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Old 07-12-2012, 09:49 AM   #4
BigV
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Originally Posted by SPUCK View Post
Mine too!

My Mom grows those and besides the spectacular look they smell great, unlike most striking roses which trade the smell for looks.
commercially, that's a stone cold fact. tragic, really, since there are some very pretty roses at the stores. But for my roses, they all smell nice, some are really really potent, and I sometimes get perfectly pretty blossoms like this. But mostly, my roses' scent is more reliably wonderful than the visual perfection of the blossoms.
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