their usual showy selves and at dusk there are hundreds of small gray-brown birds eating weed seeds (and a few grass seeds).
Perhaps the fall drought has one or two side effects that are less bad: not that much really new growth for those lower 20's temps to kill, and it really seems to have set fall fungal problems back.
Some of the roses' leaves look so good, that there are great hopes for the next years for all of us.
Love,
Ann

Whoops! I'm late. Anyway,
Ann, happy birthday! I hope it was a good one. I value your knowledge highly, and I love your willingness to share it with the rest of us on the forum. Thank you. I hope you have a very good year ahead, in the garden and out of it, and will look forward, as always, to what you have to say. I love your birds! Very best wishes,
Melissa

I know I speak for more than myself when I tell you that I appreciate that you give so generously here on the forum. Whether it's RRD, or some little known factoid, or a new piece of research, we all are a bit richer with you here.

I hope your birthday was something to remember.

Blessings,
Connie

Glendora
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I'm (always) late, too! Ann, I wish you an Happy Happy birthday :o)

The Bourbon 'Catherine Guillot' is my little present for you :0)
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Maurizio

This is beyond late but with a little blush and a big smile, hope you're having a splendid birthday and blessings to all those roses, the end of RRD. a fabulous spring and more fun at HRF conference. See you in CA!
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Oooops. I'm sorry to be late to the party, Ann. Joe and I and the pugs send you fondest wishes for the next year and as a birthday gift we'll make sure to do rain dances but avoid the ice storm dances

Ann, thanks so much for the rose wisdom you spread; I've learned so much from your postings.

I hope you have a wonderful birthday and as my small contribution, here is perle d'or, one of my favorite roses.

Its beauty is displayed through its generosity of bloom and subtlety of color, its toughness and grace of form.

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Happy Birthday, dear rose expert!

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Golden Celebration

Happy Birthday Ann and I wish you should drive far, far away to see roses having sign of RRD.

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(Buff Beauty)

Happy birthday Ann. I hope your day and all the days surrounding it are full of every joy.

Jerome

So sorry to miss your birthday. I was away. I hope you had a wonderful celebration.

Rosefolly

OOOPS Sorry Happy Birthday!
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agnes

I'm late too but still wanted to wish you a happy birthday Ann!

Happy Birthday to a fellow tea hugger!

Here's Anna de Diebach, wish it was scratch and sniff:

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Linda