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Yes, looks like a winner!!! Can't wait to see them get even better when they're planted in the ground!! Stunner!!

Carol

The perfume is great as well. Here it is sold as Forget-Me-Not and a percentage of the price goes to the Alzheimer's Foundation.

My Oklahoma has four tall, very stiff, very upright canes. I couldn't bend them or train them if I wanted to. Because I deep prune it stays to about 4 feet but would get taller than that if I let it.

Talk about variations. In my zone 6 (Kansas), my Oklahoma never gets over 3 feet tall. If you are losing some roses to winter cold, I wouldn't be too optimistic about Oklahoma. You may have to prune her back nearly to the soil line every spring. If so, she probably won't get any taller than mine.

Definitely not a climber. Typical hybrid tea form.

Kate

Mossy - my Floral Fairy Tale is own root and it's also from Roses Unlimited, who carry terrific roses own root. For anyone interested, they also sell Roberto Capucci. Just sayin - he needs to get his dues as well! I agree that it's a terrific rose and it does well in disparate climate including Ingrid's heat and my cold.

Cynthia

Thanks for your reassurances about Roses Unlimited, mossy. I do want to try Roberto. Now to find some space. Diane

Congratulations, RoseCandy! All those "sweet nothings" you were whispering to Tineke (or dare we say muttering at in dismay) have paid off! Glad it turned out to be a survivor for you.

Cynthia

" I have been happily computer illiterate" -- haha what a fun thing to read! I hope you get the chance to post photos of your roses this season (especially Tineke, for obvious reasons). Unfortunately without a digital camera of some kind that might still be impossible, unless I-pads have a camera built in them. Heh, I am, as you might say, happily I-pad illiterate XD.

nippstress thank you ^_^ I am SO happy it survived! I had read so many great things about it that it was that much more devastating when I lost it--and now more exciting that I haven't! When I found it alive all I could think about was how wonderful God is. If it starts out slow next spring I'll know to give it a good LONG while before giving up!.

Yep, that does look just like mine. Unfortunately mine didn't winter for me. I loved though so I may try and replace it. It just bloomed it's head off all season for me!

Thank you seil, I don't know why but I feel like doing the happy happy rose dance. Normally reserved for new spring arrivals.

Seil - I understand the "no chemical sprays" on eatables, but why do you think that chemical fertilizers would make them uneatable? Most of the food in the world, including the US, is grown with chemical fertilizers.

Jackie

You're right but that doesn't make them healthy for you! We eat way too many chemicals as it is and don't need to add more. When I'm growing food items in my garden I try to make them as healthy as possible so I don't use any chemicals on them at all.

Jac.. we don't even have gophers so I think Voles are out of the question. The only thing we have are scorpions, very large spiders, rattle snakes, maybe a rat maybe, if doesn't sting or bite, we don't have it. I don't spray or fert this time of year it puts to much stress on the plants. I let them have a vacation from July through mid Sept. I just water.

UP DATE: did everything we discussed and NADA. It all looks good no rocking, no animal has been digging around, the graft looks good, ok maybe its having an episode. If it is, it might as well get on with it. Thanks everyone for you suggestions and welcome to September.This is what some of the roses look like when I'm not trying to kill them.

No weed killer has been used anywhere close to this. Maybe it's just the pictures. Everything on these two roses look very healthy except for the buds and flowers. I just called Jackson and Perkins Roses, and they suggested thrips as Kentucky Rose did. I read up on thrips and didn't think so, but.....what do I know. So...I'm off to buy a 3 in 1 insecticide, miticide, and fungicide (JP's recommendation). Thanks so much for your help. I'll let you know when/if we solve this. Oh, yes, we are in Tupelo, MS (northern Mississippi). JP said to cut off all buds and flowers and then spray.

Yes please let us know how things turn out. There is a problem with the bottom lateral or cane but can't see it well enough to hazard a guess.

What a conference! Oh I wish I could have attended.

Henry, how does one obtain the full paper of the abstract in your second link?

I think that the first link gives everything that was reported. One could write the author and request a reprint (which is normally distributed when the paper is published). My main disappointment was that the individual names of the resistant roses were not given. But, it appears that they would like to get another year of data before doing that.

Thanks Susan! I love RU too! They always send healthy roses and Pat is so helpful!

I agree that Long Ago Roses is great! I just received 4 lovely plants from her- including two Austins.

Mary - when you have decided what to do, please let us in on your rose purchasing plans, and post some pictures of them on here next Spring - can't wait to see them!

Jackie

Will do, Jackie. I'll be combing through all the great advice and resources posted here. Thanks again!

This article discusses how one Emaravirus virus, Fig Mosaic Virus, infection may convert from a latent one to an active one.

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1560/V4QW-7QQH-MUAH-PX09#.VeNlkTZRE2w

A possible latent period of more than a year is mentioned in this talk:

https://ashs.confex.com/ashs/2015/videogateway.cgi/id/1935?recordingid=1935

countrygirl_sc, most likely you have two different versions of the operating systems and/or different versions of the browser. Bring them up to date and your problems should go away. However, I hear the new version 10 of Windoze is giving a lot of people fits so you may want to hold off for a few months until the bugs are fixed. Of course you could get a Mac but that's just my opinion.... lol

Toolbelt, my husband agrees with you! He downloaded(?) Windows 10 a couple of weeks ago and is having a lot of problems. He said yesterday that he wished he'd waited a few months. (I'm not computer savvy and am still wading through ' I-pad for Dummies')

Melodye

So the Blue Jays left, I would not nest where my babies will become crow food either. Maybe the leader of this band of murders will pass away and peace can be restored.

Here is a link to everything you need to know about Ravens. In fact from what it states they will be having it out with some Falcons very soon. That should be very interesting to watch.

http://www.baltimoreravens.com/

To locate a crow roosting area just go out at dust or dawn and record the direction the crows are flying. Do this from more than one location then plot all of the direction onto a map. Where all of the lines cross is their roosting area. Wear boots if you plan on walking around in that woods as the ground could be covered a foot deep with their droppings. People have tried using fireworks at night to drive them off but most times they keep coming back. So think twice before you tempt them into hanging around…..