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verboten82
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Howdy from Texas!

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Post: # 15432Unread post verboten82
Sun Mar 29, 2020 1:26 pm

Howdy! I live in Texas. I grow mainly antique roses and heirloom tomatoes. I like to track down the obscure ones. I started my tomato seeds in January and have transplanted them outside now. Last year I got a late start. I look forward to swapping seeds. 8-)

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Sun Mar 29, 2020 1:33 pm

Welcome to the Junction! You've come to the right place.

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Post: # 15438Unread post worth1
Sun Mar 29, 2020 1:38 pm

Howdy back what part of Texas.
Worth
25 miles southeast of Waterloo Texas.

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Sun Mar 29, 2020 2:15 pm

Welcome to the Junction from Down Under

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Post: # 15441Unread post eyegrotom
Sun Mar 29, 2020 2:22 pm

Welcome to the Junction. If you like to swap seeds check out my offer in the Seed Swap section.

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Sun Mar 29, 2020 4:33 pm

Welcome to the Junction. I think that you will fit right in here. There are seeds a plenty traded here.
~ Patti ~

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Post: # 15464Unread post PlainJane
Sun Mar 29, 2020 6:13 pm

Hi from N. Florida!
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Sun Mar 29, 2020 8:32 pm

I hope you'll share pics of your roses :)
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Post: # 15490Unread post Texgal
Sun Mar 29, 2020 11:04 pm

Howdy and welcome!
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Mon Mar 30, 2020 7:31 am

Welcome. I'm from Canada.
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Post: # 15544Unread post verboten82
Mon Mar 30, 2020 4:07 pm

Hey everyone! *waves* I live in a rural area 1 hr west of Houston.

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Post: # 15546Unread post worth1
Mon Mar 30, 2020 4:13 pm

verboten82 wrote: Mon Mar 30, 2020 4:07 pm Hey everyone! *waves* I live in a rural area 1 hr west of Houston.
Oh yeah I know where that is. ;)
Just wanted to know so I would know the climate, Texas is a big state.
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25 miles southeast of Waterloo Texas.

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Tue Mar 31, 2020 3:05 pm

Welcome, have a seat a stay awhile!
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Post: # 17728Unread post karstopography
Sat Apr 18, 2020 9:48 pm

Howdy from a Texan not all that far from you. How are your tomatoes doing? Y’all have had more rain up west of Houston than we got to the south and more likely cold then me recently. We had 3-4 nights last week bottoming out around 50 degrees, some nearby spots around 46. How cold did it get there?
Zone 9b, located in the Columbia bottomlands, annual rainfall 46”

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Post: # 17778Unread post DMF
Sun Apr 19, 2020 2:48 pm

verboten82 wrote: Sun Mar 29, 2020 1:26 pm Howdy! I live in Texas. I grow mainly antique roses and heirloom tomatoes. I like to track down the obscure ones.
Have you found the Antique Rose Emporium in Brenham? They specialize in collecting old hardy roses.

And welcome. Where in TX are you?
Stupidity got us into this mess. Why can't it get us out?
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Post: # 22045Unread post TXTravis
Tue Jun 09, 2020 4:55 pm

verboten82 wrote: Sun Mar 29, 2020 1:26 pm Howdy! I live in Texas. I grow mainly antique roses and heirloom tomatoes. 8-)
This is kinda random for my second post here ever, but I have the most obscure rose with the best Texas story.

My grandfather worked for a guy who was friends with Lyndon Johnson. Papaw was the gardener/caretaker at the guy's ranch, and in due course got to know Ladybird Johnson and they kept in touch about flowers and such. She gave him some cuttings of the rose variety named after her in the 1970's, which were planted at the ranch and at my grandparents' house in Marble Falls. My dad and I rooted some from cuttings, and my 3 plants and my grandmother's 1 remaining plant are the only ones still in existence in the world, to my knowledge. I looked for more details about them, but could only find a 2003 article about the NEW Ladybird rose that said something like "there was a rose named after her in the 1970's but nobody could remember what it looked like." Well I DO!

I'm working on rooting more cuttings from my existing plant, and want to get this thing out there into the broader rose world just to save the piece of history. I'll keep one for you if you're interested.
A seed not planted is guaranteed not to grow.

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Post: # 22056Unread post Sue_CT
Tue Jun 09, 2020 5:57 pm

I would love one! I would love to see a photo, to seee what it looks like and what type of rose it is, too. :)

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Post: # 25381Unread post Cultivator
Mon Jul 13, 2020 5:26 pm

Howdy, fellow Texan!
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Post: # 26137Unread post Shule
Mon Jul 20, 2020 9:53 pm

Welcome to TomatoJunction! :)
Location: SW Idaho, USA
Climate: BSk
USDA hardiness zone: 6
Elevation: 2,260 feet

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