Hello! I'm also a refugee from Garden Web/Houzz. I guess I already have an account here, and didn't realize it.
I often posted on the Antique Roses Forum, (under the name "Lisa Adams") but I grow pretty much everything that will grow here in So CA , and some things that shouldn't succeed here. I'm definitely looking for a new home!
I'll start with my favorite rose, 'Mel's Heritage'. I absolutely love this rose!


And here,(obviously) is a shot of 'Cornelia'. She's blooming very well this year! Planted into the ground about a 16 months ago.

I also want to say how happy I am to see some familiar names, here! I'm glad to see some old friends, and I'm excited about making new ones, too! I already recognize "Zulu" and "CA Sue", from past exploration of garden.org. You both grow lovely roses, btw.
I'm a HUGE Annie's Annuals fan, so I need to find that "not raffle"! LOL

Hey ya'll I'm also mostly from the land of gw now Houzz. Had been posting there since before 2005 on one sn or another. Good to see everyone here.
About me..
I am currently in NE FL near the Atlantic coast and The St John's River on about 4 wooded acres. We also have another smaller river branch behind our property. So the humidity here in the summer is wicked. Much of the late fall, winter, and spring is drier and the daytime temps are nice 60-80'sF. Nights in Jan &Feb can get into the 20's F so I grow a lot of sub/tropical stuff in a greenhouse.

I've lived in a bunch of other states ranging from very swamps to cold high elevations to low desert and have learned (mostly) the hard way to be flexible and try new ways of growing what I want lol.
~Sjn

Lisa, here is the raffle info:
https://garden.org/ideas/view/...

I am also coming from Houzz. I read more than post.
I grow roses in the Willamette valley in Oregon and prefer old garden to modern roses.

I am also a new member that has left the Houzz rose forum. I'm glad to see familiar names and looking forward to meeting new people who love roses as much as me. I'm glad to have found a new home, I just need to figure a few things out lol. Like how to start a thread I live in SE TX and grow a antique roses as well as modern and David Austin roses. I edited to add that I am known as Boncrow66 on the Houzz rose forums.

OK, I have to be extra post challenged today. I wrote something and it disappeared. Came over from Houzz. Going to give this forum a try. Nice to see some familiar faces on here.

I grow own root roses and have started some roses from seed for a breeder. I have a tiny yard, so there is not much space. I will see if I can post a picture.


This is my backyard.

Woohoo, @WitchyWV. Look what you've done!

We heartily welcome all Houzz refugees. We understand your position because many of us were disgruntled members of Dave's Garden who left with Dave when that site started going downhill.

@ashleys, I love, love, love your avatar.

@Ray_Gun, once you have posted in a thread, new responses to that thread will be noted on your home page. You can also click to "watch" other threads or whole forums, and new responses to them will also be listed on your home page.

@jerijen, you're one of my heroes, so I'm delighted that you're here. I've created a database entry for Benny Lopez and I hope you'll add your photo to it.

Rose (Rosa 'Benny Lopez')

I'll explain more about the rose database in a future post. I don't want this one to get so long that it scares people away.

@RosesnTx, to start a new thread in the rose forum, go to the forum home page and scroll down to "Start a new thread."

https://garden.org/forums/view...

@Mustbnuts, I love that photo of your backyard.

I saw some concern on the Houzz site about the "National" portion of our name. Please assure your Gardenweb friends that we have members from all over the world. The only limitation they face is their inability to claim raffle prizes because of international shipping constraints. Some of them still enter the raffles and give any prizes they might win to fellow members in the United States.

I used to be on Dave's Garden as well- left that and went back to GW lol. DG really went downhill. It really was a great site at one time. Got some of my best trades there.

@zuzu that's great information, thanks! I went back to houzz to let them know about international members and the entire thread seems to be deleted. I wonder if they're getting nervous??

They deserve to be nervous after they've alienated their members by making changes and not responding to members' concerns.

Just saw all the new members from the "Recently Tipped" section

WELCOME TO ALL OF YOU

We're so glad you're here

Okay, I'm back with some information about the rose database. I had to do some actual gardening for a while first. Imagine that.

The cultivars are listed alphabetically by their exhibition names. If a rose has no exhibition name, it's listed under the name most commonly used by owners and sellers on the HMF "Gardens" and "Buy from" pages. If you can't find a rose in the alphabetical listings, try the search function. Each cultivar entry includes all of the alternative cultivar names I could find for the rose, and those names will come up in the search results.

The rose database is limited in size because Sue and I never wanted to have a huge database filled with "empty" entries for roses no longer available in commerce or grown in any gardens (unless they're important in breeding lines). We were mainly interested in photos, in fact, and we dreamed of a day when we'd open a page of the database and see a photo for every entry on that page. It's our private Bingo game that neither of us has won yet.

