Trip to Werribee State Rose Gardens tomorrow..

The much anticipated trip to the Werribee State Rose Gardens has arrived , tomorrow , they are having their first ever fair , weather is going to be beautiful , it should be a lovely day .......

What a fortunate pair you and silky are. Impressions, pix eagerly anticipated.

Got my camera battery charging now Betsy lol !!

Yep, camera is charged and so am I!

Silky , i'll have on my Geelong Cats polo top , and blue hat , too hot for a footy scarf , if you would like to say hello ...

Maree, if you are going to Werribee, you must live close, I would not be on the computer, I would have been at the gate as it opened.

Roseman , i've been there probably about half a dozen times , this is the first time they have had a exhibition or fair there , i'm probably about a hour away , today was really good , they had lots of stalls there , and got talked into joining the Victorian rose society very soon by the people they had at the fair there , all in all a good day , a bit hot though pheww !!

Whatjya buy? (We need an emoticon for an empty wallet)

Lol , didn't buy any roses Betsy , Silkie roses were there , but not a whole lot of roses that i saw to buy , they had the usual hand made garden sort of stuff , bought a couple of books from the Victorian rose society , heaps and heaps of people there , didn't see Silky ....

Maree I looked and looked for anything 'Cats" but couldn't see you. I would have loved to finally meet you. It was too hot for my scarf too. I had a great day, bought a Henri Matisse, heavily discounted at the end of the day. It's gorgeous, always planned on getting one. It will take the place of my Parole (orange alien cuckoo). I wasn't that enamoured of the Parole bed so got Henri instead. Took me an hour just to get back out onto the freeway and then another hour to get home. Now I'm pooped. Will try to post some pix tomorrow.

betsyw wrote:Whatjya buy? (We need an emoticon for an empty wallet)

I looked and searched, but to no avail......

Silky , i did take my Cats scarf and tied it to my bag , to be more visible and i had on my Cats top as well , ( footy trajic )never mind there were lots of people there , maybe you should have worn a Pies top lol , i'm sure you will love Henri , he's a good reliable rose thats for sure ...

Silky, congrats on that excellent Henri.
Maree. you're fired. And your membership in the Impulse Buyers Club is hereby revoked. We have a zero-tolerance policy toward restraint.

Lol ha ha Betsy , does it count that i bought four roses about a month ago from Silkies , three were standards and it cost me a arm and a leg , surely that must count lol !!

maree wrote: , does it count that i bought four roses about a month ago from Silkies , three were standards and it cost me a arm and a leg , surely that must count lol !!

 
 
as the self made umpire for the Impulse Buyers Club, mare.......I checked the video review, and those roses you brought about a month ago, don't count.......you forgot to read the small print........the operative words are Impulse Buying.......which you did not qualify.....sorry about that...better luck next time to get into the "Club".......

OH DRAT !!! 

Maree, never you mind about taking a break from the Impulse Buyers Club. Nothing wrong with a bit of restraint! Hahaha. All too soon you'll succumb and pop it in a pot!
BTW what was the 4th rose you got from Silkies? You mentioned getting Jardin de Bagatelles, Jubilee Celebration and Valencia as standards, from memory, so what was the other one?

She *did* buy books and join the Rose Society on impulse... In fact, I'd hazard a guess that such things would be *strengthening* her membership in the Impulse Buyers Club - training and research. She will be a rose buyer on a mission.

 

You got it alright Autumn  , definately on a mission , on a quest in fact , looking for the holy grail of roses lol ... Silky i bought another Nahema , great rose much better than Pierrre de Ronstaad ...

Ahh, now you tell me! Lol
Yes the fragrance from Nahema is enough to make your heart skip a beat. Beautiful flowers too. Stiff canes though and that put me off and steered me to Pierre de Ronsard. (BTW are you thinking of Linda??Lol) Where are you gonna put it Maree? Have you got an arch? I'd love to have one.

Silky i bought another Nahema , great rose much better than Pierrre de Ronstaad ... wrote:

That's a big call.

Ausrose Pierre is a great rose , i had four of them , two pink and two red ones , but alas no fragrance , i like Nahema much better , the canes are okay if you train them young , but then mine are still young plants . Silky we have a small wooden arbour and a arch that is just made out of reo , works really well ...

I want Nahema too! I love love love the look of Pierre but it has no fragrance, and it seems to grow really really slowly around here. Two of my neighbours have had them for years and nothing much is happening. I will order it from Silkies next winter

My Pierres grew alright , you have to train them though horizontally and vertically , just can't see the point in growing roses with no fragrance , i pulled mine out ,( on my quest here ) i'll post some photos of Nahema , as she gets bigger ...

Ooh yes please Maree.