RE: [Rose-list] Rose Beads

**"* S* <S*@schwabe.com>**

Oh dear Joanie, you've done it again. 

This went to the list!

Susan Saxton, zone 6b

For mine is a little old-fashioned garden where the flowers come
together to praise the Lord and teach all who look upon them to do
likewise.
Celia Thaxter

I AM in shape.  ROUND is a shape!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeaa1224@aol.com [J*@aol.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 01, 1999 10:18 AM
> To: rose-list@mallorn.com
> Subject: Re: [Rose-list] Rose Beads
> 
> 
> 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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