Roses

[Diane Amberg]

I can't quite tell, but if it's extra big and looks like a wasp, it's a cicada killer.  They sting cicadas to paralyze them and lay their egg on them .Then they drag them down into a pre dug hole and leave them for food for when the baby hatches. We always have a few starting about now too.They don't usually bother people unless you touch them and then they will sting.

[Wilma]

They are more than twice the size of the wasps that I see around here.  I didn't try to measure it for obvious reasons.  It didn't seem too nervous about me being there and I didn't want to force it because of it's resemblance to a wasp.

[Judy Harder]

Wilma, they are one of the good insects. I do not know name. But, if you will send this photo to Steve Fielder email is python@sktc.net Oh, tell him I sent you........LOL most likely his wife will answer you. Or you could call him, he is in book.
He will know and be glad to tell you.
Won't hurt you. Unless you want to man-handle it, then it might protect itself.......Just a thought.
the Sunflowers just made me grin out loud.............and look at which way they are facing.......towards the light......and keep track today, bet they do keep track of where the sun is.
I love to see a field of the flowers just basking in the sun........I love sun too....but must admit, I am ready for some cloudy days and rainy nights......at least a weeks worth........then summer can come back. Not the 100+ we have now.

[Wilma]

I might do that.  Mr. Fielder is one of the people that I have come to respect.  His true interests seem to be the interests of his neighbors everywhere.

[Wilma]

I resurrected this thread because I couldn't remember just when I started my rose garden.  I see that it was Spring of 2010, three years ago.

The roses are looking really good right now, some of them loaded with buds.  The new one I added last year, Apricot Candy, is beginning to open.  I also added some Knock Out type roses to fill in some space.  I had intended to add some more of those this Spring, but am having second thoughts as the volunteer sunflowers from the ones that I planted three years ago, is pretty much filling up the space.

I have re-read this whole thread and still find it very interesting.  Lots of good information in it.  Wish I had followed all of it.

[Warph]

Gertrude Stein's Letter-Head

"A Rose Is A Rose Is A Rose Is A Rose..."

The meaning most often attributed to this is the notion that when all is said and done, a thing is what it is. This is in similar vein to Shakespeare's 'a rose by any other name would smell as sweet'. However, that's not the interpretation given by the author of the phrase.

The line is from Gertrude Stein's poem Sacred Emily, written in 1913 and published in 1922, in Geography and Plays. The verbatim line is actually, 'Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose':

"Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose
Loveliness extreme.
Extra gaiters,
Loveliness extreme.
Sweetest ice-cream.
Pages ages page ages page ages."

(Gertrude Stein's full poem of "Sacred Emily":
http://www.lettersofnote.com/p/sacred-emily-by-gertrude-stein.html )

When asked what she meant by the line, Stein said that in the time of Homer, or of Chaucer, "the poet could use the name of the thing and the thing was really there." As memory took it over, the thing lost its identity, and she was trying to recover that - "I think in that line the rose is red for the first time in English poetry for a hundred years."

Stein was certainly fond of the line and used variants of it in several of her works:
- Do we suppose that all she knows is that a rose is a rose is a rose is a rose. (Operas and Plays)

- ... she would carve on the tree Rose is a Rose is a Rose is a Rose is a Rose until it went all the way around. (The World is Round)

- A rose tree may be a rose tree may be a rosy rose tree if watered. (Alphabets and Birthdays)

- Indeed a rose is a rose makes a pretty plate

[Judy Harder]

Wilma, I am always ready to talk flowers. Love going through green houses seeing what might grow
here. I even love ready other peoples progress or failures........trying to keep my brain active with facts that
are fun, (for me) and   when I cross the river for the promise land, I will find me the prettiest and most prolific
garden to spend my days in. 

[Wilma]

Reserve a spot for me right beside you.  I can't think of anything lovelier than flowers.

[Warph]

[Wilma]

No, Frank isn't lovelier than flowers.  A close second, though.