Taqiyyah ...
I haven't gotten all of my mulching and weeding for this year done yet either. Of course, I have the excuse that I can't just go out and buy mulch, but have to go out and gather my leaves and bring them home and shred them. I've been putting off that chore.
My rose mentor made me do a LOT of homework when he was teaching me about roses. I'll start a new thread with an excerpt from Jack Harkness's book
Roses about the botany of how a rose plant produces fragrance since this a question that seems to come up quite often on this Forum. I think it will allow site users to do a search.
I might as well take the time. I am stuck inside by the heat ...
Here you go:
The thread "Fragrance In Roses" in
Roses forum