Paula, that is great you got the word out there. The photos don't seem to be labeled correctly. Next time you'll have to do that too.

Congrats!

Sheila, I noticed that about the photos. The ones I sent him were not very good - cell phone quality. And that looks more like an Austin than a 'Rosette Delizy'. But if it gets someone to take a look at old tea roses, it will have done its job.

Melissa, I enjoy writing when I can do what I want when I want with no pressure, but I freeze up with a due date. When I wrote the article about Mendocino Rose's garden for the American Rose, I had writer's block for almost a year. The person writing the article was the better writer by far.

Kitty, thank you!

Congratulations, Paula! Keep up the push!

Wonderful, Paula!! Thank you for speaking for the OGRs. You are a true (published) Lorax! Carol

Congrats, Paula! Sadly, both of the roses in the article are misidentified. Oh well.

Congratulations! Thanks for sharing!

Well done!

Virginia

It is a real pity about the misidentified roses. But I'm not going to allow a thing like that get in the way of my enjoyment.

Congratulations! It's nice how the article educates, too--explaining simply the difference between HTs (probably the only roses many folks know) & the teas.

Maybe more people will look into the ogrs that do so well out there :-D

Well done, you're spreading the word and showing your love and enthusiasm for the heirloom tea roses.

I actually did not realize it was going to be a newspaper article. The author has a garden blog, and I was responding to a blog posting that said that people weren't growing roses as much because of the need to spray and the high requirement for water in a drought stricken area. I replied telling him that this was true for most hybrid teas, the class of roses most popularly grown, but not so true for the earlier teas that once dotted so many California gardens.

The web version can be edited to reflect the proper identification, and should be. You can likely e-mail the author and gently point out the oversights; I'm sure they will make the correction straightaway (a correction should appear in an upcoming print version as well). Wonderful to see you reaching and educating the public all the same...and I must say that bringing more beauty to the world is gardening's greatest reward, to my mind!

I think Paula supplied different pictures, and doesn't have an ID on the pictures they printed instead of hers. She would need to send pictures of RdL & MT again to connect with the roses she was quoted about. They messed it up, but she got her point across.