Ok scents don't usually bother me....BUT
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its a heresy but I just don't like it.
Comments (42)Melissa, that is certainly food for thought. The original Duchesse is gone because over half of her died in the terribly hot summer last year. I've gotten a replacement band now which is growing nicely and hopefully will bloom this summer, but I'll certainly reserve judgment about it until it has at least another year under its belt. I wouldn't have discarded the original Duchesse if she had been able to tough it out. My new band is from Vintage and Gregg Lowery assured me after I posted above that his plants are from a very old specimen of DdB which is full-petaled and my band should have at least 25-30 petals, so I'm hopeful. It does make sense that an older plant would perform better. Certainly Westside Road Cream Tea's initial flowers looked nothing like the flowers it's putting out now, even in February. They're now about twice as large and 100% more shapely than the flowers I saw the first 6-8 months. Ingrid...See MoreDon't hate, please... :)
Comments (107)Bea, nothing ever will whiten like LCB, that's a proven fact.....Bea, the Lysol in the little brown bottle is just not worth it IMO, I know people that have used it one time and their machine has never got rid of the gosh awful scent. I use LCB on bedding or clothes if someone's sick, like the boys with snotty noses all over their pillowcases, or hubs or sons positive with the flu, it will disinfect for sure and I know I'm not growing the flu virus in my machines.lol. and trust me Bea, I have a strange household of people here, last year the little boys were real champs getting their flu shots, BUT they ended up testing positive for influenza b....3 times last season. I used LCB a lot last year. Lol. I thought you could only get the flu once, I don't know why I thought that but boy was I wrong, and just as a side note, I took care of all these flu sickos, I did not get the flu shot, and I did not get the flu. I wash kitchen towels seperatly white of course, typically no LCB, but if my son decides to cook I have to use LCB I don't trust him, I've seen him touch meat than wipe his hands on the towels. I don't allow him in my kitchen much lol. So ya Bea I use it for disinfection, as needed lol...See MoreI don't think it's Tuscany Superb!
Comments (56)Hey, Alana. Thank you for the update! I was actually thinking of you and your rose the other day as I walked through the neighborhood. You must be psychic because I have been planning to unearth this post from the forum history. (I use the word "unearth" to imply laborious digging. I am at a loss as to how to search for old threads and need to figure out the new system.) I want to offer a bit of my experience with the two HMs, Nur Mahal and Sky Rocket. I have never seen either one hit that true dark red note that your rose hits. In my experience, they don't deepen to that color. They tend to have more crimson-pink undertones. I would swear up and down that your rose is Dr. Huey except for the pink "sport" in an earlier photo (which really stumped me) and, now, the suspected remontancy. I also wanted to share something really odd that I spotted last summer in Portland. A number of neighbors are growing what I believe is Dr. Huey. The circumstances are right for Huey--neglected or abandoned garden or a cluster of contemporary cultivars that seem to be sending out shoots of rootstock or plants in formerly neglected gardens which are now tended by new homeowners. Last summer, I could have sworn I saw later blooms on some of those plants that I believe to be Huey. If my year hadn't been so crazy, I would have stopped to photograph the blooms/plants. This year, I'm hoping that I'll have time to keep my eyes open for the impossible, and if I see it, I'll swing the car to the side of the road and pull out my phone camera. Can anyone speak to this phenomenon? Does Huey carry the possibility of minor remontancy when growing under some set of unusual circumstances? I hesitate to even mention it for fear of sounding like I've lost my mind, but last year rhododendrons and camellias rebloomed, as did my Magnolia soulingeana. Carol...See MoreCold Water Washes/Tide Coldwater Anyone? Don't be a hater
Comments (25)Some of the problems with cold water people out there in the world is they see stains disappear using cool or tempered cold..many stains will be shifted..so they think Great cold water really does clean my clothes. I don't think many in the world give a thought to body oils. Weve had people come in here asking why their sheets and pillowcases have turned yellow, remember the person that was going out to buy multi colored sheets in order to hide the yellow? As for smell, a fox may smell his own hole first but humans don't, check out the laundramats those people throw handfuls of dryer sheets in the dryer and dump the FS in the washer, WHY, they want their clothes to smell clean..there's two reasons for this either they associate perfumed clothing to clean, which many do, including some people here, or they are covering something up..I think much of the time its both. cold water will not clean your textiles, just because it removed a stain does not mean the clothes are clean. Body oils come out easily in hot water but if washed in cold will build up in the fibers turning to wax...melt a candle on a garment than wash ut in cold..wash it in hot and you begin to see it melt..you all know this but someone new may not. Our mothers and grandmothers did not wash in cold, they knew more than many people out there that was a poor laundry practice....there are a lot of people, intelligent people that someone has convinced use a coldwater detergent and your clothes will be clean and your saving energy....and on top of it there's no mention of how they are damaging their machines. No I don't wash in cold or even cool, I don't care what someone else does..I value clean clothes. You had to get me started on cold water..lol...See Morebpath
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