Thanks for the info about roses, I only have one good sized one and two might be tea roses.
Got a phone call from a number I didn't recognize yesterday, they left a message, it was Costco, a recall for the Korean style pork jerky brand they sell, may have metal bits in it. Supposed to throw it away and not eat it. That was three weeks ago that I had bought it and I'm supposably to not have eaten it yet?
Have you run a magnet over your digestive system to see if it sticks anywhere?
You're welcome. I'm always happy to talk about roses, though I'm far from an expert. Most of the rose advice I find in books and online doesn't take into account the elevation, the arid conditions, the wind, and the lack of dependable snow cover common to this part of the country. In adapting to conditions, I do a lot of things "wrong" and get pretty decent results. New roses at my house go into the ground without a lot of fussy soil amendment and they don't get a lot of carefully constructed protection in the winter. The best defense against the climate is buying roses that thrive where they're planted. I have a couple of dozen roses, and only one died during our terrible winter a few year ago. I sometimes wonder if I gave up on it too soon. Some require ssignificant pruning after a hard winter, but they come back.
One of the most hardy roses in the garden is a fragrant pink semi-wild multiflora that has taken everything thrown at it for forty years, including being roughly uprooted and moved multiple times. I'd be happy to share a couple of plants next season. It's invasive, so you wouldn't want to plant it in your vegetable garden, but it is a wonderful rose.
