Grantgarden, your rose reminds me of one my grandfather had growing in his garden, called Nurse Edith Cavell. It is a very old polyantha rose dating back to 1917, and was named for a nurse executed during WW1. Hope this is of help to you.

Shot......Thank you very much !!!....I'm going to do my very best to make sure these blues are very happy living here...sounds like we needed them here much earlier.....my hubby's tomatoes almost got destroyed by the worms...i many times hand picked the worms off because we dont use pesticides in our veggie garden......not a fun job but in the end it really pays off....hopefully the blues will stay and do that job for me next year....since we live south of you dont know why they wouldn't stay here.... another question i have is about dogs...we have 3 terriers...inside dogs of course but during the day they are outside lots....it seems that everytime our rat terrier gets near the nest or barks....when not even close to the nest, she'll fly out and one or both of the blues will fly away....they dont do this with our toy fox terrier or the jack russell.....i find this really weird.....why not all the dogs and will the blues get used to having them around?.....i sure hope our family pets don't chase them away....i love my bluebirds but i could never get rid of my doggies to have the blues...please tell me the dogs wont bother them....

HMF is a web site called "Help Me Find/roses" - just google it and it will pop up. You can look up any rose if you know its name. Across the top are buttons - one of them says "buy from", and tells you which nurseries sell that rose. Note - be sure and click on the button way at the bottom of the list - it will show all of the nurseries. Otherwise, the first list you see is only nurseries who donate to Help Me FInd. Great that your family still owns the property - you now have access to family heirloom plants! Also, you know that this rose grows and survives in your climate. If you can get your grandmother's permission, you might even want to transplant one of the bushes to your garden - now while it is still dormant is a good time to do that. Of course, you have to wait until the ground is not frozen. Then you just figure out where one of the roses is, and cut it WAY back - I mean, to about 18 inches high. Then you dig it up very carefully, trying to get as much of the root ball as possible - get a shovel and dig straight down all around it, at least 12-18 inches away from where the canes are coming up. Then, dig a LARGE hole in your garden, and plant it, adding "planting mix" to fill up the hole, and water it in well. Then, do not feed it or spray it - just make sure it stays moist. At first it will "do nothing", because it is growing roots under the ground where you cannot see them. Then, after 2-3 months, it will start putting out new growth - that is when you can feed it. Peonies don't like to be dug up and transplanted, but it is great that you can enjoy them. Let us know what else comes up - take pictures and post them on here! Jackie

Congrats on your first grandchild! We're grandparents through our DD so far. The only grandparents she knew were 'Grandma' who was my mother and 'G.P.' (short for Grandpa) who is DH's father. Those are the names she wanted DH and me to be called. But when her eldest began talking, DH easily became 'G.P.' (making my father in law now 'G.G.P.') But he couldn't say 'Grandma' so I became 'MumMum.' Now that his pronunciation is much better, DD asked if he'd like to start calling me 'Grandma.' But he declared that I will still be 'MumMum.' His explanation made sense to us. He calls DD 'Mummy' and hearing her always call me 'Mum,' he'd become aware that I am her mother. So he insists I still be called 'MumMum' because I'm his 'Mummy's Mum.' I guess 'MumMum' is a good way to shorten it and the word 'Grandma' just doesn't mean anything to him, lol!