| Author | Message | ||
     Jeri Jennings (Jeri) Supreme Crown Gall ! Username: Jeri Post Number: 739 Registered: 01-2006 |
WAY COOL! The blooms are BIG! Jeri | ||
| stephen scanniello (Steprose) Supreme Crown Gall ! Username: steprose Post Number: 922 Registered: 01-2006 |
close up of R. roxburghii hirtula  | ||
| stephen scanniello (Steprose) Supreme Crown Gall ! Username: steprose Post Number: 921 Registered: 01-2006 |
and here he is, sounds just like his book......  | ||
| stephen scanniello (Steprose) Supreme Crown Gall ! Username: steprose Post Number: 920 Registered: 01-2006 |
I'm going to try to make these bigger.....  | ||
| stephen scanniello (Steprose) Supreme Crown Gall ! Username: steprose Post Number: 919 Registered: 01-2006 |
From my garden in Barnegat: two shots of my specimen of R. roxburghii hirtula, in full bloom. This was taken on Memorial Day. In the photo (s) is Dana and our grandson, Wells. A few minutes before these shots were taken Wells was enjoying his favorite book, Buzz Buzz Said the Bee - it ends with the last page bursting into the sound of hundreds of bees buzzing. R. roxburghii hirtula was loaded with bees, and sounded just like his book......note his expression! Anyway, this rose was grown from seed from a seedling of the plant that once grew in the Cranford Rose Garden. The mother plant was imported from Japan. Many years ago, one of my volunteers found a seedling under the mother plant, took it home and grew it on to a magnificent specimen (now in the garden of St. Lukes, in NYC). My plant was a baby of the St Lukes plant. I'm training it, by pruning, into a tree. stephen   |