Anita - thank you, thank you! The catalogue is gorgeous, as usual. Talk about enabling!

Jackie

Thank you! I am really hoping to be there!

Wow! I'm pretty jealous of all of you that get to go to that! I think I would leave with a trunkful!

I wonder if a Californian who is somewhat familiar with these gorgeous foundlings could add the ones that do not yet have HMF records?

Virginia

Sacramento, so near and yet so far away! Sigh. Carol

Anita, a lovely event! Do you ship them? I am thousands of miles away.

No we don't ship. Sorry! Maybe you could come someday. It truly is a lovely event, in such a beautiful old cemetery and with so many wonderful rose friends!

Thanks Anita. Hope to see some photos.

Some wonderful roses in that catalogue, possibly the best selection yet!

It's amazing to see what the roses of yesteryear looked like, so different from today.

I need a couple of days off and am really hoping I can make it. But we will see

Jackie, that is wonderful to see younger people get into gardening. I am around her age and I am the only person in my area that gardens. I also grow food and get my kids involved. People my age say it takes up too much time but I don't spend a lot of time on my garden. I let the weeds grow a little too much but my flowers and roses thrive well enough.

Good for you! I think it is very good for people to put down their electronic devices and go out in the garden and get their hands in the dirt. Too much worry about things being perfect stops some people, which is too bad. The weeds in my garden (after 56 inches of rain since Oct, and then a week of warm sunny days) have exploded, but I just ignore everything except the one small place I am working - I have found if I concentrate on fixing up a small area, I don't get overwhelmed, and it is enjoyable. Great that you are getting your kids involved too!

Jackie

I hope that your neighbor comes, Jackie, and other younger people. We have been forming a relationship with a nearby high school and introducing people to our garden and cemetery. As for weeds - we have been fighting them like mad in the rose garden but I guarantee that there will be many visible along with the roses on Open Garden. We don't use Roundup, just manual labor, cardboard and other weed barriers, and mulch - this spring's rain has put the weeds in the lead, but seems to be doing wonders for the roses, too.

Yes, all of my roses are doing very well with all of the rain. A little behind schedule, but growing well. Luckily, we have gotten about 7 days of warm weather and sunny days, so now they are really taking off. Can't wait to see the roses at the Cemetery.

Jackie

OK - Jeri has done it again. She just posted a picture of a found (Nevada City) rose called "Historic Powell House". Do you have it in the Rose Garden? I could not find it on HMF - do you know anything about it, or if it is in commerce? I did not see it on the Open Garden Sale list either.

Oh, another question - you say above that a supplementary list of roses which will be for sale at the Open Garden, but just a few, will be posted. When? Thanks -

Jackie

Bumping this up, as it is in exactly 2 weeks! I am so excited!

Jackie

We're all anxious. Since we go in our motorhome, with all of the dogs, I've been putting aside meals prepared and frozen. Next will be picking out clothes.

For us, Open Garden -- and on May 21 the Celebration Of Old Roses -- are the highlight of spring.

Can't wait!

Here's a video from last year -- walking through the garden, the day before the sale:

https://youtu.be/Hk-apdpMZSo

Just beautiful, Jeri! I wish I could be there.

I'm going! I'm bringing my hubby and my mom and dad are even going to go! They recently moved to Sacramento and my dad has really missed his garden so I'm hoping he might get inspired to get involved there as a volunteer.

I am so excited to meet some of my rose friends in person! Just as excited for that, if not more so, than for the roses! I will wear the same blue and white Los Cabos baseball hat I'm wearing in my gardenweb photo so I will be recognizable. Please come say hi! :)

I enjoyed that video Jeri, thanks for alerting us to that... I hadn't seen it before... how can anyone want to destroy all those wonderful roses...? I'm hoping those issues have been resolved by now...

I just watched another video called 'Rob on the Road', and he toured the cemetery in company with a charmingly cheerful and humourous lady called Lynda Walls, she did make me laugh with her quips... It's a few years old, but still... hope you all have a lovely time and buy plenty of roses for us all to swoon over..

I hope to meet some of you. I'll be selling roses for a while, and then I'll probably be at the Heritage Roses Group table. :-)

I will definitely come by to say hello Jeri! Is it weird to say I'm a fan of yours? Well... I am! I'm a fan! I'm excited to meet you and hope to meet Jackie too ... and all my other rose friends who are there! :)

I will be there too. I am usually a blur between doing two tours and everything else but PLEASE say hello! I will be in my crazy Rose lady flowered hat and Rose apron. The roses are still in place, thank goodness, although there has been no final resolution. We are still in a moratorium from the city's order to remove climbers and move or remove or whack many other roses.

But I won't miss any opportunity to enjoy them . . . JUST IN CASE.

Setzer Noisette:

Secret Garden Musk Climber:

There are too many roses yet to plant in the baby roses cage and I need to do that before adding any more. We need to be in Monterey later that week, so I was thinking of going to assist with the sale if that was needed. I've always enjoyed the garden and rosy people. Or, we could just go to wine country....

I hope it changes, but it is supposed to rain this Saturday in Sacramento and be in the 60s. :-/

Im still going and bringing my hubby and parents... but darn!

Question for those who volunteer at the cemetery... my dad is in his late seventies and very active, but still has some limitations. He really misses his big garden (recently moved to a smaller place in Sacramento), but when I talked about volunteering there he was worried that it would be too structured and he may not be able to commit. There are volunteers that don't have to come every week at a certain time right? Some that can drop in when they're able? He is a fabulous retired hairdresser and we were teasing him that he could be like Edward Scissor Hands there. :-)

I think it would be really enjoyable for him... but a big commitment might be too much for him. There's a place for volunteers like him, if he's up for it, right?

Who would he talk to there? Anita would that be you?

Everybody - the event will go on rain or shine but we sure hope the storm blows through on Friday and that weather is good on Saturday. Right now the forecast keeps getting worse - darn indeed.

Cori Ann - Your dad could also talk with Jim Atwood who will be at the welcome table, and who may be more accessible during the event (I lead two tours and don't have much free time). We definitely are flexible in working with volunteers. Our volunteer days are Tues and Sat mornings and there is no expectation that people are there every week, or arrive or leave at a set time - we tell folks to come when they can. We can also work out him coming to deadhead or weed or whatever he'd like to do at other times. We'd love to have him join our group!

Thank you so much!

It was a great day even with the rain.

Jeri it was so great to meet you, your hubby and your doggies. I'm so excited about the roses you recommended!

I ended up buying Coulterville Red, Hubner Plot, Seven Sisters and a huge pulp pot of Castro Breen Red Climber. Also a very cute rose bag and rose gardening apron sewn by Judy, who was our amazing tour guide.

Here are some photos from the tour...

Coulterville Red...

Amazing stained glass, stonework and scenery...

I forget the name, but it is a green "lavender"...

Back at my house and out of the rain... my huge Castro Breen is going to go (I think between Sombreuil and Florentina on a fence near a large pagoda-style arch...

Seven Sisters is going to go (I think) along a fence between two Peggy Martins...

Coulterville Red and Hubner Plot have some growing up to do before I figure out where they go...

So glad that you came and enjoyed the day and scored some wonderful roses! I missed meeting you and your family, though. I hope your dad decides to come help us volunteers - we have a great group of people!

Thank you Anita! I missed you too! You must have been very busy with the rain and everything! Judy gave a great tour and we had a wonderful time. I was really trying to encourage my dad, but he is concerned that he wouldn't be able to walk safely where the ground isn't level. It is sad to see him deteriorating. He had a great time talking to the volunteers though and learning a little more.