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Name: Greg Colucci Seattle WA (Zone 8b)              gg5 Jun 10, 2013 3:10 PM CST |
Porkpal, that is the most common colorblindness in men - I have a friend who can't tell between brown and green so all the Olive green shades, and browns are obscure for him. I didn't know this until I was at their house one time and he came in with "wrong" color matching in his shirt/pants outfit - his wife said "Nope it ain't gonna work dear" then they told me he's colorblind! I think there are many people that have this and it just isn't talked about !  |
Name: Zuzu Northern California (Zone 9a)             |
| I think a lot of men have trouble seeing a straight line. I always want to adjust the paintings hanging in men's homes, even the homes of gay men, and men need all sorts of measuring tools and levels to put up a shelf, whereas a woman can do it just by sight. |
Name: Greg Colucci Seattle WA (Zone 8b) gg5 Jun 10, 2013 3:13 PM CST |
 Sounds like something coming from a woman!  I totally am fixing people's pictures hanging on their walls, and now I know my "fixing" is probably off!! |
Name: Porkpal Richmond, TX       porkpal Jun 10, 2013 3:28 PM CST |
| Ah-ha! I retook the test and scores a 4! Interestingly my bad guesses were in a different range this time (?) My father once bought himself a "brown" suit which turned out to be green. He usually let my mother shop for him. Suspecting that my architect husband was not as color-aware as he thought, I once paired his socks one brown, one olive green, and he wore them that way - all 6 pairs! On the other hand he can take a pen a draw a perfectly straight line free hand. Porkpal |
Name: Greg Colucci Seattle WA (Zone 8b) gg5 Jun 10, 2013 10:12 PM CST |
| That's hilarious porkpal! |
Name: Cindi Wichita, Kansas (Zone 7a)          CindiKS Jun 11, 2013 7:15 AM CST |
Porkpal, you have the same situation I have. My daughters carry the red-green deficiency gene from their father and from my father. If they have sons, they will be color blind. Years ago, I had horrible visual acuity. I finally went to Canada to get Lasik on my eyes (this was before we had it here) and the instant my eye was zapped, I was seeing colors I had never seen before! The doctor said I basically went from a 28 color vision to thousands. It was the most incredible thing.  Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get. H. Jackson Brown, Jr. |
Name: Toni Denver Metro (Zone 5a) Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.        Skiekitty Jun 11, 2013 9:39 AM CST |
| Cindi - WOW. I had never heard of Lasik having that kind of a side effect! I've thought about it, but I'm too chicken and glasses are a lot cheaper. Now if they could just install ultraviolet vision when they zapped... Roses are one of my passions! Just opened, my Etsy shop (to fund my rose hobby)! http://www.etsy.com/shop/Tweet... |
Name: Michele Roth N.E. Indiana - Zone 5b I'm always on my way out the door..      chelle Jun 11, 2013 11:40 AM CST |
Queen Elizabeth has a couple of nice big blooms today. It had some damage, but not as much as the rest. I didn't remove the partially stripped canes, so I guess it healed up on its own.   New Dawn's first cluster of the year. It's very vigorous, so no worries with this one.  |
Name: Greg Colucci Seattle WA (Zone 8b) gg5 Jun 11, 2013 12:06 PM CST |
haha Thanks Chelle for keeping us on track! (should we start a new "color" thread!  ) |
Name: Michele Roth N.E. Indiana - Zone 5b I'm always on my way out the door.. chelle Jun 11, 2013 12:37 PM CST |
 I didn't have anything to add about the color test, so I just went back to the roses.  |
Name: Greg Colucci Seattle WA (Zone 8b) gg5 Jun 11, 2013 5:42 PM CST |
Very good! I love roses! Ok so here is my offer of a rosel. I have 2 varieties in my yard, I have 5 different bushes of this white one, as a boundary from the street. The wind was blowing so only a semi photo!  |
Name: Michele Roth N.E. Indiana - Zone 5b I'm always on my way out the door.. chelle Jun 11, 2013 6:18 PM CST |
| Is that your Kleenex Rose? It's very pretty! Here's mine.  (Oops, that was on another thread, wasn't it?  ) |
Name: Greg Colucci Seattle WA (Zone 8b) gg5 Jun 11, 2013 6:32 PM CST |
| Yes, what's a kleenex rose? One that you'd see on a box? If so than yes it is! I don't know the name but it is a very thorny one! |
Name: Michele Roth N.E. Indiana - Zone 5b I'm always on my way out the door.. chelle Jun 11, 2013 6:38 PM CST |
| Sorry, Greg. Here ya go. The thread "I Hate Knock Out Roses" in Roses forum ...midway down the page... Mine is Madame Hardy. I'm surprised it bloomed this year since it was one that was clipped to the ground. |
Name: Greg Colucci Seattle WA (Zone 8b) gg5 Jun 11, 2013 6:47 PM CST |
| Thanks Chelle! Mine however has an amazing smell! It is a very plain looking one, but smells so rich that you think its fake!! (by the way, I rent so I don't own these! I pruned them waay back this year and they're going crazy with the blooms!) Cheers and now I'll keep my eyes open for Kleenex roses! haha |
Name: Michele Roth N.E. Indiana - Zone 5b I'm always on my way out the door.. chelle Oct 30, 2013 7:02 AM CST |
| Season's-end update: It was a fairly poor year for blooms here, although it appears that the rabbit damage really only affected the once-blooming roses. At this point, I think the lack of sufficient rainfall during the growing season is much more cause for concern than rabbit predation. I do plan to clean up around my climbers and get their lower canes wrapped for the winter, but I doubt I'll bother much with the shrub roses.  |
Name: Toni Denver Metro (Zone 5a) Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. Skiekitty Oct 30, 2013 10:54 AM CST |
| Chelle - I understand completely. Winter was slow in letting go here, so my season was very short... and then so very very dry everyone was stingy with their blooms. And when we finally *did* get rain, we got too much!! (http://cubits.org/bluegardens/... http://cubits.org/bluegardens/... ). Hopefully next year will be better. Roses are one of my passions! Just opened, my Etsy shop (to fund my rose hobby)! http://www.etsy.com/shop/Tweet... |
Name: Michele Roth N.E. Indiana - Zone 5b I'm always on my way out the door.. chelle Oct 30, 2013 12:20 PM CST |
| That kind of rainfall is amazingly scary! We're supposed to get some decent rain tomorrow, so I still haven't started the roses. Too busy digging out the drainage trench by the barn and repairing gutters out there, too. I know that once the moisture really gets going here we're likely to be wet almost continually until mid-December, and I don't want to be doing that stuff during that time! Mud gets heavy...and ladders perched in mud tend to topple. In the past I've had issues with ladder safety... ...funny now, but not so funny then. |
Name: Cindi Wichita, Kansas (Zone 7a) CindiKS Oct 31, 2013 12:35 PM CST |
| FOUR inches of rain in the rain gauge this morning! WOOHOO! The ponds are full, the trees are getting color, and the squirrels are keeping my dogs busy. . Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get. H. Jackson Brown, Jr. |
Name: Michele Roth N.E. Indiana - Zone 5b I'm always on my way out the door.. chelle Oct 31, 2013 12:56 PM CST |
 Send more up this way, would you? It's going to take a whole lot more than what we're getting to fill ours. |
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