It was very annoying, the photo stayed grey for ever, so long that I thought it was some kind of failure. BTW, I switched from my preferred Chrome to Firefox and Ff works as usual, with none of the new irritating features.

..oh let me go try that out... yes my photo stayed grey a long time, and I thought something wrong with my computer. You would think this sort of thing would be speeded up, if nothing else...

well, that's weird because for me it's the same as the new system. I just tried it. How strange ...

A great rescue, Marianese! Thank you for the test post photo. I was just over on Ingrid's thread commenting on Harrison's Yellow. I don't grow a lot of yellow roses, but I really like yellow Spins. About the plowed over rose collection, was it the university's?

Marlorena, "The Laundry Room:" Ha, ha! That's equivalent with Jeri's thread posting in "Appliances." Really?! Carol

Back to Chrome again and now I find myself at home at GW once more. I'll try to post another photo, von Scharnhorst, a hybrid foetida or lutea. I got it as a small cutting and a fox thought the bone meal in the planting hole was something tasty and broke the only stem just after planting so it took long to come back. It's said to be remontant but I've not seen that yet.

Carol, the university sold off land for housing. Much needed in this expanding city but there are other areas to build on. The Genetic garden was a resource for gardening. My husband and I were lucky to experience it in its heyday and to learn basic gardening skills as beginners 24 years ago. The trial beds were educational and we learnt about the need for feeding plants and how. We learnt about composting, too. The local rose society had its own trial field, tended by volunteers. I rescued other roses when it was abandoned, Katharina Zeimet, Rosa californica Plena, Alba Meidiland, now treasures in my garden. We had little time to dig up the roses or I would have dug up more varieties.

P.S. My husband is looking over my shoulder: "How small it was then".

Mariannese, I'm so glad you and your husband rescued a number of the university's Genetic Garden roses! Housing is a top of the line basic necessity, but I sometimes wonder about the sense behind particular locations that are chosen over others. How wonderful that you grow roses from the garden where you and your husband embarked on your gardening journey. Your R. californica Plena must be a sight to behold if it's more substantial that the photo above! Growing relationships, growing roses. :-) Carol