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RE: Old Rose Program

I'm really enjoying all the responces from this "thread", and would
like to thank you all, keep them coming. Great ideas.

> Val in KY asked:     
> 
> What is the make-up of your rose club?  
> Mostly hybrid tea lovers?  

It's really a "garden" club.  Wish we had a local Old Rose club.
(Having fun now.)  Never know, perhaps I'll have to start one. ekkk..
(That's another subject.)  Only a few are "into" roses. One member I
know, is really "into" her HT's.  Several know of my love for Old
Roses and have encouraged and even clipped articles for me. One has
re-discovered an "Ancestor" rose of her grandmothers recently, and
another  (after I noticed a pimpinellifolia in her old garden) have a
new curiousity.  Ah...the stage is set. 

If so,
> they are going to want to hear why they should consider old roses.

I was thinking of that too. Just share what brought me to the Old
Roses.

> Emphasize the fact that they don't require as much maintenance and
live
> longer.  They give a better "country garden" feel to the garden
because
> they are so bushy/blousey vs. the lanky look of hybrid teas.  The
blooms
> are have a more diversified form than what you can find in teas
(ex:
> cabbage, single-petaled, etc).  I would also talk about some of the
old
> roses that have blooms most of the season, or at least give fall
interest
> with the color change of leaves (two of my old roses turn a
wonderful
> bronze-red and another one gives bright cherry-red hips).

Oh yes, don't get me started. Love your picture words, "country
garden", blousey, lanky... hope you don't mind me stealing them. :-)
 
> I know you only have 30 minutes, but you could also throw in a line
about
> how these old roses can give a rose garden structure and form by
providing
> bulk in the back of a border.  You know that some can get pretty
big/wide!

All the things I love about old roses. I'm sure they'll be think I'm
"selling" something. Heck, with these roses, one good twig and we can
all "share".  Hard to find a "down-side" to old roses.  True; many
once blooming, but with such color, fragrance, various blooms, style
and grace. Throw in some History, mystery and romance and no one's
going home the same.  

Will give them this list-address, though most aren't into "internet",
we just country folk. :-)

Sincerely,       
Carleen Rosenlund of Rainier, Oregon -USDA-8
Sweetbriar - Keeper of Sheep & Old Roses
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