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GardenGeisha
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Very interesting! I live at a church, so 'Lazarus' would be perfect for me to plant. HAHA.
That's exactly how I felt when my Lavender Simplicity supposedly died. I do think it was the super cold of the freak Thanksgiving 0 degree F temp that got it. The rest of the winter was not that cold, nor that long. The Rose Society here told me it was that super cold fall freeze that got everyone's roses that year. Most growers lost 5 or 6. I lost 3, but the Lavender Simplicities came back. One didn't leaf out until August, following the awful Thanksgiving freeze. It just suddenly sprouted up in August out of a supposedly dead stump, so I'm nearly certain it grew from its own roots.
Resurrection!
The other 2 that I thought were dead came back weakly with one or two small green shoots that spring. They got bigger over the summer.
Another still seems to be dead, but I haven't given up on it yet. I'm certainly not going to uproot it, given what happened with the late-to-resurrect Lavender Simplicity of last summer.
Do you think the Mr. Lincoln can get big on the Dr. Huey rootstock? Right now, it is still puny, and major windstorms take out its small canes. I don't mind the looks of Dr. Huey.
That's exactly how I felt when my Lavender Simplicity supposedly died. I do think it was the super cold of the freak Thanksgiving 0 degree F temp that got it. The rest of the winter was not that cold, nor that long. The Rose Society here told me it was that super cold fall freeze that got everyone's roses that year. Most growers lost 5 or 6. I lost 3, but the Lavender Simplicities came back. One didn't leaf out until August, following the awful Thanksgiving freeze. It just suddenly sprouted up in August out of a supposedly dead stump, so I'm nearly certain it grew from its own roots.
Resurrection!
The other 2 that I thought were dead came back weakly with one or two small green shoots that spring. They got bigger over the summer.
Another still seems to be dead, but I haven't given up on it yet. I'm certainly not going to uproot it, given what happened with the late-to-resurrect Lavender Simplicity of last summer.
Do you think the Mr. Lincoln can get big on the Dr. Huey rootstock? Right now, it is still puny, and major windstorms take out its small canes. I don't mind the looks of Dr. Huey.
