Do You Keep Accurate Records of Your Roses?
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Comments (11)What I wrote was totally in fun - not serious at all, of course, but I do have to say that I'm almost always unwilling to just give up on a plant and toss it. Usually, if something has gone wrong I (personally speaking) consider it grower error and need to find out where the error was and correct it. For me - it usually involves my having been lax and letting repot time slip past w/o the 'repot' part of 'repotting time' taking place, so the plant has to go through another entire growth cycle under extremely root-bound conditions. I rarely have any problems growing something that has room for roots to run; ...... and then too, I've got that whole bluff/bluster/threaten thing perfected to help keep any stubborn or aberrant plants in line, so ....... ;o) Al...See MoreHow do you keep your gardens organized?
Comments (29)I currently have about 350 varieties of roses and 500-600 plants scattered over a garden of two acres or so. Most of the roses are old or older varieties, which means I not infrequently get mislabeled or misnamed plants, probably more than if I had mostly modern varieties (I'm guessing about this). So a system for keeping track of my roses is imperative. I put a label on every rose or on a stake next to it. In my experience labels get lost easily. So I also make maps of the various sections of the garden, with roses and other plants shown by name. Then I maintain an Excel spreadsheet with rose name, class, nursery or person I got it from, and a comments section. I have my roses listed on Helpmefind as well, though this is more for other gardeners who want to know what roses I have than for myself. If I do all this religiously I can keep track of my roses, though there are always a number of mysteries, many of them roses I'm given by other gardeners or propagate from cuttings. I'd go crazy with frustration if I had to rely on memory alone. Melissa...See MoreHow do you keep track of your roses' names?
Comments (46)SeattleSuze and Wild Rose: Even if you don't have a scanner, I think you could take it to a Kinko's and have them scan it and place the file on a CD for you. I'd make sure the drawing to be scanned is done in black ink on a white paper, clean lines - have it scanned at a resolution of 600 or 1200 and saved as line art (NOT in pixels). It can be saved as a line Photoshop file (an .eps), at which time you can reduce the resolution to 300. Then it can be placed into a file in your word processing program (on a Mac, something like PageMaker or QuarkXPress - I'm not familiar with the Microsoft programs). The beauty of this type of Photoshop file is that you can use it as though it is transparent, with just the lines showing, and you can place colored or patterned background behind it to show through - say, a pink background, with a dark color chosen for the line, say crimson. Of course, that is just playing around. For a plain workaday chart, you can just place the file into your WP program as a plain black-and-white illustration. Either way, once your art is placed into the WP program, you can just type in the names where you want them. I should mention that it's been a few years since I was doing this kind of work, and I imagine there have been some changes in these programs, the world of software being what it is. But if you know someone who's into all this, or if there's a Kinko's nearby, something LIKE this can be done. I don't know for sure if Kinko's performs a scanning service, but I do know that they used to have "design stations" where, for a fee, you could work on their equipment. Good luck. Laura...See MoreHow do you keep track of your daylilies?
Comments (27)Long time lurker here. I created an Access database for all my garden plants, including daylilies, and would be utterly lost without it. I can track all the plants I currently have, as well as all the ones I've lost over the years. I can run reports on different suppliers and see whose plants I kill most regularly and which survive my attentions. Unfortunately, as Julie said above, I can no longer deny that I am a plant addict. With well over 2600 entries (one for each plant) and a report that adds up the costs (what was I thinking when I wrote that one???), I can see my garden probably cost more than my car! Fortunately, here in the great, white north, rust will only be a problem with the car!...See Moretitian1 10b Sydney
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