A Shout out to Florida Rose Gardeners
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Comments (29)Thanks for the info, Sherry. I'll keep that in mind. My DH just finished a patio with patio blocks and I had planned to site SDLM along one edge of the patio where we (I) could enjoy her blooms and fragrance better. Fewer thorns will certainly be a plus. I'm hoping the plants I receive from Chamblees are a decent size. Sometimes they are smaller and need a bit of babying. I have ordered from them in the past, both here and in PA, and have almost always been happy. When I wasn't, they made it right. Unfortunately, ordering roses means paying big $$ for shipping :( I'll be digging out hardpan sand sometime soon to ready for the roses--I know from your blog that you've had a similar experience :) Marcia...See MoreRuth's Rose Garden at Florida Southern College
Comments (21)plj1606 et al., It is unfortunate that the campus tour guides always, without exception, get some aspect of their story wrong. It's a running joke -- what will they make up about the garden next? I complain frequently and vigorously, but it continues. So I'm not sure what the "thousand year rose" story is about; it could refer to 'Autumn Damask' which, of course, is a 2000+ year rose, so they've severely underestimated it if that's the case....See MoreFlorida Rose Gardening 101
Comments (11)cupshaped, this particular load had too much sand in it. I moaned with every pull of the rake. I fought to get sand OUT of my garden and here I was putting it back in. Oh, well... The loads are usually darker in color. With all the rain we've had, the other loads this spring were very heavy, too. Sandy or wet, rotted horse manure is a real workout. Rosy people do get excited about horse manure! Jeri, I won't tell DH about your failed brakes. He tells me every time he gets home, "The brakes held." Sherry...See MoreShout out to GGG
Comments (37)We too have State Farm and they won't cover much the costs of the damages at all. Actually, we are very unimpressed with them to say the least. Our local agent lived and grew up here, we have not heard a word from him or his office yet we called him as they have been our insurer for 10 years. We can't even put a claim in for the damages to this house. Our structural damage is "invisible" our electrical got messed up from the lightening and probably some magnetic fields in the storm. We have to cover that. We did have some structural damage, and trees fell on necessary structures and we have someone advising us on how to get things worded etc. However the estimated costs that the insurer came up with are not appropriate for Atlanta. $1,500 to fix the driveway will not even cover the cost of breaking it up and removing it here. $800 for a fence does not even cover the cost of materials, let alone labor. However, a person on another gardening forum has offered to help us. I don't even know this person and she and her husband have offered their backs to help us get things better. One of our biggest concerns now is flooding. State Farm isn't much concerned about the impact to the structural integrity of the property itself now that we have nothing: no grass, no trees, no landscaping anymore. They do not consider that "structural" even though it was all in place to save the structures from damage. The good thing is, I have 4 jobs. The bad thing is I will be leaving my volunteer job to max. one day a week now and having to reliniquish some of the other responsibilities I had at church. That is most important to me, but I have to get this stuff paid for. They offered me full-time at work recently. This afternoon I am going to tell them I'll take it. I was offered a job teaching gardening and environmental education classes at a local private school and I'll take it. My hours at the community garden can probably be increased. However that leaves little time for now to make things around here look decent, lol. But you gotta do what you gotta do, sometimes. GGG...See Moreamberroses
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