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Mar 20, 2012 11:07 AM CST
Name: Toni
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I will be going to the "Night of Wine & Roses" at Tagawa Gardens (http://tagawagardens.com/docum... http://tagawagardens.com/tgros...) on April 20th at 4pm, but I'm not buying any roses from Tagawa's this year. #1, they have a hard time surviving the winters here because they're so babied in their greenhouse... takes 3-4 weeks of "hardening" off before they will live outside and I'm just too lazy to be pulling roses in & out of my garage on nice days for 3 weeks! #2, too expensive - $40/rose? Uh.. no. #3 - Star Roses. Tagawa's is carrying mostly either Weeks or Star Roses this year (no J&P) and, to be honest, the Star Roses look like CRAP. They were all planted at the same time (Tagawa's gets a gazillion bare-root & pot 'em up & grow them in their store/greenhouse for 2 months before letting anyone buy any.. the "night of wine & roses" or, as everyone else calls it, the "running of the little-old-ladies" as it's like a madhouse when they start selling at 4pm!) and the Star Roses are like 1/2 the size of the Weeks roses.. very puny & pathetic. Plus I haven't had any luck with Star Roses.

But here's Sugar Moon (3 of them in separate pots)
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And Home & Family - off to the right you can see some of the Star Roses (Gemini) and how puny they are.
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Roses are one of my passions! Just opened, my Etsy shop (to fund my rose hobby)! http://www.etsy.com/shop/Tweet...
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