Posted by terrepruitt on August 12, 2022
In my area we have a rose garden. I don’t go often, but when I do I say, “I need to visit here more often.” And then I don’t. I visited recently on a hot day. The flowers were hot. I will be posting roses for my Friday Photo for a few weeks now. I didn’t get the names of the roses I took pictures of. I just took pictures of ones that struck me as pretty.
The last time I went was May 2015.
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Posted by terrepruitt on March 19, 2021
I have been missing flowers for awhile. I was lucky enough to receive some for my birthday . . . but I like flowers often so it was high time. And I am using a photo of them for my Friday Photo!
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Posted by terrepruitt on May 1, 2020
Our rose bush has exploded and I woke up this morning to a counter of roses. My husband cut them and brought them in. So awesome. I hope you enjoy them. More crimson stinkers for a Friday Photo.
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Posted by terrepruitt on March 6, 2020
To say I was out of commission last Friday so I didn’t post a Friday Photo, would be an understatement . . . but I am back in commission now so here is a pretty little bouquet. This is from back in January at the Big Dog winery. I love flowers. This is a sweet little bouquet. Such great colors, huh?
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Posted by terrepruitt on September 28, 2018
I should have taken a picture of them the day after I received them, but I didn’t. I set them on the table next to my place in the living room and just enjoyed them. I think I caught them while they still are beautiful. I could easily make my Friday Photos just flowers. Well, maybe flowers and cats.
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Posted by terrepruitt on May 4, 2018
I love our roses. Yeah, I post about them a lot. I take pictures of them on the rose bush. I cut them and bring them in. I take pictures of them in vases. I love them. I was talking to a friend recently who, when I suggested she put roses in her yard, said they are a lot of work. I suppose if you take care of them properly they are. But I don’t know how to properly take care of a rose bush. I am not a gardener. I just like to look at them and cut them and bring them in. That seems to be enough so far.
Here is a rose from our rose bush for today’s Friday Photo.
I love roses. How about you?
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Posted by terrepruitt on May 2, 2015
We have a beautiful rose garden in San Jose, CA. I do not recall ever having been in there before my visit last week. I have lived here all my life and I do not remember ever going inside the Rose Garden. I remember going to it once, but it was closed so we didn’t get in. This past week, my friend wanted to put up some fliers so we decided to walk through the garden. I might have made it all the way through at a more leisurely pace if we had not stopped to talk to one of the ex-gardeners. My friend had been telling me some of what he had said, but he had a lot of information regarding the garden and roses in general. The rose garden is beautiful.
It is 5 1/2–acres of grass and roses. What my friend was telling me and then the ex-gardener expounded upon was that roses get tested there. So there is an entire section of roses that don’t have names. You will just see numbers on the placards. Those are patent numbers. The roses are there for three years and the rose growers see how they do. I am sure there is a list of things they are looking for in order to qualify as a new variety. The are probably being tested for size and color. Also fortitude. I am sure they don’t want a rose that will not be able to grow well. The ex-gardener mentioned that the rose growers are getting more interested in aroma. You might be familiar with the fact that most roses you purchase now-a-days don’t really have a scent. It is as if they are so busy breeding HUGE colorful roses that they bred the scent right out of them.
The ex-gardner mentioned that the public wants smelly roses. So the growers are working on putting the scent back into new varieties.
So it really seems that I picked an AWESOME day to go to the rose garden. I mean, how lucky were we to run into this man who used to work there taking care of the roses. He was so full of information and so kind to take his time to share his knowledge with us. He even pointed out his roses. Miles of Smiles they are called.
The rose garden is host to many events. People take pictures for special events all the time. There is enough grass to have a picnic or just spread out a blanket and relax. There are also a few picnic tables.
The problem for me is after having stopped to talk to the ex-gardener I used up all my “outside-breathe-time”. We ended up rushing through a portion of it so that we could have time to hang the flyers before I passed out from sneezing! My allergies are very apparent this time of year.
We actually have TWO rose gardens in San Jose. The one I recently visited is where they test the new roses and my friend was saying the other one is where they have the old variety of roses. I will have to get to that one.
The website for the San Jose Municipal Rose Garden states that the garden has over 4,000 rose shrubs. There are 189 varieties represented. Click here to visit the website.
Have you ever visited the Rose Garden in San Jose? Did you know they tested roses there?
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Posted by terrepruitt on March 21, 2015
So here it is again, the day I consider to be the first day of spring. Yes, I am a bit off from tradition, but this is the day of new beginnings for me seventeen years ago. As I mentioned two years ago on this date, it is our wedding anniversary. Pretty exciting. Although this year he is sick and I am very grumpy about it! I despise being sick. And I have too much to do to be sick. And I am thinking I am getting sick because I am sooooo grumpy. Argh. All I can think about is being sick for the very first Nia Event I am producing and then I get even more grumpy. Argh. We didn’t do anything for our anniversary because he is sick and I don’t want to get sick. So we did nothing. I didn’t even cook a special dinner because I didn’t think he would enjoy it very much because he is sick. So . . . Happy Anniversary to us.
Good thing, I know he will be around a month or so from now because that is when we will probably finally have time to celebrate. My dinner plan was a roast. I don’t think I have ever cooked a roast. If I have, it has been so long I don’t remember how I did it. What are your favorite recipes? Would you share? It would be nice to make him a really nice, super yummy roast when he can taste. I think our roasts are in the 2.5 to 3 pound range.
