Free Range Librarian

(Update: minor style tweaks. I guess I can’t get my own blog right…)
I had just finished taking the picture below of “Harm Saville,” a fragrant, dusky red miniature rose named in honor of grower and breeder Harm Saville (the bud is as big as the tip of my index finger), when a friend pointed me [...]

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Cats always have to be the star of the show!

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I’m chilling out, post-LSTA. (Almost. Last night I dreamed I had left out a crucial section of the grant, where I should have described how we bus children around Albuquerque, with a continuation plan for supporting this deliverable after the grant period. The grant I submitted supports a Web site–no driving, no cars, and in [...]

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Thanks to the Rose Database, I am fairly sure this isn’t William Shakespeare (although it comes very close). This plant has medium-large fully-double, damask-scented blooms in eye-popping dark pink on a small plant with foliage not much larger than a Susan B. coin. I’d say the blooms are big for the plant, which [...]

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Enquiring minds wanted more information about the sneaky stranger in my garden. It’s larger than a paperback book, smaller than the OED.
Note: this was an inherited plant. It comes from a garden where a former owner had spent some nice money on good roses. The current owner, a friend, brought over [...]

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