Madame Hardy

I would have done heaps more but the loading thing on Photobucket wouldn't take me to the next step. Also I should have gone to bed at least 5 hours ago.
So I will have to add on tomorrow. These were taken at my friend Lynette's garden. Next time I will show a few more of her garden and then mine. I wanted to redo these ones properly. I should of followed your first instructions, but I forgot about it eventhough I wrote it down too. I kept going the other way you said instead. Anyway its easy now. Thanks !

Sold to Lynette as Mme Berard, but Lynette thinks it is E. Heyrat Hermanos. Which I read on HMF is correct.

JIM

Madame Viennot is very beautiful too. I am very much looking forward to alllll your roses. What fun to have a fellow gardener buddy to share roses with! My BF always jokes about getting the salt shaker for mine, hee-hee!

Jim and Harold, everyone, this is the time difference that I grabbed from Google.

"If you live in United States and you want to call a friend in Australia, you can try calling them between 4:15 PM and 8:15 AM your time. This will be between 7AM - 11PM their time, since Australia is 14.75 hours ahead of United States.
If you're available any time, but you want to reach someone in Australia at work, you may want to try between 6:15 PM and 2:15 AM your time. This is the best time to reach them from 9AM - 5PM during normal working hours."

Hahaha, looks like the 2:15 a.m. would work for me since I'm the late night owl, hehehehehe! speaking of which, whooops, my post is at the wroooong time currently since it's 2:38 p.m. lol! ah, well. Have a nice sleep Karen!

JIM

Well as you can see, I am proud of my adopted rose that was grown from a cutting by the man I bought my place off, taken from a old Wattle and Dabe house that was just up on the hill from here, before it was bulldozed down about 15 years ago I was told. It blooms like this for about 3 to 4 weeks. I have collected some seeds from it and after having them in the bottom of the fridge for about two months I have taken them out and hope they will start germinating soon. I also used its pollen to hand pollinate some of my roses in my garden. So I hope their seeds germinate too. The first time I have done this, thanks to people helping me through forums. As you have helped me to achieve this thread. Thankyou all very much !

rosemeadow, those rose bushes of yours are huge...Wow!
Sounds like you will be quite busy planting all those roses you have to plant yet. Best wishes on doing that task!

I didn't know serenasyh boyfriend uses salt instead of fertilizer on her roses...LOL...Just teasin! LOL

Be waiting for your rose pics on Wednesday!

JIM

The roses here, except for the Weepers, are all roses I grew from cuttings.

The roses along the side of the house I also grew all of them from cuttings, except for the weepers. We no have a window on that wall so we can look out on the garden in that direction now.

I wanted to show more but that will have to do for tonight. See ya !

Very nice pics of your garden and house!

JIM

Fortune's Double yellow is magnificent! and a real treat and oh what a beautiful little girlie you've got photographed there. For some reason, hardly anyone visits here who grows tea roses, so this is a super treat. Everyone will love and think your roses are very special because of this, in addition to their beauty! I hardly get to see any what I term Romantic Roses, the tea roses.

Those weepers are also magnificent! I can't wait until you start posting the descriptors for those. I bet they'll be roses that we rarely see in the U.S. But I guess I'll have to hold my breath and wait. So you too are growing Don Juan like Harold? Harold got tons of compliments when he first posted his. My baby climbers have such tiny buds on them right now. Hope they don't stay that way, LOL! I've got Pennylane and America, but Pennylane is particularly miniscule, lol! the plant looks big and huge for a "baby" own root beginner rose, but the buds so itsy-bitsy!

The color arrangement of the weepers are gorgeous and so are the companion plants that you've got going. Fabulous just fabulous!

P.S. Harold was joking about being "green". I'm not sure how much of Australian and American jokes/slang is shared. He was contrasting your extra green thumb (gardening genius) with him being ultra "green" (which means a "novice") Harold, that was funny! but at least you don't have the perfect moniker that I have, which is "lopsided gardener". People enjoy Harold's roses for the right reasons, whereas my roses are comedic relief. Jim I have to show you my latest lopsidedness. One of my Lincolns is acting very berserk! it is so embarrassing at the joke it's playing on me right now! Just like Fragrant Cloud did when a heavy rainstorm hit....

