2012 Eluane's BDay, Anna d. D & the Lopsided Garden Part II
Everyone, May 7, is the celebration of Little Eluane! It's her birthday! and so to celebrate, here are more photos of her in the garden and of her Special Day scattered throughout the rest of this thread...
Eluane and Anna de Diesbach:
Eluane with the climbing roses, Viking Queen (in front) and Compassion(to the left)
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Also Eluane loves visiting one of the local nurseries (where I buy my herbs at) because they pamper her so much and make her feel so special....
Compassion blooms:
America Climbing Rose
Lincoln
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Comments (17)Thank you so much Krista! Yes, I just love Anna de Diesbach! It's so strange that here I am dreading white in my Garden and here is Penny Lane teaching me to sit down and Shut Up, lol! It is fast becoming one of my favorite roses. Tammy, once you've been involved in Agility, you will be probably like the rest of the Agility folks, ADDICTED, haha! And the dogs have sooo much fun. Life will never be the same, and no, agility dogs will not be jumping over the fence. They will always love their "Puppy School" and can immediately distinguish Puppy School from the plain and boring fence which they'll just ignore, lol! I Promise You This, lol! I'm a bit jealous that you are in Tennessee. Much more opportunities to go to several trials. Kansans have to travel very, very far to get enough trials to compete, but we've got some totally Awesome World Class competitors here. One Kansan even won 1st place in one of the International European Competitions this year. And there are others who regularly make it to World International Team competitions. Must be in the water that Kansans drink, hahaha! Eluane and I can only win through Lord-Blessed Miracles. We only compete 4-5x a year; it's all we can afford. Almost all dog agility folks in Kansas compete in other venues, not just AKC, and they will travel several hundreds of miles as well so they average about 24 trials at the very minimum per year. They also attend classes, seminars from famous handlers. I've been a freelancer/unemployed for over 2 years so we've only taken one class total, lol! So we do the best that we can and count on the Good Lord to carry us the rest of the way, haha! We do have a club membership so we can still practice on our own once a week, so that is good! But not having an instructor is a huge!!!!! problem. You really need classes to do well in agility. I have to depend on my friends in England for advice and we've already made many critical mistakes in trying to do training on our own.... Our training has been experiment after experiment... The rosette is from our Hardest Level, Excellent AKC Jumpers and the course was challenging. We're still stuck in Open though for Standard. We need 2 more wins to get to Excellent :) We also got a very late start in agility. Eluane began at 4.5 years and now she just turned 6 which is "ancient" compared to the fast younger dogs. That's like running a 42 year old compared to a dog in its prime 20 year old range so not much time left for us. But it's still so fun and rewarding and we take the Moments of Grace in our time and stride!...See More2012 Lopsided Lumpy Garden Part 5
Comments (29)HarmonyP, oh, that is sooo cute! You'll need video of Dusty too! Videos are wonderful ways to capture all the wonderful memories! What a Sweetheart Dusty is! Our beloved animals live such short lives so please take tons of photos, get video up too :D Oh, yes, I definitely agree, HarmonyP. Border Collies are not! Pet dogs, they are extremely time-demanding, very needy dogs, because their nature is to be commanded and to work with sheep all day long, to continually think and assess "on-the-field", and when you try to change and mold that out, you make a dumber animal and the best qualities of the BC will be forever ruined.... Kippy, I actually feel blessed that we are talking about Border Collies, because as you can tell, even with HarmonyP we start out with one concept then we realize and change our minds once we understand all the ramifications. Agility is extremely popular and too few people understand why the B.C. is an "endangered" breed. Kippy, I do have AKC papers- I compete in AKC, there are 2 wonderful AKC secretaries I know of, there have been some really sweet AKC judges too! but the problem is that no one realizes that AKC does endorse puppy mills and this must be stopped. If we can at least get this practice changed, what a difference this can make!! I do hope Karen will eventually change her ways and no longer allow non-stockdog folks to breed Border Collies. It takes decades to really understand and know these animals and to accurately test for the very best genes, and you always have to go back to their original roots, have strong relations with the Sheepherding community, I mean the REAL Down-to-the-Earth working folks. Only working with livestock can the Border Collie's original intelligence remain intact, and even amongst those that herd for a living, only the best should be bred, anyway. A