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  • From: KTCopsey@aol.com
  • To: gwl-g@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [gwl-g] In need of a rose
  • Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 17:32:15 EDT

In a message dated 4/30/2006 5:21:14 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, Hamptongar@aol.com writes:
Deer are not an issue at this location and neither are Japanese beetles.  Had one deer in the past year...a fawn that fell asleep on my back porch.
Er....baby deer have a habit of having a mama deer around too and rarely do deer travel alone.
As for roses: we inherited a Jackson and Perkins 'Hansa' (one of the few things here with a tag still on).  It is large, but prunable; I have never sprayed it but had no black spot etc.; and it does seem to survive quite nicely along with the deer and other wildlife around here, of which we have an abundance.  I do think that its age helps though - it is thorny and most of the branches were >1" diameter. It is growing in zone 5b.
 
 
Kate Copsey
Freelance Garden Writer
Herbs, Historic Gardens
Pittsburgh, PA
www.katecopsey.com



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