Marion's Retirement

[Jessica_Rose]

@ChrissyRyan , I don't know what I have done to earn your praise, but thank you. Many people have come before me on this site, and many will come after. I like to think I'm simply repaying the help I received from those whose footsteps I follow. Since I enjoy music, I'll add Wendy Carlos to the list. She composed the score to 'A Clockwork Orange', 'The Shining', and 'Tron'.

Love always -- Jessica Rose

[ChrissyRyan]

@ChrissyRyan , I don't know what I have done to earn your praise, but thank you. Many people have come before me on this site, and many will come after. I like to think I'm simply repaying the help I received from those whose footsteps I follow. Since I enjoy music, I'll add Wendy Carlos to the list. She composed the score to 'A Clockwork Orange', 'The Shining', and 'Tron'.

Love always -- Jessica Rose

Jess,

You just continue being you.  Keep that love in your heart and let it continue to shine through your actions.

Hugs,

Chrissy

[Maid Marion]

Doogie's, a hotdog restaurant in the middle of Connecticut, has one of these Progress Pride flags hanging inside.

[Maid Marion]

Easter holiday shopping at the grocery store.
This is a great time to buy ham on sale.  I bought a fully cooked boneless 4 lb ham for $12.
I also got a free dozen ready to cook meatballs with that purchase, so I got 5 lbs of meat for just $12!

Grocery store routinely offer great deals around holidays.  Sometimes a couple weeks in advance.
So do most big box stores.  The employees would much rather have you buy sale items early rather than waiting to the last moment like everyone else.

[ChrissyRyan]

Any roses of your blooming yet Marion?


Chrissy

[Maid Marion]

In my yard the first roses are usually just before Memorial Day at the end of May.

I'm busy taking out the invasive weeds that were planted as ornamentals by former neighbors.
They were nice to look at but insist upon spreading through my rose beds via runners.
Fortunately they are under control after a lot of work and I'm taking out the last few stragglers this year.

[davina61]

I want to move a climbing rose and its starting to put out new growth, will it be okay to move it?

[Maid Marion]

Yes, you can move it now.  But the roots should roughly balance the top part, so may be sacrificing a lot of blooms moving it now versus moving it when it was dormant if you lose a lot of the root system.
I have moved Hybrid Tea and mini roses in the early spring to new locations and won trophies a couple months later!
The worst time to move a rose is just after it has bloomed.

I had a chance to meet one of top French rose growers at a National Convention.
He said that exhibiting roses isn't done in Continental Europe.  It is just the UK and the USA.

[davina61]

Thanks, need to wait for a dry day and then move it to grow up the rose arch.

[Maid Marion]

I prefer to put perhaps a foot of space between a rose and support like an arch.
Roses throw more laterals when the canes are closer to horizontal than vertical.
It is often easier to work on the canes when you have more space.

[Maid Marion]

I've decided to eat out more this year.
I had lunch today at Pepe's Pizza in West Hartford.
Surprised to see only two people at one table having a long lunch at 1PM.
I had the white clam pizza and chocolate milk.

My roses are growing really well this year.  So are the weeds. 

[davina61]

Not sure if the rose I moved will do any good as had to cut through the main root to get it out, mum has kept watering it.

[Maid Marion]

They sell roses with small root systems that eventually get big with proper care.