Re: [Rose-list] Rose Beads

**J*@aol.com**

In a message dated 6/28/99 1:05:20 PM Central Daylight Time, 
rosenlund@transport.com writes:

<<  hot pink Ispahan blooms
 would do.... perhaps I will save them for jam. >>

Hiiiiiii, Rosy....what's Ispahan?

Crazy here - too much going on - s&w starting early next week (I think), 
baring any
more downpours.

Terribly humid and will reach the 90's over the weekend and upper 90's on 
Monday.
Glad I'm not going to a picnic..no fun in this stuff. Dry heat's okay, but 
you can cut
this stuff with a knife.

Perused your proposed plans and I love it. Printed it out and just have one 
question:
to the left of the house is North, yes? I always get goofed up on that. The 
sketch you sent me last fall is looking from the house South, but South is at 
the top of the paper
so I always think I'm looking North - is this confusing? Anyway, so the 
Souveniur du Docteur Jamain will be in their preferred location. We have a 
similar problem here - very short on shady areas near the house. Need new 
beds desperately, maybe almost under the oaks so I can have some of those 
wonderful
shade plants I love. I feel new beds coming on...ooooh oh...see what you've 
done, Pooh Bear? It's so hard to believe what you've accomplished in one 
year, and it's 
nice to hear that Steve is impressed too.

That's neat about the rose beads...will they last long? Are they fragile? 
Does the 
fragrance last?

I can't figure out where to put an arbor or two. It has to either be an 
entrance or a 
mid-way point somewhere, and it will take new beds to have them work. I'd 
really like
to try grapes too. Didn't you tell me at one time that you were considering 
those too?
Are they difficult time wise to manage? What I'd really like to do is add a 
pergola from the house out over the patio. Do you know what they look like? 
In case not, 
there's a wonderful book by Jamie Garnock called "Trellis", 1991, by Thames 
and 
Hudson, Ltd. (Rizzoli, New York)....pergolas abound in there, and are kinda 
like
joists on top, secured to the ground by posts, but they are lovely and can be 
free-
standing anywhere you want them. Fabulous covered with vines and climbers. 
I've
been lusting for one since about the early 80's...and since we are desperate 
for shade on the patio, it would be just perfect. The only thing is I can't 
figure out how to
attach it to our low ranch-style roof...sounds costly and if not done right 
could incur
some leaks in the garden room, or worse yet, not know there was a leak in the 
attic
over it (no access) until it had done major damage. Ice is a real problem 
here as 
on warm days the snow melts and then freezes and expands and "grows" up under 
the roof shingles and lifts them straight up...bad news. Leaks, big time, can 
be the
result.

Anyway, I'm really hot to do this...then I see your expansion plans and my 
urge to
create more is fueled and snow balls into this huge urgency for more beds, 
pergolas
etc. Help! A pergola would also be a neat way of creating more beds (all 
around it)
and it would supply some needed shade too, on one side or two. The pergola I 
have
in mind for the yard would be quite large...maybe 50-60' feet long (like a 
vine-covered
arbor walk) and maybe a allee lined with pleached trees...ooooh, ah, trouble 
brewing
and no $$$$. Help. Look what you've done????  ;-P  And then, maybe a parterre
at the end with a lovely bench and shady nook with a fountain (small one) for 
the wildlife and maybe it would meet the fence back there and I could have 
some espalier of something along it...see, can't turn off the creative 
spiggot. Rats. Dreams
need to become reality...soon. Sob. I wonder if these two high schoolers (my 
slaves)
could do the patio pergola if my retired carpenter (who did all the work here 
in '88)
would act as overseer? Maybe there is hope...ooooh, ah...then I'd need to buy 
more
roses...oh, Rosy, will this intense desire to feather my outside nest ever 
quit????
Not til pigs fly, I'm afraid.

Glad the guys didn't trash the house while you and Lissa were gallavanting 
around
Oregon last weekend...you'd worked so hard to get it especially pretty for 
the garden
club members' visit. Guys have a way of doing that and not understanding what 
you're so upset about...they can't see the difference. Same thing here. 

Wow - those vegies sound yummy. Wish now I had put some in here and there with
the perennials...that was the plan, I believe, in February, when we were 
yakking about this years plantings. I never get done what I think I will each 
year, and I also
forget what I'd planned on doing, even tho I make copious notes, they have a 
way of
turning up long after I've finished the spring planting. Oh, well. Such is 
life. I just always think I'll remember and also be better organized. Must, 
must, must try to
get those potatoes in next year...we adore taters in any form you can think 
of. Susan sent me a recipe for some - maybe you have it already, but if not, 
here it is:
do not peel, but slice lengthwise longish bakers into 6th's or 8th's - toss 
with melted
butter and then toss with equal parts bread crumbs/parmesan cheese. Bake til 
done,
for her about 30 min. Didn't say how hot an oven or what temp, but I figure 
about 
400* for about that long. Oh, salt and pepper. Sounds good, eh? Gonna try 
this weekend. Meant to do it last weekend but not the right dinner to serve 
them with, but
with burgers tonight will be just right, albeit a fattening dinner - so what 
- I'm in that
sorta mood - Piglets get that way sometimes.

Interesting about sheep and A.I. and also that they don't do well with 
aenesthesia.
Hmmm. Could make some things a tad tricky, eh? Guess you'll always have a 
problem then with a new ram from time to time.  Scary. What happened with the 
son
of the one you saw at the fair? Is he all healed up? Will you go with him? If 
his father
is so large, wouldn't he tend to produce huge lambs and in turn be really 
tough on the ewes at lambing time??? Ouch.

Must dash - will read again (already have about 6 times) your proposed plans 
for the
new beds....once again, North is to the left of the front door, yes? That 
sure seems like a logical area to expand into int the future...after this new 
phase...or am I standing on the driveway? I need to compare it to last fall's 
plan again. Yes, I've got
it right, I think.

All for now, Rosy Bo Peep...write when you can and don't feel guilty - we're 
all busy
in the summer - so much more to do - and this time I've been delinquent, not 
you.

B-a-a-a-a-a-a.........Joanie

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