I did go outside in the yard today and cut these beauties. My favorite rose bush has at least a dozen buds on it so next week I will have a house full of flowers. That is awesome. Our yard smells like roses. And when we open the door the house smells like roses. So next week, when I cut them and bring them all in the house will smell like roses. Yay!
I have actually started typing three different posts and this is where I ended up. I came up with two different ideas, but I kept coming back to this. The roses are beautiful and they smell great. I am happy to have them and my hubby. I am lucky to have both.
Since I am not a gardener I do marvel at the fact that my rose bush looks like it is dead and it will never come back then without me doing anything and almost (almost but not quite) without me noticing there are at least a dozen buds on it. I do tend to notice because, like I said, it looks dead so I look at it with sorrow. Then I forget about it for a day or two and then when I look at it again, it seems to be fine. After I trimmed off the dead or dying flowers today there is still a lot of buds. Awesome.
Happy Anniversary, Hubby! Here’s to your roast we have yet to have!
So what did you do (yesterday) on the first day of Spring? What did you do today?
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Posted by terrepruitt on June 3, 2014
Holy Moly! I love to learn stuff, but some stuff I would rather not learn in a “first hand” manner. Ya know what I mean? Like emergency response times (I am not saying I learned this first hand), but that is an example I am using. I don’t want to know first hand how long it takes for an ambulance or a fire truck to get to me . . . because that would mean I would be in a situation where I had the opportunity to learn that. That is what I mean. There are some things I could do without learning or could have done with out learning. Recently I learned about something I had never heard of and quiet frankly I am shocked. But I guess it is a really good thing because perhaps that means that it is not that common. Have you ever heard of Rose Grower’s Disease or Rose Gardener’s Disease? It is an actual “disease” you can get from a rose!!
I know so many people who have roses, I am surprised I have
never hear of it until now. I am just going to quote directly from an online dictionary:
“Sporotrichosis is a chronic infection caused by the microscopic fungus Sporothrix schenckii. The disease causes ulcers on the skin that are painless but do not heal, as well as nodules or knots in the lymph channels near the surface of the body. Infrequently, sporotrichosis affects the lungs, joints, or central nervous system and can cause serious illness.
The fungus that causes sporotrichosis is found in spagnum moss, soil, and rotting vegetation. Anyone can get sporotrichosis, but it is most common among nursery workers, farm laborers, and gardeners handling spagnum moss, roses, or barberry bushes.”
The fungus can get into your system via cut or a scrape. Of anyone who has handled a rose, who has NOT been stabbed by a thorn? Eek. And that is how you get it from the fungus from the source itself. It is not contagious, as in it does not get passed from person to person. But it is Zoonosis, so according to Wiki a person can get it from an infected animal. I was thinking that it must be one of those things that people get when they have a weakened immune system . . . and . . . yup, that is what this dictionary states. Otherwise I think it would be more common and I would have gotten it. Because I have been pricked by thorns a lot. Sometimes I look down and the thorn is still in my skin. OWWWW. Could be too that our roses don’t have this fungus, but I don’t know.
When trying to come up with words and phrases to do a search on the internet that would show me what a rose bush that has this fungus looks like, other pictures that I cannot stomach showed up. So if any of you know what the plant would look like . . . please let me know. (Be careful searching the internet!)
The information that I have read regarding the disease states that it is painless, but it does not look painless. But any time I see a red bump I think it is painful, but that is not always the case. The treatment varies . . . as in the medicine used, but all information I have seen says it my be taken for weeks sometimes months of treatment. So apparently it takes a long time to get this out of the body.
So . . . if you garden wear your gloves and be careful out there.
Had you heard of this disease? Do you know what roses that have it look like?
Posted in Misc | Tagged: emergency response times, Learn first hand, Online dictionary, rose bushes, rose fungus, Rose Gardener's Disease, Rose Grower's Disease, Roses, sporothrix schenckii, sporotrichosis, Wiki, zoonosis | 2 Comments »
Posted by terrepruitt on March 22, 2014
Sometimes I just can’t think of anything to write about. Sometimes it could be that I want or need a break. So today — I am just going to post some pictures. We have been having really beautiful weather in the San Francisco South Bay Area and beyond. I love it, but I wish we would have rain because we need it. But . . . it is Spring now . . . so I will enjoy it.
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The first few pictures are from a trip to Natural Bridges — a state park in the Santa Cruz area of California. Whenever we go to Santa Cruz for a Nia class we like to stop by the ocean. Santa Cruz is not that far from San Jose, but I just don’t get over there often. When I make the drive over I like to at least set my eyes on the ocean. I remembered my phone has panorama. The bridge that was natural actually collapsed a while ago, but it is still a very pretty spot.
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Then, the next week, I was “over the hill” again. I was visiting a friend who is moving. She wanted to get the kids out of the house on such a gorgeous day. This is a slide at one of the parks. WOW!
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And, of course, I take a million pictures of my cat, so I thought I would share.
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She likes to be in her outside house but with the door open. She loves the sun, but doesn’t like to get too hot.
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Then there are our roses. They are in bloom. They are beautiful. And, yes, they smell fantastic.
I like to bring the beauty inside. They make the house smell great!
Thanks for taking this little Spring Break with me!
Are you enjoying the season?
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