HUGE RESPONSIBILITY. I used to think the best sports collies to only be bred (one litter at the maximum) per year to a really good stockdog and only if that agility person had national placings and had strong friendships and tested out their Border Collies with herding, but after reading about Contact Point, I understand now why the sheepherding community cannot trust us agility folks EVER! Karen's failure to give non-breeding contracts to anyone besides the stockdog community is a major failure, plus the misrepresentation of what is a working Border Collie. Once you fail to breed your generation back to the stockdog lines (one parent always! has to be a really good/sound stockdog-the other tested) you immediately lose or water down the Best genes. You cannot breed unless one proves oneself worthy of breeding by the stockdog community, you have to do real on-the-field herding, not just hobby-herding, every pup has to be neutered that goes out unless it's a working stockdog. If anyone wants a B.C. be sure you are ready for all the responsibilities- go to the B.C. Boards and ask for help, advice and for references on who is a good breeder, and promise/sign a contract to neuter. Anyone who does not ask for this contract is not a reputable breeder. I learned the hard way- Eluane was my 1st dog/my first Border Collie. The horrible breeder of Eluane is Nightshades Border Collies. Poor Eluane was so ill from all those worms and parasites!...See More2010 Lopsided Garden Part II
Comments (16)Awww, thanks so much Jim, RamblinRozez, Harold, Boxo, Carol, and Aimeekitty! Harold, we miss you and Adele! and hope and hope she is continuing to get stronger and better! I was looking at Climbing America today because I've got another very large bud that will open and it reminded me how spectacular yours and Boxo's must be looking! Like realllll climbers, whereas mine are just a few cane wannabes, lol! and yes, I'm thinking in July-August, some of your Meyer lemons must be in the works! Harold yes, I love Folklore. The scent is FANTASTIC and falls second to Mr. Lincoln. Speaking of scent, I really enjoy the honeysuckle sweetness of Cornelia and Ghislaine de Feligonde. Penny Lane smells like gardenia. My Asiatic lilies are about to start blooming too!!!! they're getting real fat and heavy so another set of lumps should be helping themselves along. Florence-inspired Compassion and Viking Queen give such pretty blooms, but I'm always missing out on Viking Queen, because being a baby band, she blooms so fast and I get up so late, I miss out on so many pretty showings, whereas Compassion is verrrrry forgiving of my late to bed, late to rise habits and always looks pretty and opens very gradually, thank goodness! Viking Queen is one prolific constant bloomer too. She is just like her namesake, a baby Viking! She just shot up a 2'2" brand new cane as well, and is trying to match the Big Boys, lol! Oh, by the way, here are my nightmare invasive gladiolus. Do not let their lively cheery little faces fool anyone! They are highly invasive in my garden. I had to transplant 50 of those things because they were taking over my entire rose bed. And now they've taken over the most barren places I could plant them at! To this day, I keep having to dig up dozens upon dozens of those things because they keep resprouting in my rosebed. Sneaky little things are too pretty to burn with a flame torch, lol!...See Morea hilarious song/pic for Boxofrox from Eluane
Comments (55)wow! that is severe pruning even more than the Serena way...it's like one/third of its original size, hee-hee! Something which I have done before...but man, I never thought you'd prune it down that much! I thought I was the only one doing that major of a lopping off... But it does like very aerated and well spaced and since your Platinum is growing so vigorously I am sure it will still end up being quite the giant...especially with all the goodies that you keep feeding your roses with. My roses are bushy monsters right now so you would definitely be hacking them down, but I just let them overgrow themselves and only hack the top parts off... I figure 1st year roses I'll just let them become one massive forest...They're so dense right now, I'd have no idea where to begin! boy, I'm such a chicken-lazy one... I hate to lose that wonderful bushiness and have let my roses become fat, wide and massive......See More
jim1961 / Central Pennsylvania / Zone 6
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Krista_5NY
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11 years agolast modified: 9 years agoThank you so much everyone for your kind words about the Lopsided Garden, and most of all, Eluane sends everyone puppy kisses for wishing her a happy Birthday...She really is quite the princess! Instead of eating her cake with one big gulp like most dogs, she nibbled first with the provolone cheese hearts and the tomatoes at the rim. Next she tried to nibble at the top, not wanting to ding up my delicate china plate. She still couldn't get to the cake, so I ended up slicing the cake into little wedges all of which she polished off so daintily, haha!
