Just before Christmas, Megan came into my office with a cheerful glow on her face and a red and white striped miniature rose in her hand. Megan said, "Merry Christmas!" as she offered me this r...
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Angie and I made a bittersweet trip to Shreveport recently. Her father's house is about to be sold and we needed to finish removing many of the personal items. It was good to see Angie's ...
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Martin Luther King Jr. weekend gave me the perfect weather and amount of time to return to rose gardening. It is hard to believe, but it was a year and a half ago when Angie and I moved to Chic...
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With the move to the new church, Epworth United Methodist Church , and new home a couple of months under the belt, this past week and a half has given me the first real time to do much wor...
While I am as much a fan of new roses as the next person, I love to see big, mature, old rose bushes. Mature roses offer so much that their younger siblings can not. A young bush can not ove...
When I first started ordering roses, I would order them as bare-root plants that came in the early spring as plants that were cut back to about nine inches tall and a healthy root system on the o...
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In my last post I shared that in June we will be moving to serve a new church and community. In the United Methodist Church, pastors (or parsons) live in parsonages provided by the church. So...
Having served as a United Methodist Minister for the past 22 years, I am more than aware of one reality that Methodist are often known for; our pastors move. United Methodists follow an "apos...
Over the years, I've come to appreciate so much more about the rose than just the beauty of its flowers. In these days of late fall the rose hips add some nice color to the last few roses th...
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It has been so hot this summer that I haven't had many roses in bloom recently. With that being the case I thought I might share something totally different about myself. Below is a commercia...
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For years I have grown a wide variety of modern roses. While this is true, I have never grown any of Dr. Griffith Buck's roses. Knowing that ProfessorRoush has had good success with them and...
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Occasionally, when ordering roses, you will be sent something you didn't order. Sometimes a rose is mislabeled but that is not what happened to me. This spring when my order from Rogue Valley...
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There were several roses I took cuttings from last Fall and put them in my cutting bed. Having a growing success at getting cuttings to start, I took four small cuttings from Red Cascade hoping...
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Despite the intense heat of the past week, the roses in the Prague Rose Garden have been growing quite nicely. The seated arch has been the focal point of the garden but there were no roses gro...
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Every week someone will tell me, "I just can't grow roses", or they will ask me, "Why can't I grow roses, Rev?" Almost always the answer comes down to one or more of the following ...
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This is the last post on our tour of the roses and they follow the fence line along the north end of the property. The planting is not at all creative but together these roses make a very ni...
I think miniature roses serve as a warm welcome to any home. I might think this because my mother had and still has a nice row of miniature roses that greet you as you come in the front door....
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Last week I took a few steps back to show you the development of our rose garden. From that southeast corner of the house in the backyard we're going to work our way around to the front this w...
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I have grown roses for over twenty years but for most of those years, I have simply grown roses. I would acquire one here and one there and plant them in the next available spot. When we move...
Over Spring Break, Angie and I visited her father in Shreveport, Louisiana. Not as exotic as Anna's trip to Budapest and Prague (Czech Republic not Oklahoma) or as fun filled (I don't want to k...
http://reddirtroses.blogspot.com/2012/03/visiting-american-rose-society-and.html
Back in January I separated two suckers from their mother plants and recently dug them up to move to the park. The first one is Precious Dream, a Hybrid Bracteata from Ralph Moore. It has be...
It is no surprise that one of the reasons we love particular roses, is because of the sentimental attachments they hold. It may be for such attachments that I keep growing Gertrude Jekyll. ...
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In recent years I have begun growing a number of roses created by the rose hybridizer, Paul Barden . Paul studied horticulture in college and further studies in photography. I think one gi...
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Let the fig tree teach you a lesson. As soon as its branches become green and tender and it starts putting out leaves, you know that summer is near. - Matthew 24:32 The mild winter has l...
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Tradescant, English Rose This time of year, my inner gardener gets a bit antsy. I want to get out and work in the garden but it's often cold and it gets dark so early. So I've been worki...
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