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"David Hare-Scott" <secret@nospam.com> wrote in message 
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> We have had a week of temperatures up to 24C,  it is cooler today with 
> overcast and drizzle but not really cold.
>
> Most of the deciduous plants are budding, I had to hurry and finish 
> pruning the roses before the rain.  Now all I need is a nice frost in the 
> last week of August to knock off the buds.
>
> Tell me why is it that people who like roses want you to grow them but 
> never volunteer to prune them?  I consented to planting six (not a lot I 
> know) a couple of years ago.  According to the vendor information they 
> were nice restrained cultivars that grow to 1.5m.   Lies, all lies!  The 
> bloody things grow 3m high or more and the trimmings from each one fill a 
> small wheelbarrow.  I do so hate getting caught up and impaled by rose 
> thorns.
>
> I still have tangelos, lemons and cumquats on the trees.  The broad beans 
> are flowering well and covered in bees but no fruit set yet.   I am trying 
> a spring planting of peas this year to try to avoid the 
> too-cold-to-flower-and-fruit blues.
>
> I will be sowing my seed trays for all the transplantable summer crops 
> this week.  We went to the local nursery to pick up a couple of packets of 
> seeds that I was missing and found they had no okra.  Bless his little 
> cotton socks the owner dipped into his personal stash of saved seeds and 
> gave me some.  Who said the days of customer service were over.
>
> For those who care there are quite a few new shots of the garden, floods, 
> frosts and animals in our imitation winter.

Thanks for the link David - your garden and surrounds look good.  I think 
you might be right about that early spring.  And we're at the beginning of 
rose pruing ATM - only at least 112 roses to go. 

"FarmI" <ask@itshall be given> wrote in message 
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> "David Hare-Scott" <secret@nospam.com> wrote in message 
> news:j1l235$btn$1@news.albasani.net...
>> We have had a week of temperatures up to 24C,  it is cooler today with 
>> overcast and drizzle but not really cold.
>>
>> Most of the deciduous plants are budding, I had to hurry and finish 
>> pruning the roses before the rain.  Now all I need is a nice frost in the 
>> last week of August to knock off the buds.
>>
>> Tell me why is it that people who like roses want you to grow them but 
>> never volunteer to prune them?  I consented to planting six (not a lot I 
>> know) a couple of years ago.  According to the vendor information they 
>> were nice restrained cultivars that grow to 1.5m.   Lies, all lies!  The 
>> bloody things grow 3m high or more and the trimmings from each one fill a 
>> small wheelbarrow.  I do so hate getting caught up and impaled by rose 
>> thorns.
>>
>> I still have tangelos, lemons and cumquats on the trees.  The broad beans 
>> are flowering well and covered in bees but no fruit set yet.   I am 
>> trying a spring planting of peas this year to try to avoid the 
>> too-cold-to-flower-and-fruit blues.
>>
>> I will be sowing my seed trays for all the transplantable summer crops 
>> this week.  We went to the local nursery to pick up a couple of packets 
>> of seeds that I was missing and found they had no okra.  Bless his little 
>> cotton socks the owner dipped into his personal stash of saved seeds and 
>> gave me some.  Who said the days of customer service were over.
>>
>> For those who care there are quite a few new shots of the garden, floods, 
>> frosts and animals in our imitation winter.
>
> Thanks for the link David - your garden and surrounds look good.  I think 
> you might be right about that early spring.  And we're at the beginning of 
> rose pruing ATM - only at least 112 roses to go.

Now I know why I don't grow roses.