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From: "marilyn E B" <>
Subject: Re: [ML] THE SUBJECT IS Winter
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 09:38:11 -0500
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Joyce,
Have you ever used the grounds from brewed coffee and egg shells on your
roses? I found that hint in Mother Earth about 30 years ago. I use if when I
can get coffee grounds and it works. My rose bushes always bloom forever and
ever. They will still be blooming when a good freeze comes along.

Marilyn

On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 8:51 AM, Joyce Ragels <> wrote:

> A poem I wrote actually covers my opinion of winter pretty good.
>
> You can check it out at my web site in my poem section. It is 3.
>
> While there, check out my drop dead gorgeous roses, some of which have
> never stopped blooming and still are. It always kills me to have to prune a
> rose that is blooming, but I do that each year before I add their Epsom
> Salt. I try to get that done sometime in Jan or surely by the first of Feb.
> I know some of you guys are still buried in snow banks then, which is
> another reason I like Tucson. :) In Tucson, the best season for my roses is
> April. If we have a gentle spring even May is good. I remember one year
> when I was dead heading them and spreading the petals on the ground, I had
> as much color on the ground as I had on the bushes. Sadly, I did not take a
> picture of that.
>
> http://www.jragels.com/
>
> J
>
> The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new
> eyes.
> - Marcel Proust
>
>
> > The subject is
>
> > Winter
>
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>
> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mbousman1/memory.htm
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There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of
these is roots, the other, wings.

-Hodding Carter

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