RoseBlush1 said:Sherry ... you can forget the Descanso rose gardens. The historical rose beds have all been torn up and most of the roses disposed of as trash.
That's so sad since many of those roses were quite rare and may never be found in any other garden again.
Oh no.... That's so sad. I haven't been in probably 25 years.. Things change. Sometimes not for the best.
I hate to think of old roses as a passing fad. I'll bet you know (or know of) Barbara Worl. I used to work in her garden in Menlo Park before I moved to Santa Cruz. She also had a big vacant lot in Palo Alto where she grew a pretty big collection of old roses. When the property was sold, it was bulldozed. I don't remember how many they managed to save or get cuttings from, but it wasn't everything...
