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Kristine,
Yes, I’m thinking about staking the dinnerplates. Guess I’ll buy a few sticks, Lol!
Did you watch the video? Her dahlias are soooo gorgeous, makes me want a whole garden of dahlias! How are your dahlias now? I love P. Watermelon, too! They are all beauties! Have they sprouted?
Carol, I keep wondering if you could grow dahlias? Only if you grew them w/ grow lights in basement for a while, then short hotter summer they couod be outside. They love sun!
My dahlias go outside to grow when temps are consistently 60F-72F, best growing temps. They are native to Southern Mexico mountains temps 60-85F. They say PNW temps are similar to South Mexico mountains so they like best PNW!
In my garden, bloom crispness and full bush are the big thing. Now I spray a fungicide every two weeks to keep the foliage on my bush's looking clean and healthy. Here are my top roses.
Munstead Wood---beautiful blooms, repeats quickly, smells great.
Molineux---Beautiful yellow blooms, tons of blooms, foliage from top to bottom.
Scepter d' Isle---Soft pink blooms in clusters, big healthy bush.
Hannah Gordan---Plenty of blooms in clusters and singles, foliage from the top to the bottom.
Lady of the Dawn---Huge bush, soft pink blooms, bee friendly.
Marchesa Boccella---beautiful pink blooms filled with petals, smells great, thick shrub like bush.
Louise Estes---Great pink blend blooms with a good scent, nice upright bush with beautiful foliage.
Ring of Fire---Lots of beautiful orange blooms with great foliage.
Hot princess---Fantastic deep pink blooms on an upright bush with shiny deep green foliage from top to bottom.
I've grown several Evelyn roses for 20 years, and they do fine as grafted roses, still going strong. So what's the problem with grafted Evelyn? I think most Austin roses do better grafted anyway. Diane
Dave,
Yes, back in winter mindset. We made pumpkin and sweet potato pies. Someone on Nextdoor once posted after one of our big spring storms, you can enjoy the snow or rail against the snow. With one approach you are happy, with the other approach you are unhappy. But the snow will be there either way.
I have PAoK. I really like her! Big fluffy cupcake blooms.
Ooh nice! I have a gift card to a local nursery and they have Gabriel Oak, Roald Dahl and The Pilgrim. I’m leaning towards getting Gabriel Oak!
Here’s my PAoK today. She thrives in partial shade. A unique rose.
My favorite that blooms all the time, smells good, disease resistant, & gets big is: Spirit of Freedom! She loves the deep south too.
She leans towards lilac pink and sometimes gets really lavender. Might not be as bright as you want but very romantic. Quick Silver and Bathsheba both bloom at the same time, every flush here for some reason so may be good companions. She also looks really good with a single white rose growing up a trellis with her..it could be a clematis, even. She would prob look good with a blue clematis as well.
Maybe a hedge of Raspberry Cupcake?
Sunny,
Oh, I love that cool pink color and the abundance of bloom. I never realized it would be so difficult to locate a bubble gum type pink that meets all the criteria (disease resistance, not HT, continuous bloom with nice form, larger and plenty of it, etc.).
This one looks like a good option.
On the other hand, I could make things simple if "things" allowed me to: I could actually go with Pink Double KO and call it a choice, because crazy as it may sound, I do love that super-cool pink color in the Southern hot landscape, or at least until it starts fading.
But I would only do that if I had proof it actually does what it promises: landscape workhorse, fast growth and covered in bloom, as some pictures show. I've seen some shrubs literally smothered by bloom.
Well, I bought one a couple of years ago, planted it at the mailbox and waited for the miracle to come,but it never did. (In the second collage above, second picture in the column at the right).
After 2+years, it stayed small, barely grew at all and it produces much less bloom than I had counted on. It also gets plenty of BS and has a pretty banal form...so it's simply not what it's cracked up to be.
So KO was out but I do love the color in its early phase, before it begins to fade.
Raspberry Cupcake looks promising, so thank you!
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.
Feiy, Thanks for sharing about your Astilbe, good to know that it really has to be my clay soil. I always consider my soil to be on the loamy side, because I don’t consider it that difficult to dig, but, it’s a lot heavier than sandy soil.
