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I love the Easy Elegance rose Yellow Submarine but can’t find a picture. Ping Lim now has his True Bloom Roses through Altmans and I am on the look out for the yellow True Friendship because the roses in this series seems like winners in terms of health and vigor!
Another favorite, healthy yellow is Solero from Kordes.
Oh! and one more single that has been healthy here is David Austin’s Tottering by Gently.
*I am very fond of yellows and also grow Teasing Georgia, Moonlight Romantica, Winter Sun, and Julia Child. The ones mentioned above are healthier.
This formula is for hybrid teas and tall grandifloras like Queen Elizabeth.
When a stem is ready for dead heading go down the stem to the first nice sized 5 leaflet leaf. From there go down further until the stem is at least pencil thickness. At this point use your judgment if you need to go down further to make your pruning cut, estimating how tall the new shoot will get when it blooms so that subsequent dead heading cuts until blooming season's end will achieve the maximum height you want then.
This procedure is adjusted to avoid pruning cuts which will result in the new shoot crossing another stem, or facing a direction you do not want it to face.
Moses
Is it safe to remove half a branch?
It is, as long as where you make the cut, there are at least two nice sized leaves below the cut, green and relatively healthy. One of them just at (below), the cut and a good second leaf just below that. Cutting at new, this year's growth that has already lost its foliage , growth below the middle height of the bush, and there is no good leaf there at the cut will result in weak growth emerging at the cut.
If the cut is made into last year's growth at this time of the growing season, the growth expected at the cut will languish as the bush's energy goes to the highest dormant buds on the bush.
Moses
When they're young they do that frequently, let it be. It's building itself up. In time they tame down. Right now, let it bloom. At deadheading time you can reign it in.
Sounds like a beautiful combination, those two.
Moses
Such a lovely garden and wonderful roses!
Thanks for sharing your beautiful garden with us!
Ang, it all works together so well--the roses, companions, hardscape. Your garden invites us in, and we want to stay and stay. I love the way your peonies and iris are blooming together at the same time as the roses (I've never had this happen). Highwire flyer and yellow iris--what eye popping combination that is so unique. Love it. The roses are all beautiful, but I think Silas Marner is my favorite. Thanks for showing us your very special garden. Diane
Barock is huge this year, still young rose.
Diane, i got it form Palatine. Its your type of rose for sure! Its huge even in my garden.
I'm planning to deadhead all my climbers, strategically placing them within reach. The only monster in my garden that's out of control is New Dawn. It seems to get bigger every year! But still hope to get to the top with ladder.
Good luck. I removed my last New Dawn years ago. Diane
Elena,
I am almost as excited as you are to see what you will get! I hope they are nice like what’s pictured in Grace’s own facebook, not nasty like Rose Vendor Feedback facebook.
Elena, that sounds about right. I did email GRF right after the notification and asked them to confirm that I would be receiving Ashley as a two year old potted, grafted rose, not an own root plant. Paul answered in about 30 minutes that, yes, that was what I would receive (when pigs fly, of course). Diane
PS, they're marketing new arrivals, 25 per cent discounts, etc, etc. And everything but the kitchen sink. I get new mailings every day.
In the situation where GRF has obtained exclusive rights to sell Delbard and Tantau roses in the US, Old Austin roses could potentially be a promising niche for Palantine to consider.
I think GRF might have exclusive rights to sell SOME specific Delbards and Tantaus but I don't think they have a monopoly on all varieties of these. There are other licensed sellers of Delbards as I am one and so is RU.
Rachel told on her Facebook page, that they would not have Tantau any more. Will be glad to be mistaken.
@ erasmus_gw , Could you bring us more Tantau, pleeese?
Thank you, I did check some of the roses and didn't see even 1 review anywhere. I just think we need to be careful now.
I do trust Etsy ordering from them all the time.
There is one rose seller, I believe Japanese with Japan roses, Beautiful
Carol
I love roses after the rain!
Beautiful garden, Andrea!
We are getting cold drenching rains for the next several days, so I put umbrellas up over the roses that are about to bloom, and constructed a little temporary greenhouse over some smaller roses.
Artist-FKA-Novice Zone 7B GA
The peachy colored one is Sunbelt Savannah…gorgeous rose!
Do you think these could be scentimentals?
