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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 MoreLost leaves found; what to do?
Comments (4)Hi Patty, Woo hoo! Nothing like finding something useful during the hottest and most miserable gardening month of the year. To finish them, leave them in the bags or put them in new bags if the current bags are already falling apart themselves. Poke or cut plenty of air holes, add a little moisture. You can add the UCGs if you wish or you can add a little finished compost from the bottom of your current compost pile. If you want, you can add a little sugar (table sugar, brown sugar or dry molasses from the feed store...it is all sugar) because sugar increases microbial activity. With the chopped leaves, some moisture, some air from the air holes and the microbial activity from the UCGs, a little compost (a handful a bag would be sufficient) or a little sugar (a handful a bag), you should see pretty rapid decomposition....in a matter of a few weeks. If some of the leaves were not chopped or shredded, they will break down much more slowly and could take another 6 to 18 months to break down. If you have a lawn mower with a grasscatcher, you could pour out the non-chopped leaves on the ground, chop them with the mower, catch them with the grasscatcher and put them back into the bags. When I chop/shred leaves in the fall and put them in bags with some moisture and holes poked in the bags for air, I have leaf mold by spring. As hot as it is now, as long as the bags have air holes and moisture inside, you should get decomposition by October. If you're able and it isn't too much trouble, picking up each bag about once a week and turning it over will stir up the leaves a little and help them decompose faster. Note: If snakes are a problem in your yard, I wouldn't bother turning over the bags because it wouldn't be worth risking a snakebite. Happy leaf composting! Dawn...See MoreLost and Found Story
Comments (11)My Nephew lost his wedding ring he thought at work in the logwoods. He went back several times but had no luck. He would not tell anyone that he lost it because he felt so bad about it. About 6 month later his step mother found a ring in my sister's driveway next to the street. That street is used by school kids going back and to school. Well noone clamed it at my sister's but her granddaughter had a fit over the ring and it fit her great so it became hers. About two weeks later my nephew was talking to her and seen the ring on hand, she noticed that he kept looking at her hand but did not say anything. Finely he said "Anita why are you wearing my ring"? She told him that it was her ring that was given to her for her birthday. He told her if it was his it would have a nick in the band where he got it pinched so She took it of and sue enough there was the pinch place . She told him about how Aunt Mickey found the ring and gave it to her for her birthday. So she handed it to him but he felt so bad to take her birthday present, she told him he had to take it because it meant more to her knowing that it was back where it belonged. Him and her have always been very close because both came from a broke-up home, she always said that Jody was her brother although they are only first cousins. He parks his truck in my sister's yard every day to catch someone else to work. He said he knew he had put the ring in his pocket when he went to check the oil in the truck but thought he lost it in the woods where he had dropped some bolts in is pocket. Jody went to his Dad's and ask his step mother why did she give his wedding ring away, of course she had no ideal what he was talking about. They had a good laugh. When he went home at supper that night he did everything he could to cause his wife to notice that he had on his ring but she never noticed it, finely he told her the whole story . She said she did not know that he had lost the ring , she just thought he had pulled it of because of having to run the chainsaw so much. She told him " I guess you know that means that you can never get rid of me because you can not even through you ring away without it coming back so you are stuck with me"...See MoreHow picky are you about hotel room decor?
Comments (49)I find it interesting that so many people prefer an airbnb over hotel for vacation. We go to Cape Cod for a week in the summer and we do rent a house there. But that's because we bring the whole family (college age son, daughter, her hubby, their 2 small kids, and sometimes inlaws). Hotel rooms for everyone would be out of the budget. But when it's just hubby and I vacationing, I want a hotel/resort with amenities. I don't want to make my bed, or clean the bathroom, and certainly don't want to cook/cleanup. I want to act like the princess I was meant to be ;-) Decor does matter but I wouldn't rule out a hotel/resort in a good location with great service and amenities solely based on decor. For example, our favorite place in Mexico is an all inclusive resort with a beautiful beach, amazing service, great drinks, decent enough food and it's small and quiet (no pool games, no beach games, no loud groups). The rooms are definitely dated, but they're clean and large and offer wonderful views of the beach and gulf. I wouldn't mind if they updated the decor of the rooms, but I worry they will then raise the prices! It's always a trade off, I guess....See Morearcy_gw
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