Diane, you have such a beautiful garden. I didn’t realize you live in a semi arid dessert! With those huge Julia Child roses and now so much beautiful lavender that love it there.
SJNights - Thank you for finding the Gardenia Thread!
@rosecanadian
Crimson Clover is a cover crop used as green manure in agriculture. We used to see a slope of them blooming on highway to DC in April and it was stunning
@Fire zone 8, north London, UK
A friend in our area grows wonderful California Poppy and says it is easy. I can only think of flooding as the cause of my failure.
Coneflower is very easy to grow here. I read that wet winter is a big problem for them
Seems someone at Houzz broke the styling, I see it too. It will probably be fixed soon once they realize what happened unless this was a misguided ’update’. Interestingly the usual lag I get when typing on my phone seems to be fixed though autocomplete is still borked as always.
The title of a thread just read doesn't change to a lighter shade of print, either. I don't like that at all. Diane
Oh dear, I just got on a couple of minutes ago. The Like button is annoying, but not changing a "read" thread to a lighter shade is really horrible!!!
Mine are 2-3.5 inches. The difference is from the ones that are in clusters versus singly, and more deeply cupped versus more open, possibly due to the sun. I'm hoping mine get as large as 4 inches as well!
I usually see the pink color in fall/winter blooms. In the spring, they start a blush pink in the center and open to a white and cream color. Lots of thrips right now, but they don't look too bad if I peel away the damaged petals.
Turning in to a nice rose
What a great pic!
Occasionally these 2 little ones come out to play on the lawn or our driveway. Not for long - usually I hear the doe, and then they run back to her.
Jackie
So sweet! SJN-that is SO adorable- baby deer AND baby goats!!!!!!!!!
Here's another picture of it:
I'm in zone 7. I like how the blooms have different shapes, and I like the darker reverses, and rebloom.
Since when do deer not do stairs? Mine certainly do! They've eaten Halloween pumpkins on the top of the front stoop,
Wow what a fun project! I really love the Apricot Twist X Atmore Lamarque cross. They are all nice though. The semi doubles are cute little sunny buttons!
Gorgeous new seedlings Kim! I particularly like the Hugonis seedlings and you've softened the eye while still making a distinct impact on the bloom. These are just lovely as always. Now we eagerly await to see how hardy they are in the frigid north...
Cynthia
@nippstress - zone 5 Nebraska thank you, Cynthia! Are you volunteering? hehehe Kim
My Marianne foliage today… is this something I can treat? Foliage is a bit red or orange in places. Gets a lot of sun and it’s been hot.
My Marianne in its second year.
I was going to transplant it in the ground out of its pot this year but I ran out of energy when it was nice and the weather has not been cooperating on my days off, so it's still in its pot.
It will get a new home after it's done blooming.
Carla
I bought three of them last year from Paul, and am about to see the first bloom. In pictures it's supremely beautiful. He sent some Dakota Redwing cuttings which all rooted so I have ten plants of it. Have not seen that one bloom yet. My Oshun plant , which is only a couple of years old, is loaded with great big buds. I really like his roses.
This is our adopted carpentar bee Pip Winter. We found him frozen on the ground in the snow on March 3rd, he thawed out, and we have been keeping him alive in a terrarium for over a month. We hold him, and until the flowers started blooming, have been feeding him by hand from a q-tip. We are having a hard time releasing him, but it is time to say goodbye. I’d love for him to stay nearby, and am thinking about introducing a small bee house in his terrarium, then taking him and the house outside and hoping he continues to use it. I wish more people knew how gentle carpentar bees are. We also adopted a female for about 2 weeks when we found her out and unable to fly on a cold day. The males don’t have stingers, so we have been holding Pip every day, but even though the females are very docile, we didn’t pick her up mich. Her name is Honeysuckle Spring. My kids are very good at naming bees!!
Pip has the whote square on his face, that is how you can identify males (they arw also the ones dive-bombing you- their only defense), and females have a completely black face. Our female was also a bit smaller than the male. The female also has larger mandibles. We dwcided she looked much more fierce and our male looked cuter…!
