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Love and Peace

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I miss my Love and Peace rose. I lost it this past winter. It just didn’t come back.

It’s always done well through the winter and we had a very mild winter this year so I don’t think that’s why it failed. I think it was diseased.

Last year in the spring I noticed that it had a woody, fungal looking growth just at the soil line. I carefully cut out that growth and removed the soil that had been around it and crossed my fingers. Love and Peace took off like it normally did and I didn’t have any problems at all with it last year.

This year when I saw that it wasn’t starting to come back to life after winter I took at look at it’s base and it seems that a bit of what I’ll call the fungal growth was back but certainly not as bad as the year before. Could this have been the problem that caused it to die?

Does anyone know what kind of disorder, infection or disease I’m talking about? I’d love to learn more about it. You see, once I dig up Love and Peace I want to plant a new rose in the same area. I don’t want the new rose to get sick though if whatever might have killed Love and Peace is still in the soil.

Any ideas?






An antique Souvenir

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Souvenir de la malmaison rose

This is a small but lovely rose called Souvenir de la Mal Maison. It’s an antique rose. It’s also fragrant, not as fragrant as some of my other antiques like Compte De Chambord, but fragrant none the less.

I say this is a small rose because mine has only ever grown to a maximum of 2 feet in height. I believe that I’ve read it would grow larger, perhaps to three feet, but mine has never grown larger than 2 feet. Being a small rose I have it placed near the front of my flower bed so it doesn’t get lost among the plants that often grow tall.

Does anyone else grow Souvenir de las Mal Maison or antique roses? I enjoy growing the antiques for their beauty and fragrance. I also enjoy growing them because they are often hardier then many of the hybrid teas.

I have another rose photo on Tricia’s Musings that is a must see!

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Hibiscus bloom

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Hibiscus

I like to always have a hibiscus around.

Sometimes I’m not all that successful keeping them alive inside my dark house in the winter but I always have one each summer, whether it’s new or one that survived the winter.

I just love hibiscus flowers. They’re so large and beautiful.

Did you know that hibiscus flowers are edible? I don’t eat them but I do occasionally drop a hibiscus flower in with my box turtles and they eat it up. They love eating flowers.

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