For Older People with Sense
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Alyson, I love the pictures of your house! It's welcoming, warm, and elegant.
Leah
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saw this on my way to the grocery store
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Gorgeous rose! Did it have a perfume Lisa? As much as the newer breeds of roses are lovely, I still prefer the older perfumed varieties.........nothing like walking into a room and smelling the roses that are on the table without getting close.
Well the Autumn rain has arrived early this year and hasn't stopped for the last three days. This doesn't usually happen until Easter or if they are late, Anzac Day which is the 25th April........lol, yes, we can be that precise. Even though the temperature has really fallen by then the rain is the thing that makes it plummet. My new fire installation has been delayed because of the rain as the fellow can't get on top of the roof but hopefully next week is supposed to be fine........well here's hoping as I'm sure I will be needing it very soon.
Take care all!
Love n hugs. Chrissy
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We had a pale lavender rose named Lagerfeld (after the designer, I'm sure) that smelled so good that little boys would stop to sniff. Sadly, I think we've lost it, but I would certainly buy another if I can find one.
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I will have to look for that when I go to the rose garden in Balboa park, they have them all labelled
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chrissy, what's a fire installation?
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Barbe I'm having a small combustion fire installed into my dining room/kitchen...........it is similar to a pot belly stove but not as pretty.......lol. It's been raining non stop for days and the fellow doing the installation can't get onto the roof to install the flue until the roof is dry and at this stage of the proceedings, it looks like it will be Monday or Tuesday before the weather clears enough to make that exercise safe.
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not sure if this is the lavendar rose but I saw this in the morning and thought of you Wren
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Lisa, that rose is pure magic! Gorgeous!
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Thanks
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Lisa, that could be it. If you goggle lagerfeld rose, Jackson & Perkins will come up with a photo. I wish I could figure out how to do photos. It worked before the upgrade and never since.
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Wren these are two of the pics listed for the Lagerfeld Rose.......they are gorgeous roses!
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I thought it looked like Blue Moon but some are very similar.
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Chrissy, Mine looked more like the one at the top. More blue than pink. Now I'm thinking I'll have to replace it with a new one. There were roses lining the driveway when we moved in to our house. We have gradually replaced them with ones we like more. We have Mr. Lincoln for the great smell. We also have an Impressionist which turns multiple colors as it matures. It's from Heritage Roses in Oregon.
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Wren at the house where I used to live I had a huge rose garden and I made a point of collecting old roses that everyone else was digging up........some of the boles were over fifty years old and huge! Most of the names had been lost in time but oh the perfumes that came from that garden on a warm night were just heavenly.
There were also a lot of roses at this house as well but they were the showy no perfume kind. I have gotten rid of a lot and the ones I now have all are perfumed........not that I have that many.....lol......my garden is more the self care kind filled with lavender, geranium, iris, daffodil, jonquil, ranucula, rosemary, succulents and a few small trees, fruit trees and shrubs. I have very little that needs weeding as I let it all overgrow with just the occasional trim back so weeds don't really want to grow as they get no sun. My lawn is only green three seasons of the year and in summer is a nice shade of brown as are a lot of lawns in Australia unless you want a huge water bill trying to keep it green. It only takes a day of rain and a fay or two of sun to turn it green after the summer.
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hi ladies, lovely roses! I have never had much luck with growing roses. I have one bush, and it grows straight up and only gets a few blooms a year. I hardly have paid it much attention but last year I cut it way back so I'll see what happens this year.
We finally are getting warmer weather. It got up to 60 today and it was wonderfully sunny. I went and met with my designer and the carpenter at the house this afternoon. I took some pictures from the roof deck. You would be able to see the water if the railing wasn't right in the way. The house in the front left is my brothers and the one in the front is mine. I think I will have enough energy to move there this summer.
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Chrissy, Sounds a lot like our yard. We plant stuff and let them duke it out with what's already there. There is usually something going on from spring thru fall. People here don't water their lawns in summer either - and for the same reason. We watered the lawn our first summer and dozens of people stopped to tell us how sorry we would be when we got the bill. Besides, brown grass doesn't need mowing.
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I only have a couple of rose bushes, and don't know very much about roses. Last summer I had two different shades of pink on the same bush. In all the years I have had this, it had never happened before, and has not happened since. 0 -
Awe Nancy, I can't see your pics! Can you repost them please?
Wren manicured gardens are nice but I think I prefer the not so manicured look.......lol......less work too.
Deb that is a great rose! Love the fact that you got two different pinks on the same bush!
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thanks for telling me that you couldn't see the pictures, chrissy. They show up on my computer. Way to fake me out!
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Nancy thanks for that, I can see them now. What a lovely outlook you have from the roof deck and even though the railing is there I can still see the water. When all those trees are in leaf it will have such a cooling effect, I just love it!
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thanks Chrissy. It is so exciting! It really is turning out even better than I expected. The breeze will be amazing up there in the summer. My DD will be starting to pack up and move home in a couple of weeks. She will be very happy to see how it's coming along. She wants to be involved with the final decisions. Then we fly back to CO for her surgery. Then we come back home for her recuperation. I am glad she will have something to plan and think about.
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Nancy, recuperation is always speeded up when our minds are otherwise occupied and not dwelling. I know you will love having her close.
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I was just looking at this picture I took of Lake Louise..it is a spectacular place.
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wow!
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That is one of the things I had on my bucket list
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Lisa, What did you take it from? An arial tram? Another mountain? A small plane?
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A ski lift on the opposite mountain...in June..
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