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Margaret Antle's Just Roses really most special imaginable

"These are not 'Just Roses," They are a young man's special gift to his mother. They are in my mind, the most 'Special Roses' I have ever seen or photographed," -SHAMARIE CLAIBORNE
And on reading the remarkable story Shamarie relates below, you may find yourself totally in agreement. -EW

By Shamarie Claiborne

Recently, ColumbiaMagazine. com received a note from Jim and Ann Goff, in connection to my picture of Margaret Antle's Roses titled "Just Roses". I thought the comment might be a bit personal, so I read it to Margaret and asked if it would be okay to post it.

She quickly agreed and started to explain the day the Goff's were referring to in their note. As the story unfolded I began to have goose bumps myself and by the end I knew those roses were not "just roses" but a special gift from a son to his beloved mother.

To ColumbiaMagazine.com:
Thanks for putting Margaret's roses on the ColumbiaMagazine.com. They are beautiful. It brought back a lot of memories for us. Margaret was going through a very trying time in her life at that time when she started her rose garden. I don't know if she told you the story about one of the roses when she first started putting them out, but it was about her son that she had lost in an accident. It still makes goose pimples come upon me when I think about it, but it blessed us so much when she told us about it, and she had also got a blessing from it.
Thanks again,
s/Jim & Ann Goff
Come to find out, Margarets Rose Garden was created using the roses her son Mike had planted at his home before his passing.

After his accident Margaret transplanted the roses from his home to hers. Margaret told me Mike had loved roses so she wanted to save them.

After transplanting them and creating her new rose garden, a family member said they will bloom for you on Mothers Day, I just know it."

When Mikes next birthday came around Margaret of course was having a very tough day as she left in the morning to go visit Mikes grave, one of the rose bushes had bloomed overnight. By the way, there had been none the day before.

She told the plant it was not supposed to bloom until Mothers Day. As the day passed and she traveled back and forth visiting Mike, each time she left there were more blooms on the rose bush.

By the end of the day there were 34 blooms on that rose bush and it just happened to be Mikes 34th birthday.

Her husband told her she must have miscounted and went to count for himself. Sure as the world, there were 34 roses on that little rose bush, one for each of Mikes birthdays.

So, as you now know these are not Just Roses."

They are a young mans special gift to his mother. They are in my mind, the most Special Roses I have ever seen or photographed.

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Margaret Antle's garden has much more than Just Roses



2009-06-04 - Christine, KY - Photo by Shamarie Claiborne.
When Shamarie Claiborne took this picture of Margaret Antle's roses and asked Mrs. Antle about them, the rose gardener told her that her garden had 'just roses." But a reader remembered, on seeing the lovingly cared for roses in the photo above, that Margaret Antle's have a very, very special meaning in her life, as the accompanying story reveals.
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Sunrise Rose: One of memorials to Skip Haupt



2009-06-07 - Greenbriar RD, Columbia, KY - Photo by Kay Haupt.
WHEN SKIP HAUPT first cast his eyes on the Greenbriar Ridge he and wife Kay settled on, he knew he was home for good, Mrs. Haupt says. "He got out of the realtor's car and said, 'This is it,'" she remembers. He said, when I leave here, they will have to carry me out. And the Pennsylvania native was true to his word. The Haupts years together on Greenbriar were the happiest of both their lives, Kay Haupt says. Today, she keeps his memory alive in many ways, including memorial roses, like this sunrise rose. Roses seem to commune with people in special ways, from the sound of a baby crying it gives, when amplified, when one of its stems is clipped, to remarkable - maybe coincidental, maybe not - phenonomena which cause many to imbue them with human feelings. ColumbiaMagazine.com Group at Flickr
Clicking read more takes one to one such story of some very special roses, a legacy to a mother and now a memorial to a son, "Margaret Antle's Just Roses really most special imaginable."
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