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Wish we had some folks from down under on this list!

18 years ago

I wish we had some Australians or New Zealanders on this list! I'd love to see some spring postings. (March seems a long ways away...)

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jain
18 years ago
hey i am still blooming away, with many more to come! no time to upload the pics i took this afternoon but i have blazing sunrise, champagne encore, clarence, bathsheba comes, i repeat, porcelain frills, autumn stripes, renown, billionaire, summer tsunami and sugar blues blooming, buds almost ready on daughter of stars, mariposa skies and do it again.
laurief_gw
18 years ago
We do have at least one Aussie here. Jan's around here somewhere.
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Hi Jerome, I love, love love, and adore "Lamarque", The foliage is awesome, and it thrives here with no spraying in the S.F. Bay area. Thomasvile "Lamarque" has smaller blooms than the California form. I'm one of the rare few who doesn't love the scent of J.D. it is too much like overly ripe bananas for my tastes. Mac mildews badly where I live, far more than Lamarque. I bought Blush Noisette on the advice of a neighbor and wished I hadn't for in my opinion it is the plainest of all the pink Noisettes. I much prefer the rose that Rogue valley sells as Champneys Pink Cluster" for the individual blooms are prettier, and the foliage is more attractive. Just my opinion after growing both. You might well become another Blush Noisette fan. pink and yellow Teas. One of my favorite pink Tea roses is "Mme Berkeley" which grows to be c. 8 feet tall here, with fantastic starry blooms. In cool months it has salmon hues near its center. "Souvenir de la Pierre Notting" has larger yellow blooms, which darken to medium yellow after being in a vase a day or two. On November 19th both have 100% buds and blooms and are waxing towards a full flush. Most of our Tea roses are waning in bloom this late in the season. I haven't found that roses are more strongly scented in England, when I was there. According to Greg L. one must have the proper olfactory receptors to detect a scent of a type of rose. This is why some persons can smell Gallica roses but not Old Garden Tea roses. Lucky for me, I can smell Tea roses. white Teas, China I had to leave "Ducher" behind for it mildews terribly in our climate. . I recently bought two Westside Road Cream Tea" and heartily praise them. I bought them in July and they still have clean foliage. The blooms have a bit more substance than Mme. Alfred Carriere, and to my nose, far more fragrance. They grow to be small plants for a Tea, only c. 4 feet tall. I prefer the blooms of Westside Road Cream Tea to those of Ducher or Mac. If I could cross them with the foliage of Lamarque" I'd have a perfect climbing white Rose. I do dream of such. Best wishes, Lux.
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There are some neat ideas under theme parties. You could make tea and little sandwiches and desserts for food, but the other ideas under theme parties could be fun :) I found a bunch of theme party ideas, when I was looking on the internet for fairy garden ideas. I want to put in a fairy garden for my nieces, but not a miniature one, a fun area with flowers, where they can dress up and be the fairies. While I was looking, I kept finding fairy garden party ideas. How to make fairy wings and wands, how to pin the wand on the fairy, etc. They have similar ideas for Christmas (pin the nose on the Rudolph) and other themes. It might give you some neat ideas for decorations, crafts, games etc. and then tea or juice/punch served in cute cups with little sandwiches and desserts could be the food. Mom and I used to go to a tea room that had some parties for little girls. They had a trunk full of old hats, gloves, boas, etc. for the girls to dress up in, while they had tea. They even served bubble gum tea LOL! The girls seemed to have a lot of fun and I'm sure there were some cute pictures from those parties. I don't know if you saw it, but there were some themes for tea in an earlier post...Peter Rabbit tea party, Alice in Wonderland, Anne of Green Gables, etc. It sounds like fun and I hope your daughter has a great birthday party :)
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iris_gal
18 years ago
This link has some photos by Colleen Modra in Australia.
Maybe last month had more of her pics?
Just change nov in the link to oct.

Here is a link that might be useful: http://www.hort.net/lists/iris-photos/nov05/maillist.html
Jalos
18 years ago
I have uploaded 2 pics yesterday.
I have more pictures to come, but they have to be added tot the list before I can upload them, I already have sent a mail with names of Irisses to add.
But how long does it approximately take before they add the names to the list?
I have for example 'Sun's Up and 'Rose Quest' to come...
ymeador
18 years ago
Way to go Jain! You know you need to keep a list of your iris that rebloom and send in to the reblooming iris recorder, they are always looking for reports of rebloom, and it sounds like you have a lot of them doing just that!

Yvette
Sparaxis
18 years ago
I will post some photos when I get some time - maybe in that after Christmas lull. I work full time and tend my garden as much as possible. Our season started fairly early with the dwarf beardeds blooming ahead of normal, but a cold snap slowed them down. The talls also started reasonably early so there was plenty of bloom for the early show despite the rains. rains continued and the tall beardeds were a wash out, but I am now enjoying my siberians and spurias (and roses which are doing extremely well this year).
My Pacific Coast irises started early and finished late. In fact Istill have some in bloom. My second generation crosses have given me some lovely colour patterns, and beautiful wide, frilled blooms. Also they seem to be setting far more seed this year than other years, while the beardeds have been most disappointing in that department. Maybe that should tell me something?
Japanese iris are just starting, but I only have a few. Iris versicolour will bloom for some time yet, carrying the season well past Christmas, and then I may be lucky enough to see some re-bloom after such a wet season.
Cheers, Jan in Aus, where summer has started but feels like winter.

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