On 06/18/2015 11:31 AM, D. Michael McIntyre wrote: > On 06/18/2015 02:50 PM, Abrolag wrote: > >>> finally get to take a train ride, pulled behind a freshly restored steam >>> locomotive. >> >> Ha! Something that still, to this day, crosses all age boundaries :) > > I've been waiting for this for my entire adult life, and I'm very > excited. Just under three weeks...
Then come out to Hawaii, visit the Hawaii State Railway Museum, take a ride! >> Why is it ailing? Roses are normally pretty tough. Do you know any >> horticulture >> bods that might have a look at it? It would be a great shame to lose it. > > It's a combination of surrounding growth and two extremely brutal > winters in a row. Back when I planned all this, it was safe to bet on > the high side of average winter temperatures, and that row of shrubs > providing my privacy was only about 5' tall. Now the shrubs are 10' > tall, and it's hard to maintain a balance between privacy and light > penetration. The rose barely gets enough light, and when the brutal low > temperatures hit, it didn't fare well. Bummer. Yours has lived a long time. Every rose we've tried here as died in a year or less. I have pictures of roses, but none with a locomotive. -- David W. Jones [email protected] authenticity, honesty, community http://dancingtreefrog.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-user mailing list [email protected] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-user
