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Re: New member

Hello Fran,

Oh, yes, I'll be organized all right in November, it's hard to worry about
weeds when you'll be trying to get around in a couple of feet of snow!!!!! 
However for the winter deep snow here acts as a blanket for my three rose
plants ( actually more than three - they multiplied on their own-  they are
old roses I don't know what kind they came with the house and were planted
in the early l940's and the last people who owned the house just called
them roses red, white and pink.)

All the best in your endevours,

Pat, 
Rolla, B.C.
(just 20 kilometers north east of Dawson Creek (Mile 0 of the Alaska
Highway)

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> From: apearce@academy.net.au
> To: rose-list@eskimo.com
> Subject: New member
> Date: August 28, 1997 11:32 AM
> 
>         I'm sorry I've taken so long to introduce myself to other members
of
> the list.  The work I need to do in my rose garden at the moment is so
> overwhelming I don't have time for much else.  For the last 18 months I
have
> been involved in rose hybridising.  This is great fun but takes so much
time
> and energy the garden is becoming chronically neglected, a problem
> compounded by my over-enthusiastic planting this Winter of more roses to
use
> in hybridising.  I live near Adelaide in South Australia where Spring
> officially begins next Monday.  I have only just finished planting the
new
> roses.  Meanwhile the old roses await pruning which I've only just begun
-
> at least 6 weeks late.  I'm hoping - rather feebly - that Spring will
delay
> its onset!  After pruning I need to do my annual weeding and fertilising.
> The only way I can cope with a garden far too big to be sensibly managed
is
> to weed it just the once in Spring and then mulch it so heavily with pea
> straw that weeds will be deterred till the next winter.  The Spring
weeding,
> however, is quite a task and, of course, easier if the pruning is
finished
> on time.  I'm beginning to day-dream about hedge clippers and chain saws
and
> certainly to wonder if I'll get through a fraction of it before that
> miraculous first flush of roses in November - when, of course, I'll have
to
> start hybridising again....  I frequently long for a couple of clones. 
If
> there were three of me...
>         At least I can comfort myself as I struggle in knee-deep weeds to
> prune my sprouting roses that this description of my ineffectual attempts
to
> keep on top of looming antipodean tasks will make you all feel, by
contrast,
> very efficient and organised, perfectly in control of your lives and
> gardens!  Best wishes to you all from Fran Pearce.
>
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