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Merry Christmas!!

7 years ago

May it be a special time of glorious celebration!! Just placed my order yesterday with Rogue Valley Nursery for 40 roses (either in sets of 4 or 8), Teas and Polyanthas, as we redid the backyard with a large French parterre design. I'll be publishing pictures in a month or so to give folks an additional idea as we've been struggling on how to organize the space and went through 10 years of trying an English garden that just did not work for us here in CA, Silicon Valley. Looking for 8 additional Teas now -- how fun, after 3 years of waiting for new garden -- finally! Merry Christmas!

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Sheila z8a Rogue Valley OR

7 years ago

Tanya, I can't wait either to see your pictures and hear the news. I'm trying not to order more for the moment so that I can take the best care of the present newbies and make the best choices going forward but it is hard to restrain myself. I am looking up more Teas in HMF and drooling.

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ingrid_vc so. CA zone 9
7 years ago
A very Merry Christmas to you Tanya. Sounds like exciting times ahead for you in the garden. You must be so excited. Do keep us updated and let us know what roses you ordered.
Tanya Vasilev
Original Author
7 years ago
Ordered my favorites that I had in my English garden that do great here:

4 x Marie Van Houtte
4 x Mme Joseph Schwartz
8 x Clothilde Soupert
4 x Mignonette
8 x Pink Soupert
8 x Pink Pet (Caldwell Pink)

Now that I'll have the symmetry with roses (as they go into their own sections of the parterre) I can be filling in with one off.s I used to buy lots of roses from the Vintage Gardens, but as I did not kept the tags, I did not know (except for the obvious ones) which ones the good/safe ones were. Kept as many of them during the demolition.
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portlandmysteryrose
7 years ago
Lovely! I can hardly wait for photos. Carol
Tanya Vasilev
Original Author
7 years ago
Sheila, what I found was that you need to order more than reasonable, as some, even Teas (which do so well here), do not perform, and then you can have an option of tolerating or freeing up the space for a new opportunity : )
Sheila z8a Rogue Valley OR
7 years ago
Tanya, you might be right!
titian1 10b Sydney
7 years ago
That sounds most exciting, Tanya. Also looking forward to photos. It's interesting for me to see your list, as Marie van Houtte is one of my best performers (in shade, but blooms heaps, and healthy). I haven't tried any of the others on your list (have tried and failed with many, many others!), so I'm now going to look them up on HMF, and keep Sheila company drooling!

Merry Xmas. Trish

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