The parentage data is missing from some entries because Sue and I started this database in Cubits and didn't include a parentage field. When the database was moved to this site, neither of us could muster up the energy to go back and add data to more than 5,000 entries. That shortcoming is being corrected, but only very gradually.

If you find something to add or correct in any of the rose entries, you can fill out a name edit proposal or a data proposal or simply send me a tree-mail explaining the omission or error. The same goes for new additions to the rose database. Fill out a new plant proposal. It's really simple. You can just add the genus (Rosa) and the cultivar name and then add a link from HMF or some other site to prove the rose exists. Or....you can send me a tree-mail requesting the addition.

The search by characteristics function is a useful part of the rose database. You can search for all of our white David Austin roses, for example, by checking the "White and white blend" box in the bloom color field and typing Austin in the hybridizer field. This search is particularly valuable if you take Sue's advice and compose your own plant list. Then you can quickly see, for example, all of the hybrid perpetuals you're growing by checking the "Hybrid perpetual" box in the Class field and checking "Only show plants that are in my personal Plant Lists" at the bottom of the search form.

My next post will address database photos.

And zuzu puts up with plenty of mistakes by those of us new to adding plants to the database or who can't find a rose by the name we know it by so we go to create a new entry for one that exists. Yep, been there, done that. She puts up with it well and eventually gets us stubborn ones on the right path.

I landed here when Houzz started messing up for me for than a month ago. There are some really nice folks here, and nobody is trying to sell me furniture!!! It will be even nicer with all you lovely fellow refugees.

Virginia

No furniture pitches, I promise, but I am going to beg you to add your photos to the database.

Needless to say, any photo you add to the database must be your own or must include the proper attribution to the photo's actual owner.

Joe and Mustbnuts have added photos to this forum that are perfect Landscape photos. If you "tag" the different plants in your photo, the photo will show up in each of those entries. Go to this page and click on "Add a landscape photo."

https://garden.org/plants/mult...

You tag the plants by drawing boxes around them and matching each plant to a database entry. Here's a recent landscape photo contributed by Paul



If you click on Paul's photo to enlarge it, you'll see that he has tagged three different plants, so the photo will appear in three entries.

If you have trouble tagging, just ask for help.

Witchy, Jeri, and Lisa posted lovely photos in this thread. It's really easy to import thread photos into the database. Just click on your photo to enlarge it and then click on the blue symbol at the bottom of the photo. You'll be asked for the name of the plant. Click on the name in the search results and choose a gallery (Bloom, Entire plant, etc.). Then submit the import proposal for approval.

Other photos can be added to the database by going to the plant entry in the database and clicking on "upload a photo."

VIRGINIA!!!! I can't tell you how happy I am to see that you're here! I've missed you, and I know many others have as well. I'm just thrilled about seeing some familiar "faces", here! It's wonderful that Jeri has come over, too! I'd do a happy dance, if I was up to it! I'm seeing more and familiar folks, and I just began posting today. :hurray:
Thank you for the link about the not-raffles! I see lots of goodies there! I better get earning some Acorns.
Thanks so much Witchygirrl, for sending me that message last night. I'm sorry you didn't get any Acorns from me joining, because I had already signed up a year ago. I can't remember why I made an account, and then didn't use it, but I will use it now. I'm feeling so much better about the whole mess on Houzz, now. I really was feeling like someone had locked me out of my own beloved home. Lisa
Silver Cloud by Ralph Moore 1990

Hey guys! Figured I'd come over here too. Saw this place a few weeks ago, but didn't join. With all the crap going on at Houzz, not sure I want to stay there. It's just not the same. I was a Gardenweb member since before 2000. It's gone thru a lot of changes, most of which got worse and worse. Too bad. It was a great place to hang out in the old days. But looks like this will be a good place to come to now.

Too bad about Dave's Garden too. I hadn't been on there in a long time, but went there awhile back and was really surprised at how different it was. Tried to find the Rose Database, but couldn't figure out how to get to it. Oh well... Nice to know about this place and I'm sure I'll be on here as a regular. LOL

Lisa and Beth!

Beth, years ago when I was still on Davesgarden, I also lurked often on Gardenweb with an occasional post. I had always admired all you rose photos and the sheer amount of them!

Hey, Beth, it's great to see you here. In a tree-mail to RoseBlush1 last night, I said I hoped you would be among the refugees. You've been a hero of mine for years. We seem to like the same roses, and even when I was at my craziest and feeling a little odd about buying hundreds of roses each year, you always managed to stay about 100 roses ahead of me, making me feel quite sane.

Now we need Marlorena and Nippstress, and who else?