In zone 5, I'm sure you can grow all the roses in the Buck series. As well, look for own-root roses, own-root roses are more hardier than grafted roses in my zone 2 experience. Sharon

Rather than one person/household getting one generator on their own, it seems to me to make sense for half a dozen near neighbours to get a somewhat larger one together ... which would mean that it would be probable that at least one of the six would have a place to store it. Usually when there's a prolonged power outage, at least some of the people concerned would not be going to work and could haul it around from house to house to plug in for some power - four hours or so of the 24 (or, if four owners, six hours per household). If someone moves away or does not wish to continue to participate, either the others of the crew have a waiting list, or go looking for a replacement at the time ... or kick in enough cash each to buy out the departing person's share. A number of local farmers bought a generator that they drive from the tractor, and have a switch-over at their service pole, so that they can disengage the power from the line and plug it in to the generator hook-up. That would make sense, for when I went from house to house generating in a power outage in this area (ice storm() over 30 years ago, many wanted me to hook into the furnace ... but I dared not do that, for most are hooked directly into the main service box, and if we disengaged the furnace switch, then put clamps on the line to the furnace ... and for some reason the switch back to the line got engaged ... there's no way that I want to send power back out into a line that hydro service guys understand to be dead! People get killed, that way! But if the householders could disconnect from the line, and hook easily into the generator, they could use furnace, etc. as well ... and the larger generator that several could buy when working together would allow this (not blow out a smaller generator when they tried to overload it). More rain last evening - to cause more trouble for my already blighted tomatoes! ole joyful

Kat, some hospitals have designated Cancer Clinics attached to them. If you have cancer in Windsor you go to the Windsor Cancer Clinic at Windsor Regional Hospital which has all the equipment needed to treat cancer. All the oncologists work out of there too. You also go back there for your testing to see after your treatments have finished. The cancer centres also provide a lot of help and support for people who have gone through cancer treatments. People donate lots of money to the Cancer Centre so peole can receive prothesies, wigs. My sister called me up a few weeks ago to say she had a new "boob" and she was so thrilled. They even fitted her with a few new bras that they gave to her free too. Also there are a few hospital rooms for cancer patients who have long stays in the hopsital that have been decorated so they don't look like hospital rooms. Lots of nice furniture, lighting, wallpaper and pictures. My friend's elderly Mom fell and broke her leg 2 weeks ago at a mall in Michigan. My friend was shocked how every little thing that was used on her mom at the hospital for the few hours she was there was itemized. We don't have that here. You won't get charged for how many bandages you used, etc. Although some things that were given free before like support stockings you will be charged for but you have the option to decline them. I also forgot to mention that in the 2 hospitals we have in Windsor they are designated for certain things. One has the Kidney Dialysis Centre. One hospital has the cancer centre, pediatrics and neo natal and all births are done there. I can't remember which one has the trama centre. We had 3 hospitals not too long ago but Hotel Dieu and Salvation Army Grace Hospital joined together and Grace was closed down and everything moved over to Hotel Dieu which at one time was a Catholic Hospital run by the Sisters of St. Joseph. Anne

Dear Pat I used to have a little cottage in England, built in the 1830s, it was tied to a manor house and used to belong to the gardener. I planted climbing roses and ramblers against the walls (Albertine, Gloire de Dijon, Felicite and Perpetue) with no trellis. I tied the stems in low down onto anything available (drainpipe etc.) or put in a eyelet fixing(a screw with a ring instead of a head, I can't remember what they are called officially) using a masonry drill and a wall plug. I didn't encourage them to flower at low level because I had garden beds in front. At about six foot and up, when they started bushing out (or to be frank, going mad)I put eyelets in with steel rope (not very thick, about 1/8 inch) going horizontally across the wall. The rope was about 15 or 20 foot long, with one fixing on each end (you could thread it through more eyelets for a longer length) and a tension screw to tighten it. I put in about four on each wall, a foot or more apart. This was enough to keep the plants back against the wall and took them to the height of the second floor windows - you could add as many as you needed to go higher. Mine were combined with jasmin, honeysuckle, and clematis montana, which twirled around the wires of their own accord and helped keep the roses back: I didn't really have to tie them in (this presumably works better for ramblers than well behaved climbers). In late Spring the whole house was covered in flowers and was very beautiful; in early winter I used a ladder and garden shears to "prune" the whole lot back close to the wall. They only took about three years to establish. I would put silicon around the fixings to stop any water getting in. I have seen similar done rather more neatly and on a much larger scale on the cottages in Windsor Great Park (around Windsor castle). By the way, I read your page, do you have much problem with snails in Tennessee? They love to hide up behind the roses then come out to eat up your lupins and delphiniums... to the extent that I gave up on both! Enjoy planting your roses. Susan