Hi Carol: I challenge you and others to finish our internationally acclaimed novel, using roses' name, entitled "When we are bad, and roses are good". See the below: â¢Posted by dove_song WA State Z 6b (My Page) on Wed, Aug 1, 12 at 8:09 ...some MOONLIGHT PASSIONATE KISSES. ST. PATRICK's HEART 'N' SOUL was ALL ABLAZE with anger at THE KNIGHT's and the MERMAID's MONKEY BUSINESS. CHANTILLY LACE had believed she had found TRUE LOVE with THE KNIGHT, But his FLAGRANT, OUTRAGEOUS behaviour with THE MERMAID would break her HOPEFUL HEART. :( â¢Posted by Strawberryhill 5a (My Page) on ST PATRICK invoked the help of king NEPTUNE, who sent a BLASTOFF of cold water jet into the BLUE OCEAN. This froze the knight's ass, so he had to jumped on his boat to continue with the journey. â¢Posted by dove_song WA State Z 6b (My Page) on Unfortunately for him, THE KNIGHT's boat ran into an ICEBERG thus thwarting his journey. In the meantime ST. PATRICK's sailboat was heading out into the BLUE OCEAN FULL SAIL... ST. PATRICK had a HEART O' GOLD, but he was weary of life's hard knocks to him and to those he loved. Therefore he decided to sail to FAIREST CAPE which was well known for it's EASY GOING lifestyle. Upon his arrival at FAIREST CAPE he was greeted by ... â¢Posted by WinterCat z10 (My Page) on ... a BLONDE BOMBSHELL with a BLACK HEART and a penchant for the use of BLACK MAGIC. "Oh! a HELPING HAND just at the right MOMENT IN TIME!" cried the TEMPTRESS. "The CHOCOLATE PRINCE is after me! He wants my HOT CHOCOLATE SECRET RECIPE! Quick! Please let me into your MERCEDES! He's CLOSE UP behind us!" "So much for EASY GOING lifestyle," mumbled ST. PATRICK, but how could he abandon a BLUSHING DAMSEL in distress to her fate? "Hop in LADY! Let's go!" "You're a saint!" sighed the BLONDE BOMBSHELL. "Don't BUTTER ME UP" replied St. Patrick. "What I need is a break from it all. Besides I'm thirsty. You wouldn't have any of that famous HOT CHOCOLATE left, have you? Even some MILKY TEA would do". "I've got SOMETHING ELSE that's much better. A real SURPRISE! Close your eyes", whispered she. ST. PATRICK closed his eyes and ... â¢Posted by Strawberryhill 5a Chicagoland (My Page) on Sun, Aug 5, 12 at 9:45 The BLONDE BOMBSHELL stuffed a GOLDEN DELIGHT into ST. PATRICK's mouth. It tastes so GOLDEN DELICIOUS to him, that he kept eating until he exploded into GOLDEN BUDDHA. Thank God that his entourage of the 7 dwarfs came to the rescue, running on their CUTIE PIE little legs. They are: BASHFUL, DOC, DOPEY, HAPPY, SLEEPY, SNEEZY, and GRUMPY. The dwarfs carried the bloated ST. PATRICK onto his boat. The 7 heroic dwarfs steered the boat toward the ICEBERG to rescue THE KNIGHT, whose YELLOW SUBMARINE got jammed. Here is a link that might be useful: Our novel using Roses' names This post was...

I have 3 Mermaids and love her. She is definitely a thorn meister and will reach out and grab you if you venture too close to her claws. But I agree on the hardiness issue. Zone 5 would be a stretch. Try looking at some rugosas. They are plenty thorny (will sucker happily too, to make an impenetrable thicket!) and cold hardy. Also many of them tolerate shade quite well. No lack of fragrance either. Not all rebloom however. If you want yellow, perhaps Agnes. Nova Zembla is a rugosa climber. Such a pale pink that it looks white. Rosa rugosa alba is a very beautiful single that repeats. Besides checking Help Me Find you might want to peruse Pickerings website as although they aren't shipping any more this season the rugosa page is chocked full of info and will allow you to compare a good selection of rugosas. Sweetbriars (eglantines) are another possibilty. Cold tolerant, shade tolerant, and prickly as all get out. Another class that is an enthusiatic thicket-former. Not that many are repeat-bloomers. The rambler Rambling Rector is reputedly very thorny. He is supposed to be highly shade tolerant. White flowers but only a once-bloomer. I'm not sure of his cold tolerance as HMF shows just the 6b to 9b default but there is at least 1 garden listed as growing him in zone 5. Other ramblers would be a possiblity. Some of the species roses might fit the bill. I'd suggest R. woodsii ultramontana--its a beast!! and highly fragrant to boot--but it is definitely pink. HMF says height of 39", but think again on that, it gets BIG. I saw a monster sized one at Eurodesert. Ain't nobody or nuthin' passing through that jungle.;) It likes cold places too. Melissa

I've got a couple of white irises I'll dig up for you Rosalinda...I also have diablo ninebark but it doesn't appear to have any shoots off of it. Can you root it? Hilde, I might have a couple of unknown varieties of phlox. I've got several but the tags faded so I don't remember which is which until they bloom. Brenda, I've got your plants already to go. The galardia looks a little wilty but I got plenty of root so hopefully it perks up. If not, I'll get you some more. Tauna, I've got bee balm set aside for you. Is anyone looking for any particular Iris? I've got so many now, and most are in bloom but it seems most years people don't end up taking them. If anyone is looking for any specific colors/varieties, let me know.

rosy, I started out with netting for all the reasons given above. I already had a split rail fence and just planted the posts to line up with it. My situation may have been different because they habitually used my secluded "back forty" to sleep and have their babies. It wasn't a problem until I actually wanted to clear it out and plant things down there. I didn't use the bags with the netting as I wanted it to be invisible. Well, it was invisible to the deer as well as they just jumped right through it. Then I put up metal fencing which they also jumped through breaking all my wooden posts. So I put up a double metal fence with the bags. Sorry if they're not aesthetically pleasing, but I know they worked on preventing them coming onto my upper lever last year before I invested in the water scarecrow and finally put up a decorative fence there.. Anyway, I couldn't face having to replace the wooden posts a THIRD time. Of course, they found the three areas I didn't think they could get to, so they now have metal fencing. You may not have these issues because they haven't discovered your house yet. A hedge also works. I have that where my fence is only 6" high and they won't breach it as they can't jump high AND wide.