It's a real mess, but once I get it cleaned out, this will be a good year for 'Carnival Glass', a miniature rose I've grown for many years, i.e. before we came to Colorado. The picture is here because I noted the rose leaves which feature in this Girl Sprout NM entry.
And that entry reminded me of the late Oregon rose grower, Fred Edmunds, who was able to identify roses by leaf, alone. Given the thousands and thousands of roses in cultivation, I think that would be an extraordinary skill.
I grant that Fred was most active in the rose growing world before the popularity of English and old garden roses, but I'm not sure much would have thrown him. He was a brilliantly hard worker, erudite and funny, and a fine gentleman.
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