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Beautiful! But I need someone to tell me the names of the roses as they are being shown. :-)
Is that Olivia next to PP?
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
First bloom of Golden Opportunity from HCR
Flower is huge. Color is a bit softer than golden. I love the color but a bit worried it might fade in hot weather. I could not detect any scent.
There are a few black spotted leaves at the bottom. Overall I am happy with it, as long as it will climb.
@mmmm12COzone5, thanks! Wow you still have cold nights as 35F! So your rose season will start in June 🌹
Today I am happy to see buds on Twilight Zone and Pop Art. But I mostly am thrilled at the growth. TW when I just got it, was very weak and made me worried. Now not only it gets full but almost catches up with the Ebb Tide I bought from Heirloom and planted last fall
The yellow roses at the back are from Julia Child.
@Feiy (PNWZ8b/9a), the color of Rhapsody in Blue is so pretty! I am surprised that you would have late bloom in your zone. This is an abnormal year, or Seattle is always like this? The Dr Robert Korns you gave me last year has become my favorite. I love its dainty flowers and musk fragrance. It lightens up the shady corner
Moonlight romantica with its big cupcake like fragrant blooms,
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.
South Africa is a great performer in my garden, too. The biggest negative is that the Japanese Beetles like it as much as I do.
treebarb, I have a couple tomatoes I can bring. Hungarian heart and the lovely named Monkey Ass. Would one of those work for you? They're still under the grow lights but I was planning on starting hardening off soon.
I will have a bunch of tomato plants including the 2 barb is looking for.
Jerry
These seedlings have been hardened off - it's been a bit cold
Feverfew
Fire Spinner Ice plant
Liatris
Pasque Flower
Red Bee Balm
Shorter purple Aster
Wooly Thyme - some look a bit sparse, but will fill in for sure
The tomatoes have NOT been hardened off, they are still under lights. Most of the plants will be 2 of the same variety in the same cup. Two for the swap of one.
Tomatoes
Cherokee Purple purple 12-16
Dana’s Dusky Rose dk. Pink 4-8
Marizol Bratka pink 8-12
Olive Hill pink 12-18
Owen’s Purple purple 6-8
Primorski Pacug red 12-20
Purple Dog Creek pink 12-16
Rosedale dk. Pink 6-10
Stump of the World dk. Pink 12-16
Thessaloniki red 4-6
Tomatillo green
IF I bring peppers, they are very small. Not sure how they will produce this year.
Mons TIllier
Rose Delizy
White Banks
Pink Gruss
Bassoues Tea
Some of the Tea and Species roses at The Huntington
Ben, this is such a delightful post. I love the photo of you and Tom Carruth. I hope some day you let him know he has a huge fan in Idaho. And I hope he's saved a small space in the orange bed for Orange Dude. Tom has done a fabulous job at the Huntington in his 10 years there. Your first photo was stunning, and I loved the half and half standard. I hope there are many more visits to the Huntington in your future, and that you take lots of photos for us. Diane
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Diane,
I must tell you that we were having dinner at a yummy Thai restaurant when outta the blue Tom asked, ’who is Diane from the rose forum?’. We discussed your giant Julia Child, and wonderful purple roses Ebb Tide, Twilight Zone , Wild Blue Yonder that are all his ’kids’. So he definitely does know what a wonderful job you have done with growing them (and he mentioned you over Thai food, lol!).
Feiy
Thank you, I love to know the stories behind individual varieties, too.
Sylvia
Lucky you to stroll the Huntington for a whole week. I was thinking I need at least a week full time to see it all. They have a plant sale at end of April, I heard some special roses are available then.
I grew Double Knockouts at my old house....They bloomed and performed well!
When I moved in 2021 I decided to try OSO Easy Double Red instead... And I like its flowers better than D. Ko
Roses in massive clusters!
My fancy Frenchmen, Thierry and Henri strutting their stuff after the rain
These British gals, Juliet and Beatrice are not to be outdone.
The Dutch is extra fancy, All 4 Cherry Blossoms
The Italian enttry, Lila Vidri
Finally, some ‘Merikun dudes, Neil and Ebb Tide.
In all cases the rain weighed down the clusters and I used my hand to support them to take the pics.
The bed I planted a few weeks back is doing okay. Peas and radishes look good, sort of spotty germination of a couple different types of bok choy and turnips, A small bed of beets also has spotty germination but I sowed them sort of thick so should be okay.