Nick, about the "Italian Cafe" outings. Krista, thank you-- also I have a question, how often does your Anna bloom? Krista, she is as fragrant as she is beautiful, yours and my kind-of-rose :D Lesley, oh, yes, Eluane is the PERFECT garden dog. She loves accompanying me, very gentle and careful with plants. She also gets real excited to see rose packages arrive at the doorway too, lol!Jim, it's great to see Baby Gunnar, and Baby G is such a Blessed Lucky boy to have you and Sue as his grandparents. Seil, oh I looove seeing puppies, so adorable! Renee, thanks so much for the compliments about the photography; I have a long ways to go and I also badly need a closeup lens...My eyesight is also deteriorating as well. Only until it's on the computer screen can I tell if there's any blur, so I actually have to multi-shoot, because many end up blurry. Renee, I forgot to mention in previous threads that BOTH! Viking Queen and Compassion are Florence-inspired. I wanted both roses after seeing Florence's gorgeous blooms.Everyone here are some more photos I took, the ones I forgot to include, and one new rose plant, Coronado HT.
Climbing America:
Dwarf Mountain Laurel:
Viking Queen Climber (forgot to show individual blooms):
Viking Queen, even though it's a "modern" rose still has the bloom form of an OGR, which I'm crazy about.
More HT form of Viking Queen:
Paso Doble: Just like the name a vivid orangish/scarlet red.
Compassion HT Climber:
Nepata- Walker's Low:
Coronado HT: I'm not a fan of the ruffled petals sort of look, but every brand new rose deserves its own special highlight, and at least Coronado's color reminds me so much of Chicago Peace. Very bright and intense Flamingo/Las Vegas Pink, haha!
Krista_5NY
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11 years agolast modified: 9 years agoThank you Krista for your kind words! and also about the info about Anna. I was thinking it is the once every 2 months type of bloomer but wasn't for sure yet. I just hope she blooms more frequently than Cornelia, haha! Cornelia is pretty much a once-bloomer with scattered itsy bitsy handful of flowere here and there. But Cornelia is young (just starting her 3rd year in my garden- but what GORGEOUS spring displays) and Anna is even younger so we will have to wait and see, lol!
I am predicting Anna will bloom once in Spring, once in Summer and once in Late fall. Does this sound right? Not exactly the once-a-month bloom of a Modern HT or a modern tea like Clementina Carbonieri. CC by the way is working on its 2nd flush. It's just starting its 2nd year in my garden so I'm very pleased. Okie is doing great and working on its 2nd flush too! Last year it was a once-bloomer with only 2 blooms. It's still not exactly prolific, but at least it does the expected once-a-month.
I also forgot to put up one more Lincoln bloom but I might as well do so now, to wish all mothers a Happy Mother's Day. Once summer drought hits, there will be less classical Lincoln spirals. Mostly pouffy, ruffles (better than Coronado's but still pouffy) because of our heat and sun angles.
Happy Mother's Day, everyone!! Puppy Eluane needs to wish her Mama a Happy Mother's Day, too, but as I told Jim, every day she would like to be a Daughter Day instead, lol! But she deserves it, she is so lovable :D
jim1961 / Central Pennsylvania / Zone 6
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jim1961 / Central Pennsylvania / Zone 6