Re: Plant markers

Please understand folks, there is a reason I'm putting markers out.  When you have over 400-500 people touring your gardens, you don't want to be running around answering there questions, whats the name of that rose, what's the name of this rose.  I'm doing this to avoid loosing my voice by the end of the day :)

My garden has not had labels for over 10 years now.  I have catogrized and identified the roses on my website.  So I know where every single rose is, and what the name of it is.  I think the most horrible thing that happened to me whas when I bought my first rose, and never paid attention to the name of it.  5 years later, I couldn't remember the name of it.  So when people would ask, what is that beautiful coral rose, I had no idea.  Then, when I saw how easy they are to grow here, I began to relize that I needed to track them, and thus my website developed around that.  Since then I have found the name of my rose.  After several rosarians came out and identified it.  It was Tropicana.  Tropicana looks so pretty against my baby blue house, that even though it is not my best rose, I have kept it.  It is the only rose in my garden, which, without fail gets powdery mildew every year.  It's in shade most the day, and blooms big beautiful blooms, unrelentlessly...so I've never been able to get rid of it, even with the spring outbreak of powder mildes.  Bye June, the powdery mild disappears, I suspect because of our intense heat.  Anyway, now I'm rambling...but that is why it is important to me to know my roses by name :)

Chat with you later...
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Alan        Chandler, Arizona        Sunset Zone: 13

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Meum71@aol.com wrote:

In a message dated 2/23/2002 12:05:40 PM Central Standard Time, barp@idcnet.com writes:

i hate tags and labels in the garden yself- but when one has a lot of diffrent thngs that one can not keep in the ind ( less and less each year it seems)  you need soe way to know what you have.

i use a 1/2 or 3/4 inch wide white pvc piping, works great if you need a lor of roo to put down the name of the plant- wee it cae for and when you got it plus any other notes you need- cut the pices about 10 inches long a n stick the in the ground all the way.  the plants cove the pipes an if i need to go back and see what i have planted- i have just retrieve the pipe.  with a nursery marker they last 15 years so far.

Paul

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