Thanks for the lovely pictures.

Carol

JeffAurora's Gemini is absolutely amazing. He posted his about one month ago.

Well, hope this time you'll have better luck with sorting out your photos. There's actually 2 ways of doing it. I put the alternate way in your other thread called "Photos from Rosemeadow in Australia". You see sometimes when you are in the middle of deleting and adding posts to your Photobucket, the HTML code changes. That is why you get the wrong photos. The second way is actually a little bit easier because it allows you to get the most current and correct HTML code and there's no extra window blocking your view from the rest of the photos. I drew out a diagram for you. You can always give it a try and see if this works out better for you.

Pierre de Ronsard in a latter flush, which it does very regular. The weeper Renae is to the left in the photo.

I have just found another way to load photos, it might be the way you said Serena. I have the photo enlarged and to the left of it is the Html code and the share word. Also I can then just go through the photos enlarged there to see if they are good enough to post.

Showing my garden last growing season. Hiedisommer is the weeper that you can see a little bit of it. All the bushes to the right further away from the house are my Heritage roses. I have made anothe garden room to the back of that now.

Climber Mme Drouit is in the front here.

Weeper Renae

As you can see my roses etc. needed weeding here, the main thing is the roses are growing and they can always be weeded latter.

Three bushes of Pinkie that I grew from cuttings.

The photo above and the photos from now I took one day but didn't write the name of each as I went, but I still think they would give you a look at what my young garden started producing last Spring/early Summer.

Madame Hardy, grows really easy from cuttings, which is what this one was.

Gloire de Guilian.

My partner got some cuttings for me from a place he worked at, this is the one that survived. I can see it from my kitchen window while I wash up and it lasts for ages.

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I dunked these in the bird bath one day and thought it deserved a photo. Though the lawn behind is unmown.

A few more I found of Fortune's Double Yellow

I love Photo Bucket now, that was so much quicker and enjoyable. Next instalment will be of how my garden has changed during Winter.

JIM

Here he is smiling with my Eluane on her birthday. The shot is from a children's little red playhouse at a park.

By the way, the way you found has the exact same concept what I wrote about and is useful when you need to see the photo up close to make sure that's the photo you want. However! it brings you to another screen and you still have to backtrack like one has to backtrack with Jim's way. You see if you are in your photobucket album screen that has dozens and dozens of photos in it and you know exactly! which thumbnail photos you want, all you have to do is mouse over that thumbnail and that same type of box with the HTML code will appear. If you look at the screen capture I made for you it should look exactly as is shown. This shortcut makes it easier to select your photos very quickly because thumbnails allow you to see entire album pages instead of having to go back to each individual photo and returning alllll the way back to the album to select the next photo. It's instant selection. But yes, if you need to see the entire photo up close, your way is perfect! that's actually the 3rd way of getting images onto your post. Hurrray, you're really starting to get the hang of it.

2. copy the code in your HTML code and paste into your message.

3. go to the next photo you want. Mouse over that photo. Select the HTML code on that yellow box, copy and paste that into your next photo.

This saves you from having to go from screen to screen and allows you to select your photos faster.

Here is a screen shot of the yellow box. Notice how the other photos don't have this box showing up. The reason why is because the mouse is only hovering above that specific image.

The black pots are where I have planted my own ownroot roses, to give them a bit of protection from frosts, wind, Kangaroos or human feet. In at least one the photos you can see my green shade house near the road, which is where I grow my cuttings. I use to have young cut roses growing in the hot house at the end of my garden, they grew fanstastic in there but when I put too many in there they got mildrew and covered in alwful sticky black stuff from insects. I wasn't spraying them, the organic stuff didn't work so I pulled them all out and planted them outside before last Spring. They should look better this year.
On the right side of the garden is where the Heritage roses are, also some David Austins infront. On the left hand side of my garden are the modern roses plus a row of Old Fashioned Climbers and two rows of Noisettes. Well there will be once the roses are all planted ! The steep creek bank is just across from the hot house.

