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IMPORTANT: Please note that due to recent increases in USPS shipping rates, I am forced to increase my shipping fees. I hate to do this, and haven't after the past 2 rate increases, but I simply must this time. The new S/H rates will be $7.99 for the first plant and $3.50 for each additional plant. This increase will go into effect in early June, 2008. Thank you for your patience, understanding and patronage.
Real RosesThere are manufactured roses - long-stemmed and perfect,
thornless and free of both scent and greenfly.
They are predestined to live their hour in dressing rooms, in boudoirs.
They are extravagance made tangible, shielded by cellophane.
They die before they open.Real roses tumble their petals onto piano tops and carpets.
They have thorns and too many leaves and smell of summer gardens.
They come with kisses. Clara Ortega, b.1955
Return to an era when roses were luminous, lush, luxurious... opulent silken petals and intoxicating fragrances... exotic, romantic... the inspiration of artists, poets and lovers the world over. Passed down through the generations, many to be lost and rediscovered again, each a living legacy, a piece of the past, silent witness to our collective human experience. They are a link to The Before.
As wildly individual as those that grow them, there are Old Garden Roses to suit virtually every climate, every garden, every personality. Grown from cuttings and on their own roots, they are perennial heirlooms that will lend beauty and grace to our gardens for generations to come.
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