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The only climber that I grow is Quicksilver, a healthy, bloomy lavender with a nice fragrance
3 years old
Thank you, RoseCanadian!!
Diane, your Prince is stunning. I had it on my Garden Rose LLC order too as well as WS2000 same as Kitty. The Black Baccara is gorgeous. So velvety.
I wonder what the 2024 new varieties will be for all the rose hybridizers. Very curious about the new DA’s. I’ve heard some comments that they have all the light pinks and yellows figured out, surely it will be different.
Black Baccara, yes please. I am still holding out hope that I will get The Prince from Garden Roses. I figure if everyone has cancelled then maybe I will have a good chance for one. Oh well, hope springs eternal lol
Rain rain and more rain, atlradt I am getting a break before all of the daily watering begins
Sorry if I misled anyone about my fuchsia tree, I believe they are known as uprights. There are 2 types, upright growing & trailing. I call mine a tree as it's almost 6 ft tall & the main branch is very thick.
It was in a small pot many years ago & I didn't have a good shaded area so I plomped it under my Sharifa Asma & forgot about it. One day I noticed blossoms intertwined with the roses so it was a happy accidental "planting" as it was never removed from its plastic nursery pot. It eventually broke.
Rosecanadian, aka, Carol, lives in Calgary in zone 3-4 and overwinters her many roses in a heated garage. They are all potted and her husband wheels them out to join the rest of the plants in her garden when it's warm enough. They are outside until the fall at this point. You should join us on the spring seasonal thread which she hosts, and her posts are all over the forum.Good luck with your new rose. We're all plant addicts here. Diane
Not sure if I've ever seen a rose rated to zone 3. Maybe some explorer series or Kordes. Doubt any DA are rated that low. Seems like a climate more suited to conifers,
@charles: yes, I have a lot of conifers in my garden! But also many shrubs and perennials. I know there’s a good chance I will lose the DA, but I have a great snow cover so we'll see! :)
@rosaprimula: I laughed at your comment "it's never just one". How true! 😆
@Diane: thank you! I don’t have many roses in my garden but I like to look at the pics posted in the GW rose forums!
I find it unfortunate that they sent you a perfectly good plant and you don't even want to plant it, don't want to give it a chance to grow. Bummer. Cane thickness is not uniform across all varieties. I would give it a chance if I were you.
Forever, if you go with the Lilly Miller be sure to get the one for acid loving plants (like azaleas). But you should have your soil tested if you really want to know how alkaline it might be. Places with lots of rain and lots of naturally growing trees and green have acid soil. We have brown hills and sagebrush. Lilly Miller is available on Amazon, I believe. I get mine at a local garden center. I don't think nitrogen will help. And maybe Evelyn has gotten too much fertilizer. Didn't you just move her? If she has gotten Holly Tone, that's enough. Diane
@Nollie in Spain Zone9, thanks again so much for the explanation. I think the soil test is the only way to take the doubt out and be certain. A test kit is way to go 🌹
@oursteelers 8B PNW, thanks so much for this information. I feel a bit relieved now. let’s see how it will turn in a couple weeks
Diane can you tell me where you saw $25 + $5?
I don't see it on their website.
Carla
I’ve had my Scentous for several years now and I’m very fond of it indeed! It’s just beginning to bloom this spring, big fluffy ruffly pink blooms! Unfortunately, the thrips haven’t completely left it alone.
Hi Diane
HD started a premiere "My Bouquet" series this spring.
Check out this discussion on Houzz - https://www.houzz.com/discussions/6420333/omg-home-depot
I thought I bought two scentuous body bags but they were mislabeled. now have to replace them.
Diane, do you have an Instagram? Helen is posting on hers. She has the loveliest rose photos on Instagram.
I’m envious of your Bolero forever_a_newbie, it’s not available in Europe, sadly. It’s a mystery why several roses bred over my way are only released over your way.
I hope you wear gloves when handling Harlow Carr, rosecanadian, it’s a thorny little beast under those delicate blooms!
Not long now for Mme. de Sévigné (MdS for short). I bought it after seeing it praised on this forum but can’t remember who grew it.
My favourite rose changes all the time, but Munstead Wood is pushing for the top spot:
The Prince has a gangly growth habit which I fail to tame and rarely has perfect blooms, but who couldn’t love him?
I just wanted to mention that Home Depot shipped Distant Drums fast and furious.
I also know a lot of people who had fig trees shipped from Home Depot at a good price with free shipping, that were lovely trees.
One wouldn't think buying plants online from Home Depot is a good idea but they seem to be quality plants!!
And, unlike other sellers, you can return them to the store if you don't like them!
Carla in Sac
Here's a photo from its early years, so you can get a sense of the height of the porch. It was probably only in the ground a year at this point:
Three years later, it had reached the top of the porch:
And this is a photo from two years later, the year we moved:
I never needed to restrict its growth. It seemed happy blooming about between the euphorbia and the top of the porch railing. So I basically only removed old canes that were no longer performing. As for training, I would tie the canes to the porch railing occasionally or to bamboo canes. Aside from that, I gave it some composted steer manure every other year or so, drip irrigation, maybe a splash of liquid fertilizer (e.g., fish) in the spring, but that was about it.
Here are some beauty shots just for fun:
Oh, Monarda! I am so sorry. Roses and weather…. For data collection: My 2 mature, own root Tradescants survived our MN level winter freeze this year! (Snow, freezing rain, ice, zero or near zero nightly wind chills for days.) They are budding up to bloom. Go figure. 🤷🏻♀️ The big freeze killed a variety of other plants in this area, even ones that had lived comfortably for ages . My young, own root, nursery potted Diablo Hawk is fine, too. I tucked it onto my porch and bubble wrapped it. I stuffed outdoor pillows and piles of bubble wrap all around my baby, own root Annie Laurie McDowell. I lost a bit of it but not all. Yay! Carol
Ben - Your Neptune shines there...love it! Elon is soooo photogenic!!
Ben, What a little cutie Elon is! It would be hard to say no to a game of fetch with him. I keep saying I need a new little house dog too, maybe 2 of them. We have 2 huge livestock guardian dogs. They literally love their goats more than us lol. I tried to bring our big male inside my bathroom for a fancy spa day. He literally wrecked my bathroom: tore the shower curtain down, jumped up on the sink vanity which is way smaller than him to growl at the predator in the mirror, ripped the toilet paper roll holder of the wall, and then ran to the back door and wanted to immediately get back in with his goats. From then on he gets baths in a horse trough outside lol. He's sweet as pie but hates leaving his charges 😅
Sultry - oh my goodness!!! In retrospect it's funny...but at the time!!! YIKES!!! I love how these guardian dogs know how helpless their charges are.
Your rose is beautiful, but I'm not sure it's The Prince, just a very similar rose with one of those names the Etsy sellers make up to sound similar to more familiar roses. It sounds wonderful, I've grown a grafted The Prince since about 2010 which came from Palatine, so the rootstock is multiflora. I love The Prince, which is a continuous bloomer, but I've never seen it throw those really long canes. He's about 5X5 feet. Diane.
I think you have this variety of Japanese origin.
https://www.tengbenyueji.com/shrubroses/1105.html
The text is in Chinese, but Google Translate is your friend. Buried in the text the name translates to ’Royal Palace’. Your plant looks very healthy and full!
Thank you so much for finding that Ben, super helpful! Fingers crossed it's winter hardy and not a disease magnet