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Glad you're back! Now I am worried about Henry. Hope he is Ok

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Thanks rifis! Glad to know Henry is Ok too! :-)

Good to hear from you, Moses!

Hello to you, Moses! Nice to hear from you - every time someone posts a picture of Quietness, I think of you!

And, I understand re the spell checking issues - I have the same experience. I just keep retyping the word, but it’s annoying - I‘ve found if it keeps changing the same word, if you add some random letters to the end it will think it doesn’t recognize it & leave it alone - then you can just delete the extra random letters. (As an example, when typing the previous sentence Houzz kept trying to change “understand” to “ratatouille”, I kid you not!)

And here I thought I was the only one with this issue but with voice recognition. It doesn't let me edit and when it does it gives me those ridiculous spellings. Or then it just erases the entire thing. Who's is ridiculous. For some reason it doesn't do it on my laptop just my phone.

Glad you are back .miss your rose comments.

Is there anyway to disable the spell check feature ? In my Samsung Galaxy cell phone l was having the same problem .it was forcing me to put words that l didnt want so l went to settings and disabled it .now l have to type the word wrong before it gives me suggestions only .

Happy that all is well with you Moses. Spell check does that to me on a regular basis. Unfortunately I usually don’t notice until I after I’ve hit submit. My grammar is already poor enough.

Yea Moses good to hear from you

I have some horrible issues with houzz too.

every time I type in a word and hit enter the word disappears. So. the only way that I can get the words to stick is to talk into my phone or wait and until the word comes up as a suggestion and hit on that so posting takes for ever.

I miss seeing your posts.

I believe yesterday was a big day.

Sending Moses good wishes for an uneventful recovery and rapid return to this forum, where he is much valued and respected.

Prayers sent for Moses! Have a quick recovery!

Best wishes and gentle hugs to our friend Moses. Get well soon friend.

Praying for you Moses! Fast recovery!

Wish you a quick and full recovery

Is this something recent? If so I couldn't wish you A faster return to this warm and all your activities!

Moses, if I had that issue on Houzz, I don't know how often I would post either. [g] Can I make a suggestion for you to try? I don't know what kind of device you are using, but I use an Apple laptop. In the operating system, I have TextEdit software, which is just a casual typing program, that I like. It launches fast for me, unlike Microsoft Word, so I use it a lot. I have gotten in the habit of composing GW posts on TextEdit and then Copy Paste them here when I want to post. That way, for me any way, I just deal with my own spell check that is on my program and it pastes complete without correction on GW.

Maybe you have a similar way to compose and then copy/paste into a comment window? Maybe that would work?

Prairiemoon,

What I've learned to do so that I don't accidentally delete an unfinished post is: After entering just a short few words of a post I submit it. Then, I go back to the incomplete but just submitted post and click EDIT. After that I will finish composing it, and submit it.

Moses

Great to hear Moses! :-)

Glad to hear from you Moses!

Rifis, are you a fortune teller with a crystal ball?

I hope all your Roses bloom to greet you!🤗

Moses, That is a good strategy too, that I hadn't thought of. Great idea!

Dear to us Moses, ever since I read the first of your posts I wanted to change my name to Methuselah, I feel old as the hills and at times want to lay down my soul.

Your words " We have a prayer answering God. " was just what I needed to hear this morning. It's wonderful having you in the world, I'm encouraged, our work is not done yet.

“For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.” 2 Corinthians 4:16

Moses: I always appreciate all your posts which you put time and your heart into each post. I also appreciate your sense of humor (such as the one about Brittney Spear's wedding), which made me laugh. So glad to have you back, and I also share your faith in Jesus.

No crystal ball nor HIPAA breach; just recent discussion on Oh Happy Day, though indication wasn’t mentioned.

The roses have done pretty good this year, 2022. Rewarding me with far more output of flowering than I deserved, due to my poor but unintentioned input of care, really gave me a lift in my spirits. It was like putting $10.00 into my wallet, and miraculously finding $100.00 there the next day!

Last year, 2021, the roses did surprisingly well, too, in spite of getting essentially no care all year due to my two hip replacement surgeries, six months apart. When I say 'surprisingly well' I really mean it. I did not expect the bounty of blooms with the roses getting no care to speak of all of 2021.

The bed is a little odd looking this year, 2022, with there being so few mature bushes, but lots of juveniles, plus 2022 additions around them due to me converting the bed over to NO SPRAY FOR DISEASE BUSHES (black spot the principal adversary), which campaign has less than 5 replacement bushes yet to go. I had to part with some much beloved bushes in the process, but hopefully, the end results will pay big dividends.

The lions share of rose bed work has been done for this year by now, so my current, temporary physical limitations due to Monday's laminectomy surgery should hopefully have little negative effect.

Roses and living, living with roses in our lives, what a wondrous adventure Our Lord gives us. My rose garden is like a beloved old friend along side my Roses Forum friends, who could be more blessed than me?

Moses

Moses, you are such an inspiration and blessing to all of us.

