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Posted by Cheryl Isaak on October 29, 2007, 9:35 am
If you were Registered and logged in, you could reply and use other advanced thread options On 10/29/07 9:46 AM, in article 4725E447.20023C64@bellsouth.net, "Jim"
> Cheryl Isaak wrote:
>
>> Jim wrote:
>>
>>> http://personalpages.bellsouth.net/t/h/theplanter/Confederate-Rose.html
>>>
>>> about 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.
>>>
>>> http://personalpages.bellsouth.net/t/h/theplanter/Confederate-Rose.html
>>>
>>> well, 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.
>>
>> That is neat. I did a quick google and it isn't nearly hardy enough.
>
> yea, Confederates don't do well up north, just look what
> happened to them at Gettysburg.
>
> <g>
>
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
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