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Comments (2)HD roses are meant to be bought immediately. People in charge of the nursery spend their time at the cash register. It is really sad and bad business. And they are not doing well in this area, laying off folks. It's no wonder why. I am not familiar with Hotel California. Love to see pictures when it blooms. Kathy...See MoreQuestion about found roses
Comments (10)The official name for the rose inventory is "The Call for Roses" but in the inventory groups we've been calling it the Antique Roadshow for Roses because then the public will understand that's it like the TV show. The first summer was devoted to training at the Uppsala University Botanic Garden, an experimental garden at the Agricultural University and a few private gardens. In the Uppland province where I live we started with 25 volunteers but after five years we are five left in the Uppsala region. Volunteers from Stockholm formed their own group so as not to have to travel so far and be closer to the roses in their neighbourhoods. Several participants were professionals who only wanted to learn about roses and dropped out of the program after the training, others moved. The following seasons we decided on where to go and picked places we thought would be interesting for various reasons, about 4 each summer. Uppsala is the largest city in Uppland so we had the first "show" there and advertised in the local papers and local radio. Visitors were asked to bring a long shoot, with thorns, a bud, an open flower and if possible, one of last year's hips, old pictures of the bush or shrub if there are any. The main attraction at the first occasion was the most famous rose expert in Sweden, also one of the leaders of this inventory. Hundreds of people showed up, it was quite hysterical and we were not well organized. We had set up tables with two volunteers at each and thought that people would sedately go to any of the tables with their roses. But most people wanted only to talk to Lars-e Gustavsson and ignored the rest of us. We had to be stern. Most visitors had only common varieties and Lars-Ãke could not be bothered with all the Maidens's Blush, Double White and Rosa alba Maxima. He had to concentrate on the more difficult roses. POM had printed forms for people to fill in, basic info such as their name and address, the location of the rose if not in their own garden. These forms were distributed at a table at the gate and people were helped to fill in as much as they knew about the rose. The first edition of the forms was too detailed and took far too long to fill in. We now use a shorter version without every detail of sepals, serrated leaves and glands, etc. We note them if necessary only. Each volunteer has his own code to put on every form with the date and place of the meeting with the informant. One such reads MAE-2009-08-13-01. MAE is myself and that day I was at a place on the Baltic coast in the garden of Mrs Ingrid P to look closer at a rose she'd brought to a show earlier that day. It is a burgundy red climbing rose planted by her father-in-law in the late 40ies. We haven't been able to put a name to it but hopefully the people at the rosarium will. 01 means that it was the first rose I documented in that garden. If Mrs P had had more roses they would have been 02, 03 etc. The original form is sent to POM in Helsingborg, a copy kept by the investigator. The next tables were for sorting the roses into easy and difficult roses. People with the most common kinds were sent off happily with a beautiful post card with printed information about their rose. We have a set of cards with all the most common varieties in Sweden: Alba Maxima, Minette, Rosa majalis Foecundissima (the double cinnamon rose), R. spinosissima Plena, Blush Damask, R. francofurtana Agatha and Maiden's Blush. The absolute majority of presented roses were one of these varieties. Later when only two or three of us were out on our own we would whisper among ourselves that we hoped the next rose would be a Maxima or some other wellknown rose. Gallicas are difficult because there is an enormous variety of them in this country. Modern roses are too difficult and often too young to be included in this project. People will often have a hazy idea of the real age of a rose they've always called "Granny's rose". We keep a set of the most comprehensive Swedish rose books and show people pictures of their roses if we can find it. Some of us have many roses and if we're lucky we grow the rose ourselves. We do not dismiss all common roses, if there is an interesting history connected with the rose we write it down in detail. Some of the stories will be included in an anthology after the close of the project. People have been encouraged to submit more details afterwards because it is not easy to remember everything at once. Some also send in old family photos with the rose in the background. If a rose seems interesting and the owner has brought too little material we visit their gardens to dig up suckers or take cuttings. Both suckers and cuttings are sent to Helsingborg, suckers to be planted, cuttings to be rooted or budded by a specialist. I have sent only one rose to be budded, an HP. The most troublesome part for me has been to have to go again to a garden and ask to have a new sucker a year after the first visit because the plant at the trial field died. Distances are long here and I don't drive so I have to ask my husband to take me to the coast soon for a particular rose. All volunteers are invited to a weekend meeting in the fall at a conference center in the middle of Sweden so it's not too far for most people. Those from the far north have to fly though. All costs are met by POM. The next meeting will be October 30-31 and I look forward to it. All groups present their most interesting finds and the leaders give us the latest info on the whole program. Here is a link that might be useful: The Swedish POM rose inventory...See MoreWhat interesting things have you lost or found while digging?
Comments (76)A house I formerly lived in was an early nineteenth-century stone farmhouse. When my housemates were breaking ground for an extensive vegetable garden, they found three tombstones scattered in an old field on the property - a mother's and father's, presumably, and a much smaller stone for a child. These were almost certainly marking the grave sites of the original residents. I can't remember if the incriptions were legible or what they might have been. The tombstones were the very thin ones typical of very old graveyards in my area. They gave the stones place of honor in the main room of the farmhouse near its hearth. It sounds macabre to some, I suppose, but we all felt like they kind of belonged there, and that the family they belonged to became a kind of presence in the house once again. I've long lost contact with those housemates but did learn that they moved on. I do hope that the tombstones remained on the property or were taken to a local historical society. cranebill...See MoreLost (or stolen) and Found
Comments (79)Good question HH :). As to jewels....I found a pretty little pearl broach (antique) in a townhouse we purchased a few years ago. I still have it...they were drug dealers who were thrown out by the PO and they and the other six people who roomed in the place trashed an already trashed place. It took a six person cleaning crew a week to clean it up including all of the broken glass (because why not break the windows before you go right?). I don't care if it was the druggies grandmothers broach...karma left it in the place and I wasn't hunting down drug dealers. So that's a good and bad story. My other townhouse is more fun. We purchased within a few hours of listing despite the place being overpriced because I wrote the contract at asking price or bank approved appraised value, which ever was the lesser knowing that it would appraise about fifty grand lower than our offer. That man thought he was so smart lol he had his brother do the appraisal :). But it was not a huge town...people knew of the relationship so the bank rejected the appraisal and did another, coming in exactly where I said it would. He tried to get out if the contract so we sued for breach...ugly ugly but we won of course. So out if bitterness I guess he removed the horrific chandelier from the dining room which he said his wife carried on her lap on the plane from a castle in Hungary. I don't know why she bothered because you can buy them all day long at lows for about 22 bucks but whatever....it saved the price of removing it from our costs lol. They also left the new fridge and washer and dryer (not addressed in the contract either way). They didn't have time to take them because we had forced closing before they started packing the day prior to moving (they thought that we would give up). They came back two months later saying their kids wanted them for their new house so they would go ahead and take them now. I laughed and suggested they try a better storage facility and closed the door. Those appliances didn't come close to our legal fees and weren't going anywhere. Then there is this house....we purchased lock, stock and barrel. Not only did they bake a quiche and leave it in the fridge with juice, coffee and creamer but they left a dozen roses in a silver vase that belonged to the original owner on the dining room table with two glasses, a cheese plate and a bottle of wine. They also left a toy on the table for our son and a few others were hidden around the house for him. The house was spotless with freshly made beds and fully stocked bathrooms. If I ever buy a house again I'm going to pay someone to do that for me again lol. It was heaven!!!!...See Morearcy_gw
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