KJ I think it’s an easy task, especially with a young rose you planted yourself . In zone 9B, you can plant high above the graft and any Huey that pops out below the bud union will be very obvious, just snap it off completely when you see it. Claire those reasons make sense to me for cold weahter locales. If it dies to the ground, the rose will come back true to variety. In my mild winter climate I always plant as high up on the root system as possible because all the best soil is on top (there’s a reason it’s coalled topsoil lol!) , so its not wasted on the graft and can be used by feeder roots. Also, I don’t have to dig so deep into the much harder adobe clay below. I am quite opportunistic and get whatever rootstock comes my way! With good care and a benevolent climate, the great majority of roses thrive regardless of own root or whichever rootstock.

I have a dual fuel range with the two ovens. For something like cookie baking where the tendency is for the bottoms to get too brown, I use fan bake. The cookies will usually take a few extra minutes. For vegetables or meat I use convection bake, and just plain bake for bread or cakes. I also use convection bake for when I need the oven at its hottest, such as for pizza. I've never had a digital temperature display on any oven, so I'm comfortable with the. dials. I tend to be moderately casual about temperature, and I never bother to decrease the temperature if I'm using convection, but I will watch the time.

Last winter wasn't as bad as the one before, I believe the lowest temps without windchill were -40C. It is hard to remember because unlike when I was young, they now factor in the windchill and people talk about -45C when actually it is only -35C with one heck of a wind. So when one person remembers the winter as brutal because it was windy, I think it was fine as long as my fruit trees survived. The Gabe A is now about 4 feet tall, kind of willowy and the branches that blossomed were under the snow line. Above the snow there was not much tip damage, maybe 2 inches. I will also add that where it is positioned is on the south side of a deck so we pile all the snow on top of it all winter. What are the chances of some of the Capilano apricot seedlings having some decent fruit? Or is that almost impossible considering the seeds don't really come true to type.

lol pressed wrong button, oops Aristocrat Komodo Dragon, I have some of these in full sun, such as it is,and we have a little bit of sunburn but growth has been good and KD. has I think five new eyes. These are terrible photos but its very windy and the scape is moving too much, not sure if you can see the extra bits inside the trumpet. This is only on the bottom few flowers A very pretty scape of flowers Moonlight Sonata, has done very well. We gonna need a bigger pot! nigrescens, kinda awkward looking but will be very cool when it expands. QotS, stil looking a bit.. eh... crap but new eyes are shooting up, best ignored till next year. Regal Splendor, doing well. Spartacus, he looked very bad when he arrived but now with five new eyes looks pretty good considering his struggles. Winter Snow, two new eyes coming up now. Very crappy weather today and I suffered taking these lol Please come back summer.............