If you talk to your roses we’re on the same wavelength.  Because I talk to my roses every day.  As I walk up and down the rose beds I have an encouraging word for each one.  Sometimes it’s a word of admiration – at other times a nod of recognition.  Then I go in and deadhead any spent roses making appropriate comments all the while. Ok so you think I’m nuts!  It doesn’t really matter as long as we all remember that roses are living things.  They may not have blood running through their veins but they do have veins and they do have green sap running through them. Roses…