from a dead looking stick

[Jim]

3 years ago a friend gave us a dead looking stick and told us if we planted the stick in the ground and watered it once a day for two weeks we'd get a Confederate Rose bush.

I decided to play along thinking there would be some great future laughs concerning how I was tricked into planting a dead looking stick.

the friend was not playing a joke. now I get to enjoy taking cuttings from this bush and telling other friends how if you plant this dead looking stick in the ground you'll get a Confederate Rose bush.

been kind of neat watching this bush being propagated into the yards of friends.

[Cheryl Isaak]

That is neat. I did a quick google and it isn't nearly hardy enough. Would it make a house plant?

C

[Cheryl Isaak]

Snicker! I wasn't even going to go there. I plenty of New Englanders that have headed south, but the few southerners that came north couldn't handle the weather.

C

[Jim]

yea, Confederates don't do well up north, just look what happened to them at Gettysburg.

I don't know the answer to that.

[Jim]

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in a different life when I was traveling for Nortel I made many trips to Canada in January and February. it was during those trips I discovered how we in NC should not use the word 'cold' as a descriptor for describing the weather conditions here in NC. it simply does not get cold in NC.

[JimR]

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Two winters at Fort Churchill made getting back to southern Ontario seem springlike -- but I don't think roses would have grown in the winter --

[Jim]

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Ottawa was the usual destination because the BNR labs for the products I was associated with were located there. I tried to get a summer time trip but never managed it. Buffalo NY was another place where the word 'cold' was applicable.

[Persephone]

Hah! Takes me back...

I remember tenting at minus 25 (at which point, ISTR, Celsius and Fahrenheit converge?), during a 10-day mushing trip on the Great Slave Lake. Ah...them were the days..

Persephone

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[Cheryl Isaak]

As I write, it is 6:36 AM and it 28 degrees. And still dark.

Cheryl Southern NH

[rachael simpson]

33 degrees at 7:30am and 37 degrees now at 8:16am. It's light out now, and there was a bit of light out then. First frost and the coldest night that we've had so far...weird for it be the end of October, huh?

~Rae

[enigma]

rachael simpson wrote in news: [e-mail]:

it was 24F here (24.6 actually) at 6:30am. i thought we had more "coastal" warming than you (keeping in mind i'm 30 +/- miles from the coast...).

currently, at 9:33am it's 41.2F & i'm going out to brush a llama (Sally, not to be confused with the chicken named Sally). glad it warmed up. i hate standing around in freezing weather, especially if there's a breeze. lee

[JimR]

At 6:36 AM here it also was still dark and also was 28 degrees, except my 28 degrees were C.

JimR Florida Highlands

[Cheryl Isaak]

Snip

Blowing raspberries in your direction! I needed the fleece coat this AM.

C

[readandpostrosie]

its noon here and its 66 degrees! milwaukee, wisconsin (on lake michigan)

[Ryan P.]

Hah! I beat you! Its 68 here on the northwest side of Milwaukee. :)

[Jim]

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34F was the morning low here. we got our first frost this morning YeeHaw!!!

Jim central NC

[Janet Baraclough]

The message from Jim contains these words:

We had our first night-frost on 24th september, but haven't had one since.

Janet (west Scotland)

[willshak]

on 10/30/2007 6:37 AM Cheryl Isaak said the following:

6:15 PM 55º F. The low today was 38º¨ F

[Phisherman]

This morning it was 34. Now it is 68. First fall day to use the house furnace. No frost yet, mosquitoes are actively feeding! east TN

[Hettie®]

That "rose" has palmate leaves which I have never seen on a rose before. Usually they are compound. The blooms and buds sure look like roses.

Does anyone know its botanical name or another common name for it? I doubt it would be cold hardy in my zone. I would like to see if there is anything like it on helpmefind.com.

The only other rose I saw with very unusual leaves was what some thought might be an alba; instead of the usual five of 7 leaflets on one stem, it had several more pairs than that.

I have just learned that roses may root from "sticks" if you put them in the ground when they are dormant. So when you say "stick", I assume that there are no leaves and that it was dormant when you put it in the ground. It must root easily; sometimes it helps to use rooting powder, but I guess them thar Confederate roses root like Forsythia.