What are your rose shopping habits?
Karen R. (9B SF Bay Area)
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Rose du Roi of commerce; growth habit, suckering, pictures?
Comments (3)Kmama, suckering roses, such as gallicas or the wild Rosa californica, expand and send up new flowering canes via underground rhizomes, eventually forming a thicket or patch. My Rose du Roi of commerce has been in the ground just 3 years and has yet to do much of that (so, perhaps not as vigorous that way as some. For many years I have had an unnamed mossy pink gallica-type that, really, is a weed, though with a very full and beautiful, well-perfumed flower. Every spring I need to circumscribe its perimeter with a shovel to keep the patch around 5' diameter, and more than a year after digging up one population of it, I am still digging it up! I always take care to never plant that one anywhere near the "civilized" part of the garden.) Thus far, the canes of my Rose du Roi have not exceeded about 2.5', so I can't imagine pegging it, but, anyway, each cane puts out several branches without pegging. The leaves are very healthy (saying something, this year) and cover the plant well. Current flowers are about 4" in diameter. This is one of my favorite rose flowers of all: beautiful deep red-going-to-purple, heavy scent, huge number of petals arranged in intricate swirls, flower flat and quartered. Just love it -- it is more beautiful in person than most of the photos on HMF would indicate (tough rose to photograph)....See MoreGrowth habits of these roses
Comments (8)BUT you have to have some summer heat for Crepuscule to excell. She's GREAT at the San Jose Heritage Rose Garden, but refuses to grow in my Z24 cool, foggy climate. Lady Hillingon makes a graceful, arching bush of medium size, and is a good bloomer, with good disease resistance here. Jeri Jennings is an arching shrub that puts well-formed sprays all along the laterals that arch out. She would arch outward from your low wall. Perhaps not cascade down, but arch enough to look good. She is free of mildew and rust for us. The blooms open sequentially, and fade slowly, so that a spray has many different shades of yellow, all at once. Jeri Jennings in coastal Ventura Co., Z24 CA...See MoreGrocery shopping habits
Comments (30)My shopping cart is arranged the same way every trip. Cleaning products under the cart, kiddie seat (left to right) personal items, small dairy, jars, cans, eggs on top of personal and small dairy, bread on cans and jars, fruit and veggies along the back of the kiddie seat. Main cart (starting under kiddie seat and going left to right) line 1 is milk and paper products, line two is meats and frozen foods, deli on top of frozen stuff, cereal on top of paper products. At the checkout I start with cleaning supplies, then paper products, then dairy, meat, cans, jars, frozen, veggies, fruits, deli, eggs, bread. My husband knows the order and puts the stuff on the belt while I watch the prices. I do most of my shopping at Meijer where they bag the items right after scanning so they go in the bags in the order they are on the belt. Sometimes I am bad and toss a magazine or some tic-tacs on top! ⺠It is good to know there are other people out there who organize as they shop, my husband thinks I am a bit uptight (not the word he would use) and should just toss everything in willy-nilly. He also thinks I spend waaaaay too much time choosing certain items (meat, fruit, veggies...). But I would rather spend a little extra time choosing carefully in the store than finding soggy looking green beans in my fridge when I go to cook dinner....See MoreFloof: My new,odd habit.....and yours????
Comments (51)Glad to read I'm not the only oddball out there! Very interesting to read about all of our various quirks. littlebug, I never, ever leave my car windows down because of the remote chance a wasp might get inside. I could just see me driving over a cliff because a stinging insect was buzzing around in the car. I once stripped down to my undies in a parking lot because I felt something crawling up my leg while driving. It turned out to be a bee that had somehow got under my pants leg - still makes me shudder to think about it!...See MoreHalloBlondie (zone5a) Ontario, Canada
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