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Hello everyone, my name is Dallas. I live in North Florida and have been searching diligently to find an Evelyn rose in honor of my one year old daughter Evelyn Jane who passed away June last year. She was born with congenital heart disease but her time spent on this earth was full of life, love, and precious memories. I thank God for giving me the priviledge to know her and love her for the time I had with her. I would be indebted to anyone willing to help me find, purchase, or receive an Evelyn Rose…. thank you deeply.
Diane, & Friends,
After showing that instagram photo of the ”VERY LARGE GRF grafted potted roses,” and her promise they would be big-I would not be concerned about their size.
Also, Grace really cares to send quality shipments/roses, I have experienced!
I received Ashley & Georgia Peach, own-root, potted last Nov 2023 delivered- blooming, very big, green lush leafed out! Most beautiful shipment of roses I ever received.
Georgia Peach, I just put in pot after arrived in a pot. Blooming on arrival!
Ashley Exclusive potted upon arrival -I put in my pot.
And I order hundreds of roses in past.
(2 Ashley Exclusive roses in one pot.) Georgia Peach Exclusive is one rose.
And I ordered Rouge Royal, Notting Hill Exclusive and Yoga Trendsetter Exclusive.
YT was a 2023 order from GRF. . Notting Hill replaced order of one couldn’t be delivered.-these 2 are delayed to this spring. Rouge R I ordered last winter to deliver this doring. . They sent me a coupon to give me a $100 bouquet for delaying my order to this spring 2024.. I used coupon for a free-Constance bouquet was soectacular-most beautiful I have ever seen!
Thank you Grace R Farm!!!!
Free Gift Coupon for Constance Bouquet, I selected.
I am excited to eventually receive my 3 roses coming! Wonder what they will be like! Expecting quality! She is great!
I just received 5 happy roses. They were moist and only one branch was broken.
GRF mentioned “issues on growers end… delayed harvest.” This past winter we had an US warm winter, but then a cold snap across the nation-freezing temps for an unexoected week effecting many farmers crops! My roses had done well in the warm winter, but that whole week of surprise deep freezes set my roses back-loosing many black canes & new growth singed. I lost a rose to the freeze, also. I suspect that this week set back many rose growers.
Farming and selling roses is not a perfect science/business. Adjustments are sometimes necessary. Who knows with our climate and weather changes! Pretty amazing to plan around these challenges!
Fighting Temeraire..7 inch fun flirty single to semi-double blossoms! They glow. Reminds me of a Mutabilis on steroids but prettier! Mine is still a baby but she will be stunning next year! I just know it lol.
Abe Darby
More Summer Romance
Bathsheba
Snoozing on the deck in the morning light lol
I bought 2 Earth Angels because I love the online pictures. But i barely get any bloom, i only keep one and gave the other one away. They are planted in full sun. i finally tucked it in a corner, if it blooms then it’s great.
So both of them just bloomed again and I'm thrilled to report they have kept their sport color, while still smelling like Pretty in Pink Eden!
They look a lot like Eden but Eden doesn't smell.
I've been having a bug problem so they're kind of chewed but they are not dark pink!
:)
Carla
Peach Drifts could be an option
Artist, I have been watching the responses to your query with interest. A healthy, compact, free-flowering romantic bubblegum pink rose would be a great thing to have. But also thinking I don’t really have anything that fits.
If you were ever to be persuaded by an Austin, then Harlow Carr would be my closest. It’s certainly healthy, compact and flowers freely all over, but maybe not quite saturated enough, colour-wise? The blooms do annoyingly nod, but I’ve got used to that over the years and at least they look good upside down too!
Now that I have seen the space I vote for your Easy Does It. Warm sunset is what is needed there. I thought about why my Easy Livin' is so popular among garden guests. It is because everyone has pink, white and red roses. When they see the sunset colors of Easy Livin' they choose it because they haven't seen a rose like that before.
I'm thinking that the Easy Does It will have the same type of appeal. Also I just love it in that space.
For me, the resistance to BS is very important and all of these below were vetted for that first. However, even with disease resistant varieties, I still spray once or twice in the spring and it helps quite a bit for the rest of the season. Otherwise, they defoliate too much. Later I stop spraying.
