[ConorMacNessa]

It amazing how some varieties endure through all manner of weather, season after season, and some others succumb. I started out over twenty years ago with Hybrid Tea Roses - all very highly regarded varieties. I stopped using fungicides in 1999 after my son David was diagnosed with cancer at age five, and all the Hybrid Teas died.

I followed up with Old Garden Roses and with modern David Austin Roses - I still have some of them - twenty or more years old.

I will never buy another Hybrid Tea as long as I live - give me the old roses - they stand up through all conditions!

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Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

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Wow...it is so interesting that you bring up hybrid roses. Just this past Sunday, the guitarist in my band was wondering if the prohibition in Exodus about “mixing different species of plants” had anything to do with hybrids or GMO foods.

It was an interesting discussion, but no consensus was met. Anyhow, just kind of weird that you brought it up! :-)