Rosemania announced it's closing
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Comments (13)I have had a wish list of Sequoia Supplemental List roses cooking for a while now. With this fall's announcement of the nursery's closing, I ordered everything I wanted -- most of which I can't find in the catalogs of other nurseries around the country, except by custom-root from Vintage. A couple of weeks ago, I went through their site again, and put together another large order. If the nursery wasn't 3000 miles from here on the other side of the country, I would have probably taken the truck and picked up one of everything I saw. Off the top of my head, I know I ordered Dancing Doll, the sister seedling to Renae; Alba Odorata; Los Angeles, a harder-to-find old HT; Climbing Dainty Bess; James Bougalt, white HP; and Golden Glow, a Brownell climber with Glenn Dale and Mary Wallace in its pedigree -- as much as I love Van Fleet roses, I had to have this one. Rest assured, there is a garden on the east coast where a healthy supply of Supplemental List roses will reside -- and a garden owner who is thrilled to have them. My only regret is that there were some others that I wanted to have which were already sold out; I Zingare, and Duchesse de Grammant, and others. I have never had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Moore, but I know and love many of his roses. His drive and his spirit and his imagination should be an inspiration to us all. I wish him the very best of everything with his upcoming retirement. Connie...See MoreBareroot Roses at Rosemania
Comments (8)By the way, the photo of Dark Night is pretty darn close. The best I've seen that truly describes the bloom without saying a word. Now if they can get a good shot of the beautiful foliage that comes right up under the bloom, no one will have to say a word to sell it....See MoreStatton Furniture Closing it's doors...
Comments (7)This is incredibly sad. Thirty years ago I bought 2 of their mirrors as this was all I could afford. My dear SIL has a Statton china cabinet and a Statton dining room table and chairs that are more than 40 years old. All of these pieces are truly heirlooms of marvelous quality that look better today than when they were new. This makes me feel so old because a voice in my brain is saying the world is changing---not for the better---and it sounds like my grandmother talking to me about how supermarket chickens didn't taste as good as the ones she raised. I once dismissed this because I thought she just couldn't accept the reality that everything changes. Now I wish she was still around to talk with about her experiences with the changing world....See MoreAnnouncement wording
Comments (20)Talley Sue is right, as usual. Although you are correct that even "no gifts, please" is "incorrect," (because even though it is not greedy, it is still making a connection between making an announcement (or invitation) and the idea that the recipient might wish to give you a gift), it certainly is not in any way offensive or tacky or rude or anything like that. Many people who "know better" go ahead and write "no gifts" anyway, because the etiquette lapse is so minor and there is no negative message, only the completely inoffensive message that "we really are just sharing this good news with you; we aren't doing this to ask for a gift." Like Talley Sue, I don't let "no gifts, please," stop me from sending a gift if I want to! I'd stick with the plain wording. I know it seems sort of cold or formal to you. But I don't find announcements or invitations with only the traditional wording cold or formal when I receive them, and in fact something that seems cutesy or too mushy almost seems LESS personal, somehow -- sort of like a printed greeting card, if you know what I mean. Miss Manners says something like it's better to let your happiness simply shine through plain wording, rather than to lard on stuff like "a celebration of our love" that suggests that perhaps the couple is protesting too much ... ? I suggest this wording: Jamie mylastname and Brent hislastname were married on September 4, 2004. The Hislastnames now reside at our new address city, state phone number e-mail address (!) I'd leave out anything about "Private" or "Parents and siblings." If you are including a photo, they will see that you aren't in a huge wedding gown, etc., so they will know it was a small ceremony. The close friends and relatives will already know exactly who was there, so they won't feel hurt, and the ones that aren't close enough to have heard the news aren't close enough to feel offended anyway, especially if you put the "no gifts, please" notation on, so they know they aren't being hinted to for gifts....See Morecharles kidder
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