Comments on: Roses and Rain

By: karen

karen — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:39:45 +0000

Thank you for that good news. I’m delighted. I too have lesser roses that have bitten the dust. Our climate is pretty unforgiving.

By: mss @ Zanthan Gardens

mss @ Zanthan Gardens — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 17:28:38 +0000

Souvenir de la Malmaison is my favorite rose, despite her tendency to ball when the weather’s wet. I can forgive her anything because she is just so beautiful. She’s proven quite tough in my Austin garden, too–thriving when lesser roses have bitten the dust.

By: karen

karen — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:42:55 +0000

Oh, Jim, the bird songs are lovely. Thank you!

Yes, I lived in Ithaca for 17 years and have loads of friends and relatives there. In fact we just spent a hard-partying Christmas there.

By: Jim/ArtofGardening

Jim/ArtofGardening — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 02:06:59 +0000

Just for you Karen. Visit http://web.mac.com/charlierj/ArtOfGardening/About.html

You lived in Ithaca? I’m originally from Binghamton and have family from Ithaca to Binghamton.

By: karen

karen — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 13:04:47 +0000

Love the idea of bird songs! Frog songs are also big in our garden for about 5 months of the year. The breeding season seems more spread out than it was when I lived in upstate NY (Ithaca). There, you’d get an intense breeding season in the spring–with the various species breeding at various times right after each other. Here, I think there are more opportunistic breeders. If we get a storm in September, you’ll find tadpoles in a roadside puddle.

By: Jim/ArtofGardening

Jim/ArtofGardening — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 17:42:03 +0000

Thanks for including my photography in the same sentence as Digging and Gardening Gone Wild.

Sorry you don’t like the music. The web, being an audio medium, I wanted to add some sound (I hate clicking sounds and mouse-over noises, their novelty wears off quickly). But Music is subjective, I may just take it out because it might be slowing the loading of the site.

Hey, maybe I’ll add the sounds of birds & crickets for that outdoor feeling! Who can object to that?

By: karen

karen — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 21:44:49 +0000

Whoops, Barbara, you’re right. I can’t spell ‘Zephirine Drouhin.’ It doesn’t seem right without the e. Off to correct it. What other roses are you going to plant this spring?

Thank you, Jim. I am so happy to learn that you too forget where you have planted things. I find it plumb embarrassing, but I figure a gardening blog is no use unless you confess to the warts and all.

Christy, thank you so much. But there are lots of garden bloggers who are infinitely better photographers than I am. Check out Digging and Gardening Gone Wild. And Jim, at ArtofGardening, is no mean photographer, for all his protestations. (Although I confess I could live without the sound on your site, Jim. It’s probably absolutely appropriate garden music and that is merely my tone-deaf ear speaking.)

By: christy

christy — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 18:41:41 +0000

Oh my goodness. Your blog is lovely. And, I love this rain guage. In fact, we gave my Dad one for Christmas a few years ago!

By: jim

jim — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:22:17 +0000

I thin it’s funny that you forgot where you planted one of your roses. I can relate! I plant things just knowing I’ll remember what & where in the spring but am always surprised each year!

By: Barbara

Barbara — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:45:27 +0000

I’m sure you’ll enjoy your new roses. I also have Zephirine Drouhin, Souvenir de la Malmaison (it is a bit delicate here) and Blush Noisette and I like all of them very much. Here the soil is still to hard (due to frost and ice) for planting new roses. But there are also some new ones on my list for this Spring.