OR you could pick up the same material on the websites: http://www.goldcoastrose.org/ and http://www.theheritagerosesgroup.org/ Thanks to our wonderful Webmistress, Penni. Jeri Here is a link that might be useful: Gold Coast Heritage Roses Group

I'm new to this area & haven't yet met fellow gardeners (a bit shy) so I really miss the plant sharing. Back in the old place where I lived over 30 years I gave & received tons of plants. I *blush* populated the front yards of my neighborhood with peach brugs after friends oohed & aahhed over a magnificent specimen in our yard that reached roof-top height. That whole yard was populated with shared plants. The guy that built the house & the previous owner had been plant enthusiasts. Every time I planted some unusual seeds from J.L. Hudson or Thompson & Morgan I'd share extras with my plant pals. Things I had an inexhaustible supply of were shell ginger, dancing ladies & pinecone gingers, physostegia, orchid trees, kumquats, queen's crown, crossvine, monkeygrass, airplane plant (we grew it outside as a neat bedding plant), plumeria, brugs, honeysuckle, esperanza, ruella, bamboos--oh, so many things, I'm tired of typing. I had a friend on acreage nearby & I'd regularly haul her a pickup load & return with one, too. Finding Gardenweb was a treat when I got into roses big time. I had one trader pal in particular that would exchange CRATES of the most wonderful plants with me. We had similar tastes & climate zones & we had a ball swapping. And there is something so special about the most ordinary plant that is given as a gift. I treasure the few I have left from grandmothers, aunts, uncles & friends--maidenhair fern from great-grandmother, Louisiana iris from Grandma, kalanchoe from Mamaw, etc. None are rare or unusual varieties, just a link with loved ones who are gone. So I suppose there is an element of selfishness in sharing or trading--the thrill of collecting, the insurance of spreading an endangered variety around. Like J. L. Hudson's logo: a Steller's jay flying with an acorn in its mouth & the motto: "preservation through dissemination". But it's a selfishness that benefits others ;) I hope to meet some local gardening folks who will enjoy discussing & sharing plants as much as my Gardenweb pals.

I love this little magazine, Jeri and am so glad you put it together for the HRG. I save them, too.

Diane, I think there will be a list -- not a whole ambitious catalog, but a list. I know there will be some good things, because I had a preliminary list which is in the current issue of Gold Coast Roses (the Gold Coast HRG Quarterly, for Oct.) Since your conditions aren't that different from mine, I think I can recommend one rose for sure -- "Elisabeth's China." "Elisabeth's China" is one of the Cemetery's "Legacy" roses, and I think it's been rated at the most-constantly-in-bloom in the whole bunch. You can see that the old plant has been cut to the ground more than once, but she came back, and she's still guarding Elisabeth's headstone. I fell in love with Elisabeth's Stober's rose a few years ago, and I have two of it here now. (One still in a pot, one settling in, in the ground.) It's a beautiful deep red rose -- and it has a wonderful sweet fragrance that even I can smell! If the roses are set out alphabetically -- run first to the "E" section. Jeri