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From: Joyce Ragels <>
Subject: Re: [ML] THE SUBJECT IS Winter
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 11:43:02 -0700
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I take mine down to stubs. Each year my hubby would say I was going to kill them, but I never did. I want the biggest flowers I can get. Part of that is the flower you buy, but part of it is in the trimming. I've got a few bushes that even when trimmed back to just a few canes get 6' or over in a season. The way I look at it, a severely trimmed bush wants to grow because it might even think you are trying to kill it. When it has to maintain less growth, that gives more strength for the flowers. Medallion is suppose to be a 5 to 6" rose, but I've had blooms that were a little over 7". When I take pictures and crop them down, it is hard to get the dimension. That is why I've taken pictures of some of them with rulers right beside them so I can prove how large some of them get. Unfortunately they don't all get that large, nor do they all smell that great. There is one called Great Century that is suppose to get up to 8". It is young and hasn't done that for me, but !
trust me when I say there will be a ruler in that shot when it happens. As I replace some of the old ones, I am more particular about size and smell.
Sadly, I need to do some waterline work this year and I am not looking fwd to that one at all.

J

> I have to get my roses trimmed. Mine are still trying to bloom also, but
> even though we don't usually get snow in the valley we still have freezing
> night time temps. So they are looking really bad. I have this one big one
> in the bud stage and looks really bad. I am always afraid when you trim
> back so far they won't come back, but they always do.
> Louise
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> From: "Joyce Ragels" <>
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> Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 5:51 AM
> Subject: Re: [ML] THE SUBJECT IS Winter


>>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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