So where are your dogs and sheep? It's hilarious that you have to worry about bouncing Kangaroos. My most hated nemesis is the bouncing Monster Rabbit. Boy do I hate those furry greedy fat little creatures. They breed like crazy and they eat baby roses until nothing is left! Grrrrrrr!

So you don't get snow? I notice you say Winter and yet you are still planting so many roses. Wowwwwww!

By the way do you grow Penny Lane by any chance? or know anything about this climbing rose? I originally freaked out when I saw my young Penny Lane's first blooms because they were so tiny. The plant itself is very large for being so young (I feel a little bit better because the final bloom is not as miniscule as when they first start opening up...

Here is my Penny Lane:

Here is what Penny Lane was supposed to be like (according to vendor photos)

I am wondering how long it will take my Penny Lane to reach it's mature size....It's a 1 year and 8 months perhaps, my guess is. It is an own-root, not grafted, rose. I figure that perhaps you may have seen it? I know Penny Lane originates in England.

I've heard alot of rose growers comment on they never expect to much out of there roses the first couple of years.
Got to be patient and let them mature...LOL
That's the way it is.

When I'm done, I will have roses that bloom a large part of the season. If they don't by the 4th year, they are getting shovel pruned and replaced...LOL

JIM

JIM

close up of Fantin Latour

Well it's wonderful that we have sister! roses--Penny Lane! whoo-hoo! I love Lynette's huge rose bush! It was fun learning how you and she met. James and I used to work at the same architectural firm for a few years (I was a 3D animator there; James did video/multimedia and marketing). Within a month after I left the company, James asked me out and we've been together ever since. How is your s.o. doing with his health? Jim's wife Sue has to undergo treatment this Friday. I am keeping you both in my prayers.

Anyway, I am thrilled to have an Australian friend with gorgeous roses! I am just so amazed at the wonderful things you have and are continually developing with the new roses. Have fun gardening and many hugs to your children. I've seen your youngest and am looking forward to photos of your other daughter. Is she old enough to start learning how to do trialing?

Videos--do you have it in .wmv format? That is the format that can be viewed on the web. Or is the video still "stuck" inside your video camera. Let me know and I'll try to help. If the video is still stuck inside your camcorder, the steps can get quite complicated to get from your camcorder into your computer. It requires getting the right connector and opening up a video editing program to get your video file converted to a .wmv.

There are photo places that can help you convert your videos as well I believe. Just be sure to ask for both .wmv files besides regular DVD files. The two are completely separate from each other: DVD files play on DVD players and computers but only .wmv files can be played on the web.

Once you have the .wmv you need to upload it to Vimeo. This is an even better! site than Photobucket. Photobucket has so much annoying advertisements. Vimeo bans advertisements and keeps their site clean. Vimeo is our number one site for dog agility videos because you can place exceptionally high quality video there without paying extra. UTube you get these nasty, blurry pixelated videos if you try to do it for free, plus I'm just not a fan of UTube. Lots of weird videos there whereas Vimeo is more for artists or people who have a real passion for their hobbies and want to get the highest quality video possible.

That rose that grew from a cutting from your partner's work looks like it might be Passionate Kisses. I just got one, and I really love the really vivid neon color.

- Becky

JIm

Actually when you are ready to send your new photos just start a new thread and we can help you with your photos.

Rosemeadow I suspect that you are worrying too much about your photos. I bet they will work! Photobucket usually has an automatic resizing feature anyway. Do you mind sending me the link so that I can take a closer look? Or you can email me 2 test photos and I will test them out on my Photobucket account for you.

O.K. about video and website! it is a very laborious process that takes a minimum! of a couple of hours of work just for one video. Usually web design for a professional take a month to design and getting video into your own website requires several software programs that cost uhhhh, three thousand dollars (requires Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere and either Adobe Illustrator or Fireworks). So it's something that you have to hire someone to do. On the other hand you can just have a hyperlink to a video like Vimeo. The only bad part is that Vimeo has a rule that you cannot use videos for commercial purposes, it is strictly for sharing purposes-that is how they keep spammers and annoying commercials out. They want their services to be free and clear of those complications; . Maybe what you can do is if people are interested in your pups you can email them the hyperlink instead.

