Alexander McQueen's Red Rose dress collection
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What's Your Favorite Red Rose?
Comments (82)My personal favorite is The Squire. In my humble opinion, Oklahoma is better than Mr. Lincoln. The flowers are darker red, more refined, and smell stronger. There are huge healthy ten foot bushes of it around Santa Cruz. I've grown Papa Meilland budded and own root, presently I have a virus indexed own root plant from Vintage Gardens. In all these years and different permutations, it has grown in small zig-zags, and the flower color has been more magenta red than blackish crimson. I keep hoping it will improve and look like the pictures of Papa Meilland, but it won't perform unless coddled and given high culture. I've given up this year and ordered Charles Mallerin instead to replace Papa Meilland. Depending on your needs, these red roses are worthy of your attention: Black Baccara Oklahoma Royal Canadian Crimson Bouquet Lavaglut Sympathie Linda Campbell Black Jade Climbing Altissimo Doorenbos Selection (Camara is one of my favorites, but its coloring is vermilion with tips blushing black -- not a true red)...See MoreFavoriter red or white roses?
Comments (13)oh, white roses - my favourites. How to choose though. Would have to start with the fabulous Nevada - like a stately galleon, sailing across the grass/weed patch. Like Mariannese, i must put in a vote for the charming double white. As a rule, single roses have always stole my heart but these dainty cupped blossoms, alomg with the delicious ferny leaves, fit brilliantly amongst the untidy vegetable profusion of the allotment. Because I have many timber supports in the raised beds (there are currently 23 of these beds) I grow more climbers and ramblers than shrubs or bushes. Much as I would like great swathes of Wedding Day, Seagull et al, I have to be content with just a couple of large white roses so have chosen R.soulieana, R.helenae and the gorgeously fragrant, if a tad touchy in the famously nippy easterly winds, Nastarana. Finally, another vote for a Pemberton classic, Moonlight. One of his earliest and imo, one of his best hybrid musks. It is still throwing out bloom clusters, arching out and up, entangling with an unruly Snowgoose (a surprise Austin addition to the list) Red......hmmm, not my fave colour although a 10 year old moyesii is truly fabulous, underplanted with stooled purple filberts and an equally vivid tanacetum - yay. I do not have Souv.de Dr.Jamain although I have planted several for customers. A lovely rose but Etoile d'Hollande is still my favourite velvet red. Lastly, a simple 'cottagey' rose I do have is Paul's Scarlet climber - always fresh, bright and easier to site in a rambling allotment, than most reds (which always seem more formal and 'grown up' for my garden style)....See MoreWhat seeds are you Collecting??
Comments (33)Collecting all wildflowers here, as I didn't have much of a garden this year. Wildflowers going to seed here include an ornamental (or wild) grass with a very pretty influorescence (I don't know my grasses at all), tall thistle, boneset, eupatorium coelistinium, a pretty medium height small-flowered white aster/fleabane - most all of these are in the "weeds" category, but I'm hoping when we get a more permanent location, it will have an area big enough for a wildflower area. In bloom that haven't gone to seed yet - a gorgeous honeysuckle - smells divine, jasmine-y, and sweet autumn clematis. I'm working on identifying some fruits, too - I scarfed a couple that are drying that are size and color of kiwis, growing on a vine in the woods. And I plucked an orange-reddish one from a tree in a meadow yesterday - not ready to pluck seeds from yet, but just for id - which DH thinks might be a persimmon - too cool! Anyway, I have to grow all these first before trading them - the flowers all have the potential to be invasive, and the 2 fruits I don't want to trade unless I know for certain what they are - don't want to trade as edible anything that in fact might be poisonous....See MoreMadame Alexander and a Hess Fire Truck
Comments (10)Every year Hess is still putting out a new truck. This year Santa brought my son a Hess Truck - it's a truck with a helicopter, too. Your Hess Truck is from 1970, originally sold for $1.69, and is a replica of the fire engine used at the Hess refinery in Perth Amboy, N.J.. One just sold on eBay (in perfect condition) for $505. Here's what one site says about it: This bright red fire truck was a replica of the fire engine used at the Hess refinery in Perth Amboy, N.J.. This 11 inch long pumper truck has a detachable extending ladder and hoses on either side. A swiveling water cannon sits on top. This was easily broken off. Finely detailed. Marked "Louis Marx and Company, Inc. on the bottom chromed chassis along with the date in Roman Numerals "MCMLXX" (1970). One of the hardest Hess Trucks to find it is a popular cross-collectible with fire truck and other specialty collectors. The box features pictures of the fire truck pumper and Hess refinery scene. The box is marked "Hess Oil and Chemical Division, Amerada Hess Corporation. In 1971 reissued this same fire truck. Sometime during that year the Company must have run out of the silk-screened boxes and substituted a plain white box with a sticker on the top that reads "Seasons Greetings". This box is extremely hard to find....See More
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