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Today's alarm clock:
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Very old rosebush by back door. View attachment 865210
When I sold the old homestead almost 20 years ago now that is one thing I wish I had taken cuttings from.
My mothers rose bush was old and absolutely huge. When it started to bloom in early summer it went until the frosts.
As a little guy I remember my mother making my Kindergarten teacher a bouquet and sending it to school with me.
It never required any special care.
And the aroma...
I don't know who or when it was planted.
I hope it's still there.
 
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I cut it way back last Fall, I was afraid I cut too much since it was up over the roof gutter. We throw banana peels on it and a handful of Milorganite...but I know very little about roses. My grandmother next door had islands around their yard and I do that here.
One is mostly roses, not blooming much yet.
This is newest one I started in the Fall, Autumn Blaze maple to left, a few bushes and Peony.
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I have to cage the roses here or the deer will eat them to the ground.
Mine are still on bud stage, everything getting ready to flower out.
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Red-breasted nuthatch is a small songbird. The adult has blue-grey upperparts with cinnamon underparts, a white throat and face with a black stripe through the eyes, a straight grey bill and a black crown. Its call, which has been likened to a tin trumpet, is high-pitched and nasal.

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