Good evening and rose growing question

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Good evening and rose growing question
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Mon, 05-12-2003 - 8:42pm
It was good to read all the pleasant ways that the ladybugs celebrated MD. I think I would have cared least for BB's way. Maybe she is like our governor and is trying out for a part in Nascar. That poor fellow wrecked, and I know he must have been embarassed. He was practicing to drive the pace car to start the race (or whatever they call that car).

DS2 gave me the cutest enameled gold charm, a ladybug about the size of 2 actual ladybugs. I wore it as a pendant today, but I want to find a bracelet so that I can wear it as a single charm. I had seen the ladybug bracelets but not the single charms.

Our system is celebrating for every school did well on the EOG tests. There is double joy for the improved scores mean bonus checks for the teachers and other staff.

Are there any ladybugs who specialize in growing roses? I also received a rose bush, a pure white tea rose for MD. I have another that has survived despite my poor care for several years. Any hints will be appreciated on how to care for them.

Bren

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Mon, 05-12-2003 - 8:57pm
I don't know roses but if the one you have has survived several years with the care you have given it, you must be doing something right. Kathey
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Mon, 05-12-2003 - 9:21pm
What a cute gift from your DD! I would love a single Ladybug charm on a bracelet. Cute! Like you, I have only seen the bracelets with Ladybugs all around.

I hadn't heard that about your governor. Politicians! Gracious.....hope he was just embarrassed and not injured when he wrecked.

Congrats on the test scores -- bonus goooooood!!!..LOL

Sorry, I can't help you with the roses. My Mom's are beautiful, but I have never had a rose bush. Maybe you could go to Google and see what you can find. Good luck -- bet it's a beautiful bloom -- love the white ones...BB

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Mon, 05-12-2003 - 10:30pm
Brenner, I have 5 rose bushes in pots on our patio. They always have spots on their leaves.I have never been able to beat that. I know they like sun and good air circulation Bloom well as long as I fertilize them once or twice. I don't know all that much about them just what I've read and mostly forgotten! My biggest problem is the deer. They love the roses and even come down on the patio to eat them. I remember last year I was just getting ready for what appeared to be some really nice blooms and the next morning when I got up they were all neatly clipped off. I'm torn as I feel sorry for the deer that are being forced out of their homes. I guess I'm not that much help with your rose question. There is a very noisy Jay outside the office window right now. Must be being threatened by crows or a cat or something. I can't tell what. Very annoying though. There is also a Woodpecker that has been in a tree somewhere outside our bedroom window that starts drilling away every morning at around 5am. I can hear it even with my earplugs! I don't know if it has a headache by 7am but I sure do! Have a great evening! KaCee

Poof!!! I'm gone!!

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Tue, 05-13-2003 - 9:13am
Good Morning Brenda...such a neat MD's present. How great that your schools all did well with the EOG testing.

Don't know what our dear govenor was thinking...going through his second childhood ya think?

About roses...we have one bush in our yard that my late DH bought when we moved into this house. One of his buddies at work grew roses and so he thought we should have some too. One is all we ever got. Well he planted it out at the end of the driveway...good sun location...I guess. It has been blooming like mad the past few years but not because I do anything for it. He must be tending it from above as all I do is make sure there is pinestraw around the base for winter and clip off the blooms as they wilt. Sometimes I will bring afew in to enjoy in the house. I haven't fed or even watered it. It is just surviving. Oh and I make sure the wysteria bush that he planted rather near it does not choke it.

HAGD...Pab

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Tue, 05-13-2003 - 8:35pm
Bren- This is just what I do whenever I eat bananas take the skin and place it in dirt under the rose bush.. I bury the skin under each rose bush I have and it seems to do wonders... just something I pick up from Jerry Baker or someone like that... wren
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Wed, 05-14-2003 - 10:18am
Did a bit of a 'look up', Brenda. Found some very interesting sites, but I'll only list a couple for you!!

http://tinyurl.com/bqmy

http://tinyurl.com/bqn8

BTW, I see that Wren's suggestion of using the banana skins is mentioned in a lot of the 'rose' sites!!

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Wed, 05-14-2003 - 1:01pm
Thank you, Katie. Those look like good sites, too. I had never heard of the banana peel business before.
Bren
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Wed, 05-14-2003 - 1:04pm
I am reading backward and Katie said that several web sites gave the same advice. Thanks.
Bren
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Wed, 05-14-2003 - 1:28pm
Roses,

Years and years ago I planted a red tea and a pink florabunda or what ever you call them. I read books and planted them in the right location, fertilized, dusted, mulched and watered.....they died.

About 15 years later we were in the local little departmemt store and it was at the end of the season. They had roses for like a dollar a bush. I bought about 6 different colors. Came home and planted them. The only thing I did to them was to cut them down to the ground every year and I had the most beautiful roses.....then one year we had a bitter, bitter winter and they didn't make it.

I don't know if I put up any pictures of the roses or not if not I could. But that is my rose story....

Janet

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Wed, 05-14-2003 - 1:31pm
Sounds like roses won't be as hard to care for as I thought they might be. Has the govenor done his racing thing yet? My DS1 used to go to several races a year, but that was before he was a DH and a DD. It was alos when he was getting a lot of free passes.
Bren

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