Alan - I know what it looks like. Which is why I haven't posted many parades this year compared to last year.. the drought and heat have just murdered them. I'm getting blooms now because I finally broke down and have been watering like a spigot. My water bill is going to be ridiculous, but I'm tired of my roses not blooming! We have had less than 1/2" of rain in the since Aug 1. As I look out the window, I see big poofy fat rain clouds building. Rain here? No. We don't even get that rain that evaporates before it hits (can NEVER remember what kind of rain.. starts with a V.. like viseral or something like that). Nothing. As I look out, I see trees that have already lost all their leaves, not due to autumn chills, but due to lack of water. It just sucks.
PPal - I think the reason why some roses survive in climates they shouldn't is kind of like that old Looney Tune cartoon when Bugs & Elmer are youngsters and Bugs tells Elmer that he can't run off a cliff, he'll fall due to the law of gravity and Elmer explains that it doesn't work that way, he hasn't learned about the Law of Gravity yet, so it's OK.
http://www.brainfuel.tv/bugs-b...
