February 2009 Entries
"Thank You" for your very generous package that you sent for the Marines of 3d Marine Aircraft Wing (Forward). It was like Christmas came early for the Marines.
Your box arrived after a 5-day dry spell of no mail. Apparently our mail was being re-routed to another location. Once the "glitch" was fixed, we received your box. It is amazing how mail lifts everyone's spirits. I had one Marine in the section who does not get a lot of mail open the box. It was very nice to see him smile from ear to ear as he opened it. Please know...
There are 422 rose bushes in our three rose gardens—180 in the two Lakeside gardens and 242 in the Fairway gardens. It is understandable, that with so many plants to care for, the Landscape/Rose Committee has been expanded to 19 members.
The rose year starts with pruning in January. The heavy pruning is done by Susan's crew, followed up by committee members who do the finish pruning—shaping the plant and removing all leaves and looking for suckers. Suckers are canes which spring from their rootstock, rather than from the bud union.They will not bloom true and their foliage is usually rather...