I sure hope our well water lasts. I watered everything yesterday and this morning. Forecast for today is 100 degrees, winds at 40 mph and humidity of 7%. Yes seven. Fire danger is extreme, and with less than 2" of rain so far this year, water sources are down.
Our yearly rose club sale was yesterday. I love working this sale. I can usually talk people into buying more roses than they planned to buy. If they were buying Julia Child, I talked them into planting Ebb Tide next to it. If they came for 1 drift rose, I told them to plant a whole area with them. We had Bucks, Earthkind, a few minis, Drifts, and a few easy care climbers.
We had Harison's Yellow this year, and a couple of people bought it because it reminded them of grandparents' homesteads. They were able to overlook the monstrous thorns. Nobody wanted New Dawn, and Zephirine sold out, as usual. We order the roses from Chamblee and High Country. HC sent them in liner pots, and they were small, without blooms so that was kind of a hard sell for $16. Lowes and HD have gorgeous roses for $10, if you don't care about accurate names.
Weeks generously sent us a nice box of bare root roses. We only sold 1...to me. Nobody but nobody is interested in trying to grow a dormant bare root rose when temps and wind are this high. The club gifted me with a few after the sale, so I'll pot them today and try to keep them misted. They are soaking now. I wish Weeks had sent them to us 6 weeks ago instead of Friday. We had a speaker from Weeks at a meeting this winter, so that's why we had the bonanza.
