What's on your current wish list?
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Comments (43)Jeannie, How about one of the Ayrshire ramblers? I have been rather falling in love with 'Venusta Pendula', which is a very vigorous once-bloomer with pink-edged white semi-double blooms and dark pretty foliage. We have summer heat, which you folks do not, I know, but I hear VP does well in Germany, another place with cool summers. The Ayrshire ramblers, bred from Rosa arvensis, one of the few European members of the Synstylae group, have a reputation for doing well in poor conditions. I don't know if they would have disease problems in your area: mine are healthy until late autumn, when the older leaves get black spot. I can handle that. 'Venusta Pendula' is generally considered to be not fragrant, but mine is decidedly myrrh-scented: either other gardeners can't smell this fragrance, or they're listening to each other rather than going out and smelling the rose. Or I have the wrong rose, but I don't think so. Another Ayrshire rose, I believe similar, 'Ayrshire Splendens', is definitely myrrh-scented. I have this variety too, but am still getting to know it. The myrrh fragrance is thought to have entered the English roses through an Ayrshire ancestor of one of David Austin's founding roses, 'Constance Spry' I believe. If you can get cuttings, by the way, the Ayrshire roses root very easily, though this is true of ramblers in general. The chief item on my wish list is that the 78 or so roses that make up our definitive order from Petrovic in Serbia arrive reasonably promptly and in good order, and in a period when it's not raining hard or snowing. That's a fair amount of wishing, but not totally unreasonable. Mr. Petrovic told me he'd be sending the order out around the end of November, but I haven't heard anything from him (I need to get in touch), but it's been raining here for the last week, and perhaps they've had weather equally unsuitable for digging over there. It's been raining abundantly here this fall--and we have so far no slides and no signs of slumping on our land--and temperatures are forecast to begin dropping next week after a very mild fall. So, so far, so good. I've done most of my planting and taking cuttings, so my main task after the Petrovic roses are planted is pruning and maintenance. There are a lot of roses, but I have three months. I am looking forward to the sun coming out, as it's been raining for the last week. Melissa...See MoreWhat is on your plant wish list for 2009
Comments (11)This time of year I always wish I had more evergreens. The garden looks too sparse. A couple more dwarf false cypress would be nice. Once spring comes and the peonies put on their show, I will forget all about evergreens though. I don't have gay paree or athena (herbaceous peonies) and I want them. But something else will have to go to make room and I have trouble deciding what I no long love enough.... Moving for more land is out of the question. I can't leave my enormous dogwood and the 25 year old fig trees. I hesitate to admit this because rose growing friends have hooted and made fun of me but I am so charmed by the knock-out rose (the original one radrazz) growing in the park that I want one of those too....See MoreSo what;s on your Christmas Wish list....
Comments (30)I had an external hard drive and loved it. I had it set for auto back up every 3 days. It worked flawlessly for almost 5 years. I now have an extra hard drive so no need for the Iomega. For Christmas this year, actually I'd like this present before Christmas, I'd like all the finish work completed in our home. I thought we'd be having a nice Christmas without sawdust but maybe we will celebrate for Valentines Day. In lieu of the woodwork.... I'd like a round bread mold. A Popover Pan. A extra vacuum. Several cutting boards, 10by12" or smaller. A mandoline. A folding step ladder with at least 2 steps. I need one that folds up as small as possible for easy storage but tall enough so I can reach the top shelves. A new potato ricer, mine is on it's last legs. Michelle...See MoreWhat's on your spring wish list?
Comments (15)I just placed my 14th (15th? 40th?...lost track) order with Epiphytica. Ordered: EPC 7 archboldiana variegated EPC 959 hoya hybrid EPC 899 linusii EPC 117 megalaster EPC 863 buotii variegated EPC 929 vitellinoides x sp. UT-001 EPC 901 obtusifolia orange EPC 216 maxima (red corolla) EPC 742 mitrata splash EPC 838 nilotica EPC 946 aff. chewiorum (H 72) EPC 962 hamiltonirum (had this on reserve for awhile) EPC 766 hoya caudata gold (have one, love it so much, needed a second) EPC 701 dennisii gold ridge EPC 779 sp. EPC 779 EPC 202 sp. EPC 202 EPC 932 sp. EPC 932 EPC 473 sp. PNG-SV-435 EPC 668 sp. PNG-SV-436 EPC 486 sp. TN-99-023 EPC 897 sp. UT-217 EPC 850 sp. UT-218 EPC 851 sp. UT-223 ...and I put on reserve hoya platycaulis (EPC 657)!...See MoreJaycee
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