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[Linda in PA]

I love to garden and I may have identified your tall mystery plant from Hershey. I get emails from Proven Winners and today's links back to the author's garden.

http://www.provenwinners.com/garden/articles.cfm?path=information_center&contentID=123&cid=5&cat=Miscellaneous%20Topics

I went to look at her Limelight Hydrangea (ours is right up there is size of blooms). Several of your blog readers said it looked like papyrus. Well she has photos of Cyperus Papyrus - Graceful Grasses King Tut. If you get a chance, see what you think.

[Pat]

Linda that certain looks just like the tall plant at Hershey!! Several people also said it usually grows in the south... and it SPREADS like crazy! But up north here i bet they dig it up and move it each year!

[Tamara]

Rose gardens are not for sissys!      This is the lesson I learned this past spring after creating a large raised rose bed and planting 16 bushes.   
 

I am a fairly new rose gardener, and have discovered that as soon as I figure out what to do about one kind of voracious little bugger, fungus, mold or disease...another will pop up.  It has been quite a challenge, and a tremendous learning experience, but I'm reminded that it has been more than worthwhile with each new blossom.  I love being able to place fresh cut roses in bud vases around our home.

[Pat]

Tamara did you plant fancy roses? I have 'bush roses'.. which are super easy .. but I forgot to trim them back and need to do that!

here is a rose from my neighbors garden.. isn't it awesome? I can't grow this kind..so I just go next door!!

[Linda in PA]

We have the bush ones also - Knockout, two pink and one yellow. They are a beautiful backdrop to lower cluster of plants, but just aren't the same as the old fashioned type. I cut a few for containers, but they don't last very long. They're either pretty little buds or flat out petals, nothing in between. But the bees love them! <VBG>

[Pat]

Gardening topic is NOW OPEN!

[bbmolony]

We just cleaned up all the trash from the winter - have 7 bags of "yard waste" and it's been sitting out in front.  Found out the city will not pick up yard waste until April 1!  That means we've got to look at those bags of trash for another week?  Oy vey!

[Sharon]

I don't cook (much), do windows (often) or garden at all. Prob. Solved.

[Pat]

Bobbie at least it is DONE.. unlike mine that still Needs done... LOL!

I do like a pretty garden.. just need to figure out how to keep these stinking weeds down to a dull roar...

[lovetostitch]

If I don't "love" to garden does that mean I shouldn't post here?  Actually it's sweating I'm opposed to - LOL!!!! getting yukky, and buggy..........  We don't really have that much  to contend with - I'll stick to pretty trees, a few green plants and annuals........... only a couple small spots for me to pretty up. 

[lovetostitch]

I have considered "Knock-out" roses, which bloom constantly!!

[JacqueK]

Linda, I have knock-out roses and they'll grow 8-10 feet in a season if I don't attack them about once a month. I LOVEthe old fashioned rose smell they have.

I LOVE a beautiful yard.  I LOVE when someone else does the work.

YOu're right, Sharon, however it's fabric or yardman.  Can't have both.  LOVE fabric more

[Irishapples]

At the moment all I have is snow and ice. 

I have some kind of rose bushes outside our house, one on either side of the door. Tom trims them and the moose usually trim them a little more in the winter.  I just enjoy them.
RE have raspberry bushes that grow wild all over the back yard adn attract bees, We usually do boxes of annuals and the toilet with annuals.  It is an old toilet that Tom put out front and filled with dirt. I need to find a bathtub to go with it.

[Pat]

i think my rose bushes are that variety and if they get lots of light they get big!  the 2 with less light are not getting so big

[Cindy in TN]

I have a yardman to mow and edge, but he doesn't do the beds.  I have ground cover in all of them to help with the weeds.

My rule of thumb is to do a drive-by.  If the yard looks good, then I'm fine.  When I can see the weeds from the street, then I pull them.  (I'm not quite that bad, but almost.)

I've got a big patch between azaleas now.  The weeds are blooming.  I told Dennis I wasn't pulling them until they quit blooming because they were pretty!  He rolled his eyes, but I don't see him pulling them up, either!