Easy Does It (workhorse)
Olivia Rose Austin (delicate and elegant)
Plum Perfect (sturdy and great color but not crazt about the overgrown bush with blooms only at the top)
Beverly (almost 30 buds now on a still small bush)
Savannah (elegant)
Lady of Shallot (beautiful, warm color)
Ring of Fire (amazing, classic-looking bloom)
Climbing Pinkie (the spring show is so romantic)
I have never killed a snowball viburnum, but I consider it to be a Moby Dick. I've grown snowballs all my adult life. Diane
2023 Big old Snowball Moby. It's even bigger this year.
Artist, I think you should go with your gut, which is telling you "better safe than sorry." As someone who has only experience RRD once, I can't claim to be close to an expert. But the photos you posted seem to show bizarre, distorted, uncharacteristic growth for a drift rose, including red, strap-shaped leaves and fleshy sepals or leaves around the buds. Plus you have the characteristic witch's broom growth. You have multiple symptoms pointing to potential RRD.
I can find these sorts of decisions agonizing, but I have a feeling you'll feel better if you remove the affected plants. If The Fairy is close enough that its roots or leaves might be touching/intertwined with the affected drift roses, I'd remove it, as well. Make sure to remove all roots.
I can't speak to miticides or other methods to prevent spread.
Edited to add: If you have a local rose society or botanical garden, you could try sending them photos to see what they think. My nearby botanical garden invites gardening questions and has been remarkably friendly/helpful.
IMO, this is like RRD and not herbicide damage and would carefully remove and bag the affected roses. I’m sorry, Artist - I dealt with this from time to time in my last garden and is frustrating.
I bought two of them based on Ben's video, looking forward to their first flush
Both planted in the ground received this earlier this year.
Mine has been leafing out but no buds yet! So exciting so many of us took the plunge on this one this year. I hope I don't kick myself for only ordering one!
Because of the input I’ve received, I do not intend to delete this thread. Sorry, Kitty. Although at present I do not believe Garden Roses LLC is a safe company to deal with and I cannot recommend them to anyone, neither do I feel duty bound to campaign against them.
If I may, I would like to recommend a little story that helps me keep my equilibrium in cases like this. You can find the story in print, I believe, or you can find it easily online: “The Woodcutters Wisdom”, by Max Lucado.
Based on the emails Garden Roses LLC sent out today, I have put a post out on Rose Geeks. I really wanted the best for Garden Roses LLC.....
I am glad to see current issues being discussed and not just exclaiming over photos of pretty blooms. There are some disturbing things happening in the nursery trade that we all need to be aware of and this is a great place to discuss it. It won’t all be pretty and we won’t all agree. That’s ok. We need to discuss it anyway. I’m NOT an advocate for the ostrich syndrome. Neither am I known in person as a gentle person who is too sensitive to discuss controversial issues as Bart Bart took me to be earlier on another thread. ( though I’m not offended by the analysis in the least.) So to that degree, I agree with Susan. But I still maintain that there has been a lot of turning on each other, bordering on slander, that has been happening as we discuss these controversial issues. THAT is the part that disturbs me. I do wish we could eliminate that factor. We CAN discuss these things without tearing each other apart.
I guess what I’m trying to say is this: attack the problem, not the people.
One of the reasons I have stuck around this forum was the over all maturity of folks. They could agree to disagree even if they felt very strongly about something. I think that is a very rare quality on forums and social media nowdays. Things have went a little South since the Pandemic, I think. We should allow people to voice their opinions and questions without judging.
We are all rose lovers and on the same vine!(cane what have you..lol)
I am by no means sticking up for bad business practices, patent/$ stealing/shady importing, etc.
It is what it is and I will say it, like it is-whether a business is good or bad. I am not gonna dwell on it though because everyone can make their own decisions on how to deal with information once they have it.
*Back to the non-depressing stuff*
I don’t think it looks like it’s dying. Personally, I wouldn’t give it any more fertilizer just now. Just keep it moist and give it good sunshine and I think you’ll soon see new growth. It’s probably working at putting on root growth.