Comments on: Friday Flower – Rosa Rugosa aka The Original Rose http://michaelandjudystouffer.com/judy/blog/2009/01/30/friday-flower-rosa-rugosa-aka-the-original-rose/ Observations from the wrong side of the toast Sat, 31 Dec 2011 23:44:42 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: JAS http://michaelandjudystouffer.com/judy/blog/2009/01/30/friday-flower-rosa-rugosa-aka-the-original-rose/comment-page-1/#comment-4019 JAS Sun, 01 Feb 2009 16:31:09 +0000 http://michaelandjudystouffer.com/judy/blog/?p=201#comment-4019 <i>Kris, we have bionic bunnies - no doubt about it! Roses don't have to be any work - try Buck or the old fashioned strains developed before WWII. All of those thrive with very little work. The Buck were developed to be pest free, hardy and very insect and disease resistant; the pre- WWII roses are the same, as no one then had the spare time and money to baby flowers. As for your deer, have you read Bill Adler's book, "Outwitting Deer"? Excellent resource! Or, for $50 max, it's easy to put up hot tape (the type us heartlanders use to fence in horses) to keep deer away from prized shrubs. Or, of course, just enjoy the deer! ;-)</I> Kris, we have bionic bunnies – no doubt about it!

Roses don’t have to be any work – try Buck or the old fashioned strains developed before WWII. All of those thrive with very little work. The Buck were developed to be pest free, hardy and very insect and disease resistant; the pre- WWII roses are the same, as no one then had the spare time and money to baby flowers.

As for your deer, have you read Bill Adler’s book, “Outwitting Deer”? Excellent resource! Or, for $50 max, it’s easy to put up hot tape (the type us heartlanders use to fence in horses) to keep deer away from prized shrubs.

Or, of course, just enjoy the deer! ;-)

]]> By: Kris, in New England http://michaelandjudystouffer.com/judy/blog/2009/01/30/friday-flower-rosa-rugosa-aka-the-original-rose/comment-page-1/#comment-4018 Kris, in New England Sat, 31 Jan 2009 17:39:27 +0000 http://michaelandjudystouffer.com/judy/blog/?p=201#comment-4018 Never would have thought bunnies would go for roses. You have some voracious eaters there! We used to have tons of rose bushes and we loved them all - Mr. Lincoln, Double Delight, a mauve rose whose name I don't remember; climbing old fashioned pale pink ones, fairy roses. But they are alot of work and the deer like the blossoms, so all that work and no blooms made us give up on them. Never would have thought bunnies would go for roses. You have some voracious eaters there!

We used to have tons of rose bushes and we loved them all – Mr. Lincoln, Double Delight, a mauve rose whose name I don’t remember; climbing old fashioned pale pink ones, fairy roses.

But they are alot of work and the deer like the blossoms, so all that work and no blooms made us give up on them.

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