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Gardening

Curmudgeoness

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6. You want this one, it's yours.

Reply to beac (Reply #5)

Wed Mar 20, 2013, 07:01 PM

Mar 2013

Just come and try to dig it up and take it....I bet I still have it show back up in a few years, and you will have one too.

The one thing about Japanese Beetles that really is a problem: they eat all the late summer blooms. I ended up with them on lots of my plants as well, but when I got rid of the bush (for a few years), they did not come back. They seemed to be attracted just to the roses. Ick.

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Rose cuttings in potatoes!!! [View all] elleng Mar 2013 OP

Fascinating. I would not have thought of that in a million years! demgrrrll Mar 2013 #1

I have always been intimidated by roses (despite the fact that my grandfather beac Mar 2013 #2

It really depends on the rose you choose. Curmudgeoness Mar 2013 #4

An unkillable rose sounds like the right kind for me. beac Mar 2013 #5

You want this one, it's yours. Curmudgeoness Mar 2013 #6

COOL!!! Little Star Mar 2013 #3

What a great article! BlueToTheBone Mar 2013 #7