I used blood meal & bone meal for years, until the neighbors labrador retriever dug up my newly planted perennials. I called the neighbor and she said well...........that's what happened! You used blood meal and bone meal! I told her "I" didn't have a dog! There is a leash law and I would appreciate if her dog were not running loose. :0( Found one of that neighbors chickens in my yard a couple of weeks ago; I called her and she said she didn't want it back. She's a bad pet owner! It's not the pets fault it's in your yard digging up plants.

mehearty, I can't say one way or the other about the JBs, as so far I have only noticed a handful in my yard the last 2 years. Hope it stays that way! GGG, I will have to check over there and see what they say. I would not want to be the one to "lead you astray"! Annette, they have some thorns, but not nearly as bad as some of my other roses. Yesteray and last night was really telling. We had rain all day, a nice soaking rain. But then about 5 PM the sky got so dark the solar garden lights came on and so did out dusk to dawn light. Then the rain and wind came. The rain was literally in sheets. There were tree leaves all over the lawn from the wind. It lasted about 10-15 minutes at the most and we got over a 1/4 inch of rain in that time. Tonight when I went out and looked at SS she was looking almost the same as last night when I took the picture. More buds had opened today and some spent bloom petals were on the ground but the bush had pretty much held it's shape. Many of my other bushes were really drooping tonight.

Jwst reaarranging my roses.. I actually have the easy elegance sun rise sunset (zone 4) and Coubert de Blanc also.. (zone 2). I hate to just toss them.. If anyone wants to come and get them, ie dig. Just let me know! I live in Plymouth Here is a link that might be useful: Coutert d Blanc

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