Is that ketchup&mustard? I don't like the name at all. It's nota rose I grow called half time ( not a favorite name either ) 1/2 time is more thorny than this is but every bit as beautiful. Vintage has a virus free version listed. I put pictures of my 1/2 time up in the rose gallery recently around thanksgiving. Not the best bloomer, but the blooms I get are wonderful.

I'm picturing a very bored giraffe.... Are there any kind of droppings on the ground under your trellis? Is the sawdust there or has something taken it? I wonder if there is some kind of rodent common to your area that might line a nest with wood chips or sawdust. If you have any vacation days left, you are going to have to place yourself on stakeout, because we really hate a mystery we can't solve here....

Oh, this is the stuff that is the flooring of the porch, and it was not kept well painted, and so the edges have rot, and if you kind of bounce up and down in places, it kind of sags. Do you suppose that, too, would be salvageable, if it were braced underneath? It isn't very thick. The floors in the house are GORGEOUS under their unfortunate layers of paint. We have scraped some of the paint that is loose off. I was thinking about renting one of those big sanders to get it off there, but knowing me, I would be better off hiring this done, because I would take forever. Almost all the trim is painted white. I hated it at first, but am learning to live with it, because getting all this woodwork stripped and sanded would be a tremendous job. There is some really ugly carpet in places, too. On the back stairs (which we never really use, anyway), I lifted up the old indoor outdoor carpet covering them, and one of them has a mouse hole you can see clear down into the basement lol! So, I set it back down. They're sturdy, though. The inside of some of the doors is quarter sawn. I sure wish they wouldn't have painted them. Just beautiful where it's not painted. Unbelievably gorgeous brass hardware everywhere, including a circa 1869 doorbell. The previous owner stated they had intended to replace the front double door and transom window. Thank you, God, for somehow this not having happened. What a tragedy that would have been.

So it looks like take them back OUT of the fridge, keep them inside, see if they come up, and if not in a month, THEN stick them into the fridge and after that, the garage. It doesn't look like they need light to germinate, so I must not have to put them on the sill for it. Thanks! The instructions I received were worded very vaguely. Out of the refrigerator and into the house for a month.