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| I received an email back from the city Forrester, and he said that he was not only okay with me going in to clean up the roses, but that he thinks planting roses in the cemetery is a great idea. His only request was that we decide on locations so that the roses get water. |
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- Posted by roseblush1 8a/Sunset 7 (My Page) on Fri, Sep 13, 13 at 17:06
| Good for you, Josh. I would do the same here four our church, but our deer population makes it totally impossible to have a rose garden in our cemetery. Please share progress photos ! Smiles, |
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| Congratulations, Josh. When we planted a heritage rose garden near my house, Antique Rose Emporium was really helpful. Please -- can I get you to send me reports on the project? Heritage Roses Group is very interested! Jeri Jennings |
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| Josh, that is great! I'll get busy this fall taking cuttings from my yard if you're interested. I've already got a Cl Pinkie that's been going for about a year if you're interested. Hmmm, I wonder if Farmers Branch would let us take cuttings (for a good cause, of course, lol). I plan to go on Oct. 19 to their Rose Celebration and will do some checking... ogrose |
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| That's so cool! What a fun project. Best of luck! |
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| I am very excited for this, thanks for the support everyone! Mrs. Jennings, I would be happy to keep you and the HRG updated on the progress of the project. As it stands right now, I am trying to get together a list with ogrose, as well as making sure that list does not become too lengthy. I don't want to scare off the Forrester by descending on the cemetery with a forest of roses. Josh |
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| Nope. Sneak 'em in, 1-2 at a time. :-) Jeri |
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| That's so great Josh. It's going to be exciting to share in this wonderful venture with you via pictures and updates. Ingrid |
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- Posted by zeffyrose_pa6b7 6b7 (My Page) on Sat, Sep 14, 13 at 13:50
| This sounds wonderful---You are using your youth and health to make this planet and a cemetary more beautiful---I admire what you are doing. Florence |
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| That's really cool Josh! I can't wait to see the in progress pictures. :) |
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- Posted by cemeteryrose USDA 9/Sunset 14 (My Page) on Sat, Sep 14, 13 at 21:49
| Josh, this is wonderful news. Be very aware of the mature sizes of the roses that you plant and that they not block the headstones or aisleways. There were many roses grown in old cemeteries in Texas and those survivors - often Teas and Chinas and some noisettes - are where I'd start looking for candidates. Duchesse de Brabant was one of the most commonly planted in the South and West, I understand. Marie Pavie was often planted on little girls' graves. Thomas Christopher's book "In Search of Lost Roses" tells a lot about Texas and other found roses. MIke Shoup of ARE was one of those rose rustlers - the rose rustlers are still active today although they aren't collecting so much as they are sharing and growing and tending the roses. Many of the Earthkind roses are the original found "rustled" roses. I'll be glad to share any experience that I have in tending roses in the Sacramento cemetery. Climbing roses are a bit of an issue - you need to have a support structure for them and it takes some work to keep them tidy - but we have many, often going up rebar arches, and they are a wonderful sight. Keep us posted! Email me directly if you'd like - anitac @ surewest. net (no spaces). I'm a member of the HRG, too, and on the board of the Heritage Rose Foundation. Pam Smith of Farmer's Branch is on the board and Mike Shoup is a past president and current advisor, and will be speaking in Lakeland. If I can be of any help in getting you in contact with them, let me know. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Texas Rose Rustlers
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| AND you might try to look first for roses that have been found in TX cemeteries. There's a really nifty red China -- "Magnolia Cemetery China" -- which was found in the historic Magnolia Cemetery. I believe 'Old Blush' is a common find -- and we have a pink China from my family's old cemetery, which I think is likely a sport or OP seedling of Old Blush. Those are great roses to start with, because they're known TX survivors. Jeri "The China From Adina": |
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| Great advice and great photo! |
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| Gorgeous picture, Jeri. That lavender-pink color is stunning. Ingrid |
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| I like the idea of Texas found roses. The only hiccup I can think of is that I simply don't know where to find a list of such roses! I also wanted to pose the question to everyone: Should we plant multiples of each plant, or let it be a sort of specimen garden? I like the idea of only one of each plant so that we can plant a wide variety of plants in the limited space we have. But I also know that planting more than one plant of each variety would allow us the opportunity to have a "backup" in the ground if one of a variety were to fail. Josh |
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