Boring, boring rosesN
why are so many beguiled by roses?
Is it their wonderful structural shape? Is it their glorious leaf colour? Is it their magnificent spiny form over the long winter months? Is it their ability to sit comfortably with other plants? Is it their inclination to tear your hands, face and clothing as you pass by? Is it their scent? Really? Many have scent; many do not. Is it their demand for fungicides and insecticides?
Out of flower roses are the most ugly things in the garden. They are positively aggressive, treacherous .(never want a friend with its characteristics ) even dangerous......ever fallen into one and tried to sit down afterwards? They have no place in a small or average size garden.
So...let's get a petition going to ban roses .....an anagram is "sores" and how much more apt is that? .....and make our lives sooooooooo much better
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Booooo Verdun. Boooooooo! Your dislike of bamboo I get. Your love of grasses; I agree. I'll forgive the gnome. But with roses, you are so wrong. Down with Verdun!
Each to there own Verdun, I love roses they are part of our English Country Garden scene. I don't have many roses but I enjoy them, there form, there scent.
its green flowered plants I can't stand ,I can't see the point.
Naughty, naughty Verdun, are you bored again?
Its raining so he's bored. Get a brolly out and take spike for a run.
I must say I agree with Verdun. For me roses just don't grow well, they say they are not good in clean air, preferring town gardens. Thats very true for me, or it could be an altitude problem.
After taking that 20ft thing down yesterday, I am ripped to bits, right through clothing and thick gloves, it only blooms once, then you have miles of fungus ridden green for the rest of the year.
They don't even grow them at Rosemoor like they used to, I think because of the fungus problems. More suited to hot dry areas, my cousin in Australia grows beauties.
In spite of that, I still have to stick bits in the ground every year to do cuttings!
Maybe you need a new nose?
Perfumed roses are gorgeous and smelly ones with open centres where insects can get at the pollen even better. I don't spray my roses, just give them what they need so they grow strong.
I find bamboo boring and ugly, think ornamental grasses are over done and many on a par with bamboo for boringness and I too do not see the point of green flowers.
Wel, I am bored, bl***y bored! I have nothing to do, it's poured with rain since I don't know when, I have no compost for potting on, I have no car to go and get some.
I could do housework, but well who wants to do that. Thinking of doing some filing, come April I will wish I had.
It's feed day for the baskets and tubs, no point in that, so roses, mmmm........ Let's take it out on them!