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17 SEP 10 by
 Cass
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Patricia, if I hadn't seen a plant 8 feet tall with my own eyes, I would never have believed the descriptions of Gruss an Teplitz as the great red climber of the early decades of the 20th century. I took cuttings from that plant, and not one is any taller than 1 meter. Sadly the mother plant was hacked to knee high by "someone's cousin" who thought he knew how to prune roses. After that, the deer ate the thing to death.
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Eight feet! In retrospect - I'd badly bruise the the cousin about the knees, and then install a portable electric fence for the deer.
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#2 of 5 posted
17 SEP 10 by
Jay-Jay
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And roast the both of them slowly over a campfire; is that what You mean with this photograph?
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haha. No, just showing how easy it is to install a portable electric fence. Those white plastic fence posts just get speared into the ground with footstep pressure. Excellent for keeping kangaroos out as they are a bit lazy and would rather go under, than hop over - and then zap! I am not sure what a deer would do.
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18 SEP 10 by
Jay-Jay
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I know those fences, they are used in The Netherlands to divide meadows in two parts. Or are used to guide cattle (especially sheep) on their way to the shed or barn.
It feels rather strange for me as a Dutch person, that You have to keep Kangaroos out of your garden....... But in the last years, in Holland, several kangaroos escaped from farms and sometimes they are spotted in the wild.
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We used to grow a hedge of Gruss an Teplitz, 6 feet high in Chennai, S.India in the 1960's. I have done a number of crosses with the blooms.
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