Here is a link to Vimeo.

about Vimeo

Videotapes you definitely have to send to a store to get it translated into a compatible format. They involve a completely! different process than Camcorder videos. Camcorder videos are much easier to get into your computer compared to VHS. VHS you need to buy actual computer components/computer parts to translate VHS.

If you have more questions on the process, you can email me and I'll try to help explain more about what is involved.

So when is the day that you will find the results of the Biopsy? I hope your daughter's arm is feeling much better too. Ouch! poor girl. I am sorry to hear that the cast didn't do the right thing uggggggh!

JIM

If you click on my name you should be able to see that email option. Everything is there, my email and my clippings.

I have 2 emails:

SerenaSYH@sbcglobal.net

animate@galileomediaservices.com

Then, I saw your spectacular pics of Fortune's Double Yellow. Wonderful! Such a beautiful, gentle spot where you live. The first photos I've ever seen, of the plant in its entirety. Our Decorator in Mississippi grew that rose at his office: in a tiny pocket of soil, maybe three by six feet. Two sides were bordered by retaining wall, one by the corner of the building, and one by the AC Compressor Pad. So, you had this windswept corner...hot winds coming off black Asphalt parking lots... hot air coming from the AC Compressor Fans...in Mississippi, which is nearly as hot a place as is Australia. The 'soil' in that spot was a mixture of red clay and construction derbris (mortar, sand, rebar, cinderblock, styrofoam, plastic stucco slop, wood scraps...). A more miserable and dessicating spot I cannot imagine. But that Rose was SPECTACULAR. It looked like a Chinese painting on Silk.

I will note that he cut branches of that Rose for a couple of events. The blossoms continued to open, in the way that forced fruit tree branches continue to blossom. And the Apple Green foliage was so lovely.

So interesting to see Fortune's Double Yellow grown in a less stressing spot.

As soon as I got your email I let Jim know you had written on your thread! I was going to write, but the scary truth is that I woke up at 4:33 p.m. (am battling this terrible chest cough, sore throat and meds have been knocking me out) and then saw your email. Then I had to do rush emergency planting right before the thunderstorm hit (just received roses from Palatine yesterday) and I needed to get everything into the ground before the storm. Well all that labor caused me to get sick again around 8:50 p.m. which is why I didn't write back yet... But I'm real happy that Jim has helped write for me, lol!

Karen, I just don't see how you can do all this hard work! I had to throw up my hands and give up many a time....My soil in unbroken new ground is as hard as a rock and basically needs a jackhammer it seems...I just can't get my shovel into that rock hard clay. It's been soooo frustrating...And Australia just seems very desertlike, and it would take great strength to dig into that soil I'm thinking.....

I am so glad Ray had real good foresight on providing for you and the girls when he knew he had cancer; and that you could purchase the Tasmania property. With this place that you can take time to develop while you maintain your current home. Be sure to update us on your progress. Smiles and hugs, Serena

How is your Kelpie breeding going Karen?

Will talk to you soon! I have to rush and explain some of my garden experiments to the Peter Beales forum before I sound like the Alice In Wonderland Mad Hatter, haha! Hugs and be sure to post your rose photos at our Gallery!

When I have time I'll dig up some of my dance videos with Eluane and also her agility photos. But you can also see her in my 2012 Lumpy Lopsided thread.

Pretty Eluane photos with Cornelia going gangbusters

Today, much to my shock James wants me to put her on a diet...I love calling her the chubby puppy, but I didn't realize she put on that much weight!!! :O! Even my dad who normally spoils her to death says she's a bit too chubby????? I was sick for 3 months so she didn't get as much exercise as she used to. Do you think she's too chubby?? The dancing videos were way back in early January. I'll find them later when I have time....I have to finish up some freelance deadlines!

And no you are not!!! being hypocritical. Safety for one's family and oneself is the most important. Hurray on your march, Karen. Saving Nature and the environment is very important, and I applaud you.