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Post by Phalon on Jun 24, 2008 4:26:40 GMT -6
I haven't seen 'Brother Cadfael' over here, Vox.....either the series, or the rose. But I don't watch much television, and there are so many rose varieties that it's impossible to know them all.
Kind of a neat story about a rose that happened just yesterday. A new variety for us at the nursery this year is called 'Grandma's Blessing'. It's a shrub rose with a large medium-pink hybrid tea-like flower, (hybrid teas don't do well here; the grafts fail over the winter). A woman came in not quite knowing what she was looking for; when asked if she needed help, she said "I'll know it when I see it". She found it when saw the 'Grandma's Blessing' roses in full bloom. We only had eight left, and she bought them all. When my boss helped her load them in her vehicle, she came away with tears in her eyes after hearing why the woman chose 'Grandma's Blessing'. Her grandfather had just died - he, of course, was 'Grandma's Blessing'. The eight roses were just enough for each of his grandchildren to have in their gardens as a memorial to their grandfather.
Psst, Joxie....I heard that.
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Post by vox on Jun 24, 2008 14:00:54 GMT -6
What a lovely story Phalon!, I found a rose with the same name as MG's Mum one day, but when I went back to get it, I couldn't find it!. I daresay that if we tried, we could come up with a rose named after everyone! Getting back to Brother Cadfael, if you like detective series, this one you'd like. Brother Cadfael was a monk in the Benedictine abbey of St Peter and St Paul in 12th century Shrewsbury, near the Welsh Border. Based on the books written by Ellis Peters. MG has been collecting them, he is now collecting the DVD's.
Anyway, that's enough of boring you! Speak soon, take care!
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Post by Mini Mia on Jun 24, 2008 18:24:53 GMT -6
Psst, Joxie....I heard that.
 Heard what? 
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Post by Phalon on Jun 25, 2008 5:23:15 GMT -6
Oh....nothing, I suppose. I just thought I heard someone whisper the big 5 - 0, but I must have been mistaken. <snicker, snicker>
Pfft, Vox. Boring? Not in the least; it's me who tends to ramble on and on about gardening. I'm afraid though, we made Moonglum's mornings all flowery......though he's the one who started it!
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Post by vox on Jun 25, 2008 13:36:55 GMT -6
Yeah, maybe we did Phalon! thanks for telling me I'm not boring!
and Jox there is nothing wrong with the big 50!
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Post by Mini Mia on Jun 25, 2008 17:00:24 GMT -6
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Post by Phalon on Jun 27, 2008 4:22:12 GMT -6
He can always look at it this way.....now his mornings fiery hot, filled with women baring roses.
No one's gotta know it's women comparing garden notes, and the fiery hotness refers to the flaming folder next to the thread title.
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Post by vox on Jun 27, 2008 11:02:54 GMT -6
BOLL! I am sure that's exactlywhat he would want Phalon!
'baring women' wouldn't all men?
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Post by Phalon on Jun 28, 2008 6:32:13 GMT -6
Oooops!!!
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Post by vox on Jun 28, 2008 10:48:35 GMT -6
He He! you're okay!
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Post by Phalon on Jul 6, 2008 22:32:04 GMT -6
Here I go mucking up Moonglum's East Anglian Morning with my Southwest Michigan Night. But, Vox - here's a few of those rose pictures I said I'd post. Nothing fancy - just a few varieties that have been around forever. The first two are my Fairy Roses - I planted one for each of my girls, because my friend always calls them my pixies. I have a Red Fairy elsewhere in the yard; I love these roses - no care what-so-ever, and they still bloom from June until frost.   This last one is a Seven Sisters. It was one of the only things that was in the yard, except the maples, when we bought the house. Mowed down a few times by Hubs, but again, it takes no care at all, (are you sensing a trend here with me and roses), though it only blooms once in early summer. She's a b!tch to try and keep on the trellis though - I think there are three trellis' supporting the thing.  |
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Post by Phalon on Jul 6, 2008 22:33:44 GMT -6
Joxie! Help! I have resized these things in Photobucket twice, and damnit, they are supposed to fit! <grumble, grumble> Photobucket's new upgrades. Pfft!!!
They are sized in Photobucket to fit a website - 320px by something-or-other, but when I checked the properties here they are about a billion by a billion. I'm not quite understanding the instructions on the previous page that you gave Vox for resizing. 'Course that shouldn't surprize you, should it?