With all of your new body parts you are almost bionic .

I am anxious to hear which new roses are in your new spray free garden.

Im afraid that one of my favorites , Heirloom, is just a BS mess this year and must go.

Take it easy Moses and heal well.

I'm glad to hear all of this good news Moses! You will be the new bionic man on this form for sure! OT, I Swear just read berrypies comment with picture I wanted to follow up on. Am I hallucinating?

Have you ever written , been in a hurry and tapped delete instead of submit ? Sometimes my posts vanish and I don't know if it was me or maybe I was hallucinating that I wrote something.

photo was found on pinterest.

I might really be in a fog after the dentist.

I accidentally touch 'Post Destroying Land Mines' on my tablet all the time. Very annoying!

What's worse is there's no cure I know of for it!

Moses

You wrote it and I saw so I guess we are both hallucinating! LOL! I wanted to post this picture in response to yours.

There are two, the shorter one which has Phyllis Bide and a taller one that is growing climbing The Fairy.

Kristine,

Here's my list of 'NO SPRAY FOR DISEASE,' bushes so far, and look to be thriving, especially in spite of the current drought here in the 'Burgh.

[multiples in (*)]

Quietness (3)

Dee-Lish (4)

Princess Charlene of Monaco

Moonlight Romantica

Pinkerbelle

Apricot Candy

Wedding Bells (2)

South Africa

Earth Angel

Poseidon (2)

At Last (2)

Italian Ice

Bliss (2)

Easy Spirit

Pink Double Knock Out

White Knock Out

Apricot Drift (7)

Popcorn Drift (2)

Sweet Drift

Quick Silver

Yet to be replaced:

Aunt Honey

Scepter'd Isle

On the fence, literally,😁, with my climber, Lady Ashe. Although she's a black spotter, the foliage drop is no more than 20%, and her massive bush size, with generous and beautiful blooms, and excellent repeat will keep me holding onto her. She's cherished too much and is like an old friend. However, she will still not be sprayed, just fertilized and watered as best I can give her.

Moses

I second Wedding Bells and Deelish as never having the teensiest of blackspot. I have quite a fee of the others and they are excellent but they aren’t absolutely spotless here in the Seattle area

@Moses, Western PA., zone 5/6, USA, what about Pink Don Juan?

Vaporvac I love your three legged trellis, it looks so great with roses . There must have been a trellis like that in my deep dark past, it looks so familiar.

Moses , I was eager to pounce on that list to see what I have, or what I need. No Chantal Merieux , I was afraid of that.

I need rose therapy after my dentist ordeal.

Moses, thank you for posting that list! I'll be referencing that for sure. Your selections have def. influenced my garden here in Michigan. Lady Ashe is such a beautiful trooper! Yes, it gets a touch of blackspot late in the season, but those blooms! The plant is also quite hardy -- I don't winter protect established roses, and Lady Ashe keeps about 18" of live cane every year. Currently it is about 36" -- I cut the last batch of blooms for the house. Lovely!

Here's my black spot protocol.

Any black spot that appears from September on, and only on the very oldest, way down,near the ground leaves does not eliminate that rose from the 'Desirable,' list. As long as this phenomenon is consistent, year after year. Quietness is such a rose. It gets late season black spot on its oldest, lowest on the stems leaves, and does so regularly. This is not harmful in any way. Dormancy is right around the corner. Strong, abundant growth was made during the growing season. Essentially, the bush was not injured or held back by the late season outbreak.

There are roses that get no black spot whatsoever, any time. These phenomenal bushes are much sought after and should be, but those who get inconsequential late season black spot are excellent garden candidates of equal value, IMHO.

One point to be aware of is that a first year bush in your garden, especially an own root, immature youngster of very small size, say growing in a 3" pot (often such small liners are recently potted up tissue cultured starts), can have 'baby black spot,' its first year or two under your care, and never have black spot again any future year. As it matures its immunity to black spot kicks in. This phenomenon is pretty common and should not alarm the rose's owner.

Another important point is that a neglected bush that would be otherwise black spot free, can be heavily infected with black spot which entirely clears up on new growth made after good care is given. You see this in commercial nurseries, especially in the big box type nurseries, where good care quickly breaks down shortly after a shipment of pristine roses arrives. So if a badly black spotted bush is found, and it is a true to variety known black spot resistant rose, it will return to pristine growth if the poor care is replaced with good care.

Moses

It was a relief to see Earth Angel and Bliss on the no spray list. It definitely helps to have someone chart the territory .

My baby Bliss got off to a rough start surrounded by sickly rust covered seedlings . I'm not sure what the flower seeds were but after they were pulled out , the rust source is gone and the roses have totally recovered.

It was shocking to find the underside of the lily leaves were solidly covered with a million aphids. My serious lesson is to pay as much attention to inspecting the flowers as the roses .