I moved all 3 cold frames to new locations. One has tomatoes, another cucumbers and the other a variety of melons. So far so good. It's a big jump on getting warm season plants in the ground. In one of the newer areas I transplanted in a few types of kale, thyme and rhubarb I started from seed.
Lots of volunteer lettuce, radish and red orach all over the place.
A small bed I reclaimed from dutch clover recently and planted carrots has lots of things germinating (clover?) but no carrots seen yet. I may change direction of that small area and transplant something in then find a new area for carrots.
Lots of stuff under the grow lights yet. Unfortunately I had the tomatoes too close to the high intensity bulbs. They almost died before I realized my mistake. Recovery looks ok however I might get some new starts if recovery doesn't veer towards looking good.
Season has not started for me yet. dealing with nightly freezes still
Lots of green coming out from under the plastic film.
Ryan, I also love Burst of Joy... it's a spectacular rose for me too :-D
Mmmm, that's so great that you were able to give your Above All to someone!
Carla, I like Easy Does It ever so much. I used to grow Abbaye de Cluny way back in the day, but gave it away during one of my rose culls, which I probably shouldn't have done, since I really like the Meilland Romanticas.
Susan, I've grown Abbaye de Cluny for about 18 years, and think it's a wonderful rose. It's coloring is a lot like Just Joey's, as I'm sure you know. The blooms are huge and continuous. I like the Meilland Romanticas, too, especially Rouge Royale. Can't you find anyone selling Abbaye? I liked Easy Does It, too, but it mysteriously started declining years ago, and I removed it. I've always thought I should try it again. Diane
Abbaye de Cluny
Easy Does It
Colette
Easy Does It....again. Just looking at these old pics makes me want to grow it again.
Yay Fred, the little rose that could. I think I can, I think I can
I'm happy for you that it's come such a long way. I have a few roses that still are small and kind of on the pathetic side even in year 3 or 4 but I'm still going to give them more time. Being off the forum for several months really brought my desire to buy, buy, buy more roses back into a more balanced place. I chose what I've bought for a reason, and I knowingly bought them as babies. They need time! The constant desire to buy more of them made me less patient with the slower ones than I'd normally be.
WOW!!! what a great transformation
Your garden is gorgeous! Wonderful job on the design.
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!
I actually have quite a few! I'm so excited.
New to the USA, and only on the East Coast, yet, LIDL is another Aldi's of sorts. The nearest one to me is in Hagerstown, Maryland. That's 174 miles south/east of me here in Pittsburgh, PA. LIDL is a German company, like Aldi's.
Thus, LIDL is pretty much established in New Jersey where Rifis gardens.
That is a tremendous bargain IF the varieties in the six packs are clearly marked, and all the cuttings in a cell are the same variety. I imagine the grower, Canadian, as Rifis so indicated propagated choice mini varieties.
Minis were the rage in the 1980s to about 2000. Just minis in a rose bed are quite a sight, especially if the bed dedicated to them is elevated about 2 feet from where one stands to observe them. At that point, specifically applicable to a zone 5/6, Pgh. PA, where the mini bushes don't get as tall by season's end as they would in the West or South, you get to see exquisite blooms up very close.
The downfall of minis is that with their foliage being so close to the ground, air circulation becomes an issue, making controlling black spot, powdery mildew, cercospora, etc...and the dreaded spider mite extremely difficult without using conventional spraying. I wish you success using organic means of control of the above, because you will be the first rosarian who has been successful that I know of so disposed.
Nowadays, all the abundant mini rose nurseries who operated thriving mail order establishments are just about gone. So if you grow roses where summers are hot, rainy, and humid, minis may give you lots more headaches than you want.
That said, the mini Irresistible is a fantastic rose, just fantastic. It is strictly columnar in growth habit which is rare for a mini. What makes it a mini is its small flower in balance with its small foliage. Irresistible can easily get 3+ feet tall here in Pittsburgh. It possesses the most beautiful pure white, heavy petaled cluster blooming rose, with a strong, strong straight neck. No fragrance, though, and it is a bad black spotter here. Spider mites, too, present problems.
Irresistible is still an excellent mini which I don't grow anymore because of its black spot magnetism. Oh yes, almost forgot, the blooms are cast iron, lasting a very long time before petal drop.
Moses
Full plant of Rise up Lilac Days.
Pergola is over 9 feet
Leslie and I can bring a table.