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@funcountess, Such lucious colors! I never thought about them living for 50 years, you must be a loving gardener with a with a well deserved green thumb.
I remember as a child that my dad had roses. He and a neighbor were always talking roses and sharing, or so it seemed to me. They had big beautiful roses. Then he got a terrible infection from a thorn somehow, never determined, but was a rare thing and he almost his arm as a result. Doctors eventually found a treatment that worked. I have a couple of the easy-grow knockout rose bushes.
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Hi,
If you are interested a company called GARDEN &HAPPY.COM has thornless roses. A pretty one is Cinderella miniatures. Snow White flowers, it looks like my iceberg roses also thornless.
They are so easy to grow.
Funcountess
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Hi,
I guess I’ve been lucky with the long life of the roses. I don’t go near thorns if possible. Have very thick gloves that are puncture proof, and sometimes to cut a rose I take pliers and pull the long stem down to me, then cut the rose.i then put the cut rose in a box, and bring into house, and put carefully in water.
Yes, you can get a big infection from thorn puncture,that is why I’m as careful as can be. The iceberg white roses do not have thorns.
I like color in the garden, and roses give me a lot of color.
Take care,
Funcountess