Hi Davej I sent you an email Margie

Debbie, Please email me again, I am not seeing your mail for whatever reason? I'm not 100% sure I have Old Bl. and Cl. Old Blush rooted already ? I can easily put some under my misting bed today, and they'd be ready within a short amount of time. Or I can send cuttings mon. Let me know. They root very easily, not like I'm going to lose the plants they are pretty bullet proof, have a few other Chinas as well. I have other roses that are rooted, I have no problem getting rid of a few for postage, interested in the other rose, but mainly just trying to figure what i would be. I do not have a ton of white, but no biggie. I'll pass on it. I need to keep room for everything else. I'll let you know what I have rooted. I have 3 or 4 extra Moser house shed rose, once bloomer I guess. It hasn't bloomed for me yet. But you are welcome to one. I'll either dump the others here, online, or at a rose meeting ? I'll take a look at your want page in a moment. But feel free to PM me so I have your address let me know how much space you have ,what colors ,type of rose you like, and I'll do my best to help. Andrew

Setting seed is pregnancy. If the plant is stressed, it may not set seed. If, for some reason, the pollen didn't make it to the pistles to accomplish fertilization, or if the weather was not conducive to fertilization (too wet, too cold, too hot, etc.) seed won't be set. If the plant is too immature, it may not set seed. Just as with people, "getting pregnant" is hit and miss. Some are more fertile and willing to set seed than others. Those of us here in extreme heat areas quickly find out how late in the heat we can pollinate before it stops working. A friend out in Rancho Mirage, near Palm Springs, has already stopped pollinating because it's too hot for fertilization to work. I'm still pollinating here just north of Los Angeles because it's still working. If I allow the seed parents to dry out, they'll stop setting seeds. If I don't watch how I water and the pollinated flowers get soaked by the hose, fertilization might easily be stopped for those blooms. If your rose fits any of the mentioned categories, it could explain why seeds didn't set. Kim

Oh Jean! I know what you are going thru here. I rarely catch the little B!&@#%$ in the act, but they are here more than ever before and the repellent spray just isn't stopping them anymore. I was blaming the fires for them being so bold and eating everything in sight, but now I'm thinking it's the vegetables that I planted in huge pots at the side of the garage that's attracting them in more. That's where they hit the worse. Time to toss them out and see if that will maybe lessen their visits. Next yr, I'm going to seriously work on a solution to these varmints. I plan to put up tall conduit post with holes drilled and I'll run heavy gauge wire thru them around the perimeter and hang reflective ribbons allover. Hopefully that will stop them from coming in to the yard. Then I might add a "Scarecrow" motion-detected sprinkler to a couple of spots in the yard too. But this season, I have too much going on to take the time now to get that all set up. It's very aggravating tho having to deal with these pests, isn't it??