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Antique Roses Roses

For those of you (like me) who miss Vintage Gardens

3 years ago

The collection of roses still exists, even though the nursery is long gone. Once in a great while they have a rose sale as a fund raiser to keep the roses going. That rose sale is coming up now. There is no shipping - you'd have to pick them up in person - but if you are interested, take a look.

http://thefriendsofvintageroses.org/rose-sale/

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summersrhythm_z6a

3 years ago

They'd make more money if they ship.

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Sheila z8a Rogue Valley OR
3 years ago
There are fantastic roses on this list. Thank you, Rosefolly. Anyone in the area would want to be there.
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catspa_zone9sunset14
3 years ago
It was so, so good to see roses on that list that are not only fantastic but very difficult to get these days ("Zalud House Shingled Raspberry"! 'Comtesse de Rocquigny'!). Just reading the list was a thrill. Well, okay, I sent an email with a request or two, too.... :-)
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susan9santabarbara
3 years ago
last modified: 3 years ago
Rosefolly, thanks so much for posting this. I've been meaning to become a member of the Friends of Vintage for a long time. It's so great that they have been able to keep this collection going. I still miss Vintage ever so much... I probably bought more roses from them (and the late Pickering) than anyone else back in the day. And on a personal note (although I'm sure you don't remember me), I still have the Peter Mayle you gave me when a group of us GardenWeb folks came to your house for dinner back in the early 2000s!
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Vaporvac Z6-OhioRiverValley
3 years ago
I'm saving that second link just for the description of the Roses.
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Rosefolly
Original Author
3 years ago
last modified: 3 years ago
Susan, I do remember that event! I had forgotten you were there. Let me see, Cindi from Texas, Rosebud (Steve) from Georgia, Susan from Northern California, and I'm not sure who else. Were Luanne and Carol Markell there that time? There were close to a dozen of us. It was the first but definitely not the last time that I met Gardenweb rose people in person. In fact if I am not mistaken it was the first time GW rose people got together in the Real World, something that happens a lot these days, or did before the pandemic. The event was centered on the ARS rose show in San Jose, and it was a good while ago. Maybe 1996?

Thank you for bringing back that happy memory. I had such a good time.

Also, am I remembering correctly that you had a problem with oak root fungus and your roses? I lost a Rosette Delizy to a root rot disease a few years ago, and I thought of you when it happened. Fortunately I haven't seen it happen to any other roses. Cutting back on the watering turns out to be good for something.
susan9santabarbara
3 years ago
Rosefolly, it was in 2002 when the national ARS convention was in San Jose. Yes, Cindi from TX, Steve/Rosebud, and EelRiver Susan. Pretty sure that Luanne and Carol were there. Definitely a few others... Richard from Bakersfield? The dinner at your house was wonderful, and it was an overall amazing long weekend of events. That was when I first discovered the San Jose Heritage Rose Garden, which I visited frequently after that. I used to go on a lot of rose road trips up to the Bay Area and Mendocino county in the early to late 2000s. I can't believe that you remember that I had oak root fungus! I tried to battle it, but lost a lot of roses and some trees in the front garden. Since then, I now grow most of my roses in large pots on pavers in the front garden, but still are some happy in the ground. I disappeared from GW from ~2010-2020, but I recently retired from teaching chemistry for 33 years, so I came back.
Rosefolly
Original Author
3 years ago
last modified: 3 years ago
Hmmm, I thought it had been here twice. But never mind, I'm sure you're right. Yes, I think Richard was here. I think MendocinoRoses (Pamela) and her husband were here as well, that being the beginning of our Real World friendship. We are good friends to this day. I'm sorry to say that Carol is no longer living, and Luanne has a debilitating long-term illness so I don't get to see much of her these days, certainly not during the pandemic. As for Richard and Steve, I have not heard from either of them in years. I used to hear from Cindi now and then, but her email got hacked and we lost touch. I felt bad about that. She used to call us the "California girls", which was rather fun.

I'm glad to have you back amongst us again.
susan9santabarbara
3 years ago
last modified: 3 years ago
Rosefolly, I was sort of thinking that Pamela and Michael might have been there too, which would have been where I first met them. But in the several years after that, I visited their garden and home several times, so I thought I might have confused their being there. I'm so sorry to hear about Carol and Luanne. I'm no longer in touch with any of the others. LOL, I do remember Cindi calling us "the California girls". One of my favorite memories of Cindi was when we had a gathering at Pamela and Michael's house in Mendocino, and she drove down the wrong dirt road in her rental car, and was met by a guy with a shotgun. Ahh... the emerald triangle.

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