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Cliff
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Hi Cliff! Just found your garden. The high desert one was so impressive! This low desert one ain't too bad either! What happened with all the roses you had at your old nursery? I am just hoping they are somewhere in a garden or a collection or something. The amount of roses that you had is amazing!
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yesterday by
Cliff
When the decision was made to close the nursery and dig up most of the thousands of roses in the garden, we then spent well over a year sending out to our mailing list constantly updated inventories of roses available to be dug up, bare rooted, packed and shipped. Many of these were large plants and my overriding objective was to ensure that as many of these roses as possible found good homes in gardens across the country. This required employing a crew full time for what proved to be very time and labor intensive work. We charged actual shipping costs and an amount of each rose that allowed us to approach break even and pay the crew over this extended period of time. I can assure you that there was no profit built in whatsoever, but gave me the satisfaction that the great majority of this collection of mostly rare roses, which were originally imported from Europe, would continue to be grown in a wide variety of gardens.
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yesterday by
Bug_girl
Thank you for the quick reply Cliff. It makes my heart happy that they are somewhere out there! Extinct rose varieties are a huge bummer. And I hope that no one would begrudge you making a profit. You earned it.
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7 DEC by
Cliff
Available from - GcMRanch - Etsy https://www.etsy.com/shop/GcmRanch?ref=shop-header-name&listing_id=1461810101&from_page=listing
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9 SEP 22 by
Ping
Cliff, could I use this photo for my publication and site your name, please and thank you! Ping
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10 SEP 22 by
Cliff
Of course, Ping. You're most welcome to use any of my photos, and there's no need to ask in the future. Are you able to copy the photo from HMF? Unfortunately, these are very old photos and I no longer have access to the originals. I could copy them from HMF and send them to you if that's easier.
All the best,
Cliff
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This looks like a photo of some modern variety with very quartered blooms instead.
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20 JUL 22 by
Cliff
You may be right about this, Stefan. However, I'm not sure why your comment came to me.
Cliff
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