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Post by Mini Mia on Jul 6, 2008 23:17:28 GMT -6
They are 340px by 240px on my computer. They look fine. You may need to refresh the page a couple of times to get the new size to show up on your computer. Or clean out your temp files. I'm pretty sure that's your problem. 
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Post by Phalon on Jul 7, 2008 5:58:02 GMT -6
Clearing the temp files did the trick, Oh Fairly Bored Mom....and you didn't even need to wave the Fairy wand over my Fairy roses. A price discount for that?
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Post by vox on Jul 7, 2008 14:09:09 GMT -6
Beautiful pictures Phalon, love the seven sisters! tell me, what is the yellow flower in front?
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Post by Mini Mia on Jul 7, 2008 16:27:04 GMT -6
Clearing the temp files did the trick, Oh Fairly Bored Mom....and you didn't even need to wave the Fairy wand over my Fairy roses. A price discount for that?
Sure, how's 5% off? 
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Post by Phalon on Jul 8, 2008 5:55:16 GMT -6
Those are run-of-the-mill 'Stella d' Oro' daylilies, Vox. I love daylilies for their versatility. Sun, all but the deepest shade, sandy soils or hard-packed clay - they do very well in my yard, and I've got a bunch of different varieties in all colors all over the place. LMAO, at myself. You can ask me the same question each day of the week - "What's your favorite flower?" - and each day I'd probably answer differently, but daylilies are high on my list.
Can that be used in combination with the special two-for-the price-of-one coupon offer I cut out off the back of the box?
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Post by Mini Mia on Jul 8, 2008 14:39:54 GMT -6
Sure, why not? 
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Post by moonglum on Jan 2, 2009 10:37:48 GMT -6
The last few mornings of 2008 and the first two of 09 have not been that bad. The temp has hovered around the zero mark through the nights and peaked today at 6. So far (16.30), the snow predicted for today has not materialised. Not for our corner of the country anyway.
Vox says I'm going to be incredibly boring from now on. She bought me my own weather station for christmas. They say the British are obsessed with the weather. Possibly, but I like to think of it as a 'healthy fascination'. Probably stems from the fact that it's so changeable and unpredictable here, and so much of what we humans do is dependant on it being, at least, reasonable.
I'm meandering again. Still, you can't beat a good meander once in a while.
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Post by Phalon on Jan 3, 2009 9:35:08 GMT -6
I agree, Moonglum - you can't beat a good "me"ander; it clears the head. Reading other people's anderings are good too. I'm glad you brought this thread back up - it, and your 'view from a window' are two of my favorites for taking a meander off my front porch.
Hubs would be in weather watcher envy with you and your new weather station - he fancies himself an "armchair meterologist". I never thought about getting him a weather station - I'm not even sure what a weather station is....looks like a two-minute drill is in order sometime before Father's Day. In the meantime, the Old Farmer's Almanac Weather Watcher's calendar that was in his Christmas stocking will have to suffice.
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Post by moonglum on Jan 3, 2009 12:49:26 GMT -6
Hubs would be in weather watcher envy with you and your new weather station - he fancies himself an "armchair meterologist". I never thought about getting him a weather station - I'm not even sure what a weather station is....looks like a two-minute drill is in order sometime before Father's Day. Woke up this morning to a thick frost and a temp of -5C. Today the grand hunt for a book on weather forecasting began and .............. ended. The ever reliable Waterstones had three or four on their shelves. This one has a forward by a well-known weather presenter from British TV. He is the man who in 1987, famously announced on TV...... "Apparently a lady rang the BBC and said she heard that there was a hurricane on the way. Well, don't worry, if you're watching, there isn't." ....shortly thereafter the greatest storm in recent history hit the UK. The book is entitled 'Teach Yourself Weather'. The irony did not escape me and I was giggling all the while I queued to pay for it. I thought later, as I drove home, you just know that somewhere near the beginning, someone is going to describe weather-forcasting as 'an inexact science'. You just know it's going to be there! |
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Post by Phalon on Jan 6, 2009 8:56:47 GMT -6
Ok - that is just too cool. Lookit all the gadgetry on that thing! Way more exciting than a weather calendar - I'm going to have to check out what similiar kind of thing is available here for Hubs.
When I worked in Cincinnati there was a woman in our office who was married to a weather forecaster for one of the local news shows. We used to tease him relentlessly that if his wife as inaccurate as he was on the job, they'd be a one income household.
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Heard what? 