Vaporvac,

My Climbing Pink Don Juan struggled last growing season, 2021, a victim of no care received to speak of while I was rose garden care incapacitated by the hip surgeries. It died to the ground this past winter 21/22, and its 2022 growth from the crown is not strong.

However, its reputation for wonderful repeat bloom that it earned during its tenure here may serve it well and start it to build up soon. The big next question is, that since it is a black spotter, will its future be an ominous one for it no matter what? Probably. It's growing between Quick Silver, a phenom of a rose/climber extraordinaire, and Moonlight Romantica (grown as a climber), so its future looks as bleak as theirs looks rosy. If I was willing to spray for black spot,,my Pink Climbing Don Juan would be given extraordinary advantages and allowances to recover.

Converting to no spray for disease was a decision that led/leads me to making difficult, unexpected decisions.

Moses

Moses you're on to something with the no spray yardstick.

At the end of summer I used to be physically and emotionally exhausted from nursing the roses along . Three years of Austin canker was nerve racking. I must have gotten some warped pleasure out of being needed by spoiled demanding plants that ate up all my time.

This is the year for big changes, less is more, and healthy is far better. I love the garden again. Instead of it being a huge burden crowding out everything else in my life, now I have time to make the dog's birthday cake .

Berrypie,

You will realize more and more over time that your change in gardening tactics was one of the best moves you made.

Moses

YES, thank you so much Moses. It's painful to let go, but great to take hold of a new way. It just dawned on me the last few days since reading your post.

Every single leaf of Madame Anisette is perfect, unbelievable !

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“Every single leaf of Madame Anisette is perfect, unbelievable !”

berrypie teed it up for you very nicely, Moses.

Rifis, yes, timing is everything.

Moses

How are you feeling Moses ?

Kristine,

Tomorrow will be one week since my spinal surgery, a laminectomy, which involved removing opposite bone spurs on one vertebra which grew toward the spinal chord, 'pinching,' it. This caused excruciating pain in both thigh muscles (of all places!), that made walking, standing, stooping, bending and sitting extremely painful. Only lying down relieved the pain. There is/was no back pain whatsoever, surprisingly.

The after surgery pain was extreme at first, both at the incision site and in the thigh muscles, but day by day, the pain in all locations is diminishing. I have several activity restrictions until Labor Day. The expectation is that by early Fall, my thigh muscle pain will be either greatly diminished or completely gone.

I will say that the operation was successful. My recovery is going very nicely, although slower than I expected.

I cannot thank you, Kristine, and all my Roses Forum friends for your prayers and support. You will have to wait until you make it to heaven to know how effective you were in me having a successful surgery and good recovery. The lift you all gave my spirit knowing how much you care, and how much you extended your hearts to me, is phenomenal. Thank you!

Moses

We love you Moses!

Moses,

I was interested to see you have Poseidon (in fact, 2). I don’t recall you mentioning it previously. You have written about Quick Silver several times.

Which did you plant first? And once you had that one, what prompted you to acquire the other variety? Can you please compare and contrast them? I do know that QS is a climber, and Poseidon (which I have) is is an aspiring climber.

Rifis,

Poseidon is black spot proof, for sure, but a fair evaluation of it as to how it performs in my garden needs to be put off for a couple years still.

The gallon Poseidons I received from Chamblee's Nursery in the spring of 2020 were disappointingly puny (3" tall), not the size Chamblee usually ships. I planted them anyway into their permanent spots in the rose bed and although given good care all season long, they just sat there and barely got to 10" tall by season's end, although black spot free all along. They did have the drive to bloom, but the flowers were small as was expected under the circumstances.

Season 2, 2021, in my garden started off with me being unable to care for the roses at all, all season long. The Poseidon bushes came through winter unscathed, but pretty much fended for themselves, stalled, and bloomed as best they could, enlarged in size a bit, but nothing outstanding to report.

This year, 2022, their third in my garden, they came through winter again in top shape, are growing well, but truly, are about the size that a husky gallon size Poseidon would be by now in mid July, that went in this past spring.....two years lost in limbo for my sad Poseidons, both my fault for poor care last year, and Chamblee's fault for sending such puny bushes in 2020.

I believe that the bushes Chamblee's sent were not necessarily too young to ship, but runts/culls from their particular batch of 'propagation mates'. They were leftovers after the husky bushes were all sold, bushes which should have been shipped to their dumpster, not shipped to a customer, is what I suspect happened.

All along, I can happily, honestly report that they had no winter hardiness issues or black spot whatsoever.

Sorry for not being much help, Rifis, especially since yours is growing to climber potential which I cannot yet confirm its ability to be here, but at least winter hardiness and black spot resistance I can confirm.

BTW, what sold me on Poseidon were the photo of it on HMFR. The extraordinary shots, especially showing few weak necks, caused me to have dreams of if it doing the same here.

Moses

It has looked fantastic and robust in the two regional gardens I've seen it in.

Vaporvac,

I just need to give my Poseidons time, along with the proper care it deserves. Under such care, I suspect it will live up to attributes its deific name suggests.

Moses