I do not think its scentimentals…
Ben...I just got done watching both tours and I am absolutely BLOWN AWAY by the beauty and quality of your roses. They are grown to utter and absolute perfection! This has nothing to do with your climate, because you grew them to perfection in your last garden too, which was in , I believe, Texas. Wow, wow, wow! Truly, your roses are stunning.
I love how you share your experience and knowledge with each variety. You have one of the best selections of rose varieties I've seen...I'm truly envious. There were many times when I paused the video to go and search for a particular variety. I loved all your Japanese and florist roses.
I would never get tired of watching your "strolls through your rose garden" videos. So inspiring, so beautiful....thanks so much for sharing your roses with us.
Thanks everyone for watching the videos and the sweet words. I’m very lucky to have friends that enjoy roses the same way I do!
Rosylady
Your words resonated with me. Even though we live in a more favorable climate , we still stay just as busy taking care of our plants to make them look nice.
Erasmus
I am indeed happy to move away from not only blackspot and RRD, but mosquitos, too!
Karen,
I love talking about roses, and these videos are a great outlet. I had considered just setting the roses to a music background, but I like to talk too much.
Melissa
I’ve been honing up on my video editing skills, I am using an app called InShOt which seems much more intuitive than my old app. I do enjoy learning something new, even if it is frustrating at times.
mmmm,
I like seeing the full plant in people’s garden myself! I’m glad you do that in your pics as well.
Kitty
Black Baccara seems super popular here, I wonder if it has better burn resistance than other black reds
Berrypie
It is indeed Elon’s garden too, I left enough grass so we can play fetch in both directions!
Ben, being a kitty person, it's hard to say this, but Elon has got one of the most appealing, happy faces I've ever seen on dog or cat. What a smile, and it made me smile back. Love the special car seat for Elon, and I am thoroughly amazed at how clean and perfect the white human seats are, too. Ben, I see you are growing Capri, a Tantau rose I've wanted to grow for many a year. Sir, you have connections in the rose world. I'm late to comment on your spectacular garden videos. I watched part 1 twice, and will watch again. And now what a treat to see part 2. Right off, I knew what my favorite rose is in your garden....so far. And there was Scentuous my fav at the beginning of part 2. So perfect. So gorgeous. Someday, I'll grow it, I swear. And another favorite was the stunning Madame Isaac Perriere. What a great job you did extending her canes so gracefully over the wire support. And how big she is in such a short time. She's spectacular. The Impressionist was especially beautiful, too, and one I rarely have even seen in photos. Masora's individual blooms are a work of art. In Part 1, Life of the Party stood out to me, and Moonlight in Paris. I loved Augusta Luise, and you got such lovely light colored blooms from her. She will get a lot bigger if you let her. I'm looking forward to your third installment. Will you feature Golden Zest or Bring Me Sunshine by any chance? Thanks for taking such care in bringing us a glimpse of your garden. Diane
Maybe check Lowes and HD come body bag season, Elena. Several people got Scentuous there this year. Very odd that all the online sellers are sold out.
A few from last year. Mine is just coming into bloom this year and I don’t have any good current ones.
@elenazone6, I also just wanted to give a shout-out to Menagerie. I ordered a Bolero own-root from them and the quality and packaging/shipping were excellent. The bare root I received was robust, with awesome roots, though Bolero is of course a smaller variety, so it wasn't as big as what you've pictured.
I feel like Felicia of Menagerie really knows what she's doing and runs her business very smoothly. I think there were some kinks with collection launches in the past (maybe it was too much website volume -- I can't remember), but she's addressed that. She's also curated a very nice assortment of varieties.
They are running some great deals on bare roots right now before they stop selling for the season.
Elena - what a lot of people do here to keep their roses safe during the winter is to use styrofoam that is about 3 inches thick, build a cage around all the roses in their garden, stuff the space with garbage bags filled with leaves, and then put another thick styrofoam on top. You could try something like that for a few roses and see if it works. ??
Elena - that sounds like a good idea to use soil. The thick styrofoam is what we've been using in zone 3. You're in zone 6. :) :)
@elena elena
That looks beautiful with that classic, luscious shape. It's an option, jotted down on the list, thank you!
Diane, a million thanks for recommending Bernstein rose, my new garden thrill
Ben, your mom is gorgeous and she raised a really wonderful son