I have no idea but could you replace the drain with a stainless steel one? It should be long lasting and not corrode or be toxic. Maybe look at the thread size and order one from Amazon if you cant find a stainless steel one locally.
Oh Susan, I’d say K&M and RU jointly win the gold medal when it comes to Low Tech Roses! RU’s website, where you have to keep hitting ’older posts’ to see additional offerings should probably win some ’ least intuitive user interface’ award, too. I don’t know how many times I’ve had to explain to folks how to view all their offereings. (And this is their reveamped and ’improved’ website!) But they are my two favorite vendors for hard-to-get roses!
Ben, exactly! And when I get a RU paper catalog (a roll of the dice from year to year), it's never quite the same as the website. I remember back way before RU's website, I'd call in my order and they'd send the roses before I could send my check :-D
Susan, K&M used to do the same thing…send out the roses before collecting the money! A few years ago, Mr Mills wrote a rather apologetic letter saying that going forward, he had to collect money first, before sending out plants (imagine that!).. And I remember RUs pictureless paper catalog that would randomly show up on some years, sometimes not until late summer. In my mind I imagined that poor Pat was typing out each catalog individually on her manual typewriter, that’s why it took so long. And by the time she finished typing a catalog, her inventory had changed. They both get the gold medal for ’Best Relics of a Bygone Era’, too!
Such a pleasure to see the word "cavorting" in a post! And so appropriate! Thanks for sharing, Jackie!
Hee, hee - no magic, I am afraid, except the long passage of time. I thought about it, and the one thing I came up with is that the plants in our garden are allowed to get mature, and mostly encouraged to grow how they want. Many times they only get to their most beautiful when they are at least 5 or 6 years in the ground, and sometimes much older. Also, if they start doing strange things (there are several rose bushes which have morphed into climbers over time, for example, even though they were not "supposed" to be climbers), we just let them be. I am always curious to see what they will do.
Our flowering crab apple tree is the largest I have seen around here, and I am told by my DH's family that it was planted in the 1940s or so. It just keeps getting bigger and better. We never do anything to it, except that we did remove a few of the lower branches at the order of our Fire Dept.
The climate, of course, allows that long term growth to happen, along with the good soil, and the fact that the property has been in the same family so long. This causes a sort of feeling that if one of my DH's ancestors planted something which is still healthy, I should leave it to thrive as long as it can. (When we first moved in here, there was a giant eugenia tree - 40-50 ft tall - dropping fruit maybe 10 months of the year, right on the front brick path which leads to our front door. Being a new homeowner, I convinced my DH that we should remove it. My FIL was alive at that time, and his reaction to my DH was " Your Grandmother LOVED that tree..." - end of plan to remove the tree.) Also, anything fussy or unhappy which needs constant care or spraying dies, which leaves only the happy plants.
I am not a garden planner, or designer of perfect spaces who removes and replaces every plant which does not comply with the original design. One funny example of that is the oval bed which my DH carefully cut out of our lawn, and put a brick edging around. It was the only space I actually ever tried to "plan" seriously. The plan was to have one tree rose, surrounded by tiny miniature rose bushes. Ha! One of the "miniatures" turned out to be no such thing, and immediately climbed over the top of the tree rose. It gets bigger and bigger every year, and I love it (the tree rose is still getting bigger and blooming happily alongside and sort of under it). Last year I noticed that one of the actual original miniature roses I planted around the bottom of the tree rose (which did stay maybe 18 inches tall for many years) has suddenly become a climber and leaped up to the top of the tree rose! Luckily it still has thin canes and tiny blooms, so it is just pretty, not overwhelming. The other thing which has happened in that oval is that of course the roses are fooling around, and producing hybrid volunteers, some of which are gorgeous! I suspect the partial shade has something to do with the urge to get tall, but who knows? I just enjoy the result.
Jackie
I love hearing about your garden, and seeing the pictures each year. It all goes to show what a fortunate climate and dedicated gardeners can accomplish, especially when given the passage of generations.
Sultry we have Spider Lilies here that signal the start of fall. I adore them! I hope you do plant some in your garden/lawn.
I believe Heirloom roses currently has Madam Anisette as own root! I’m thinking of ordering it in fear it might not be available in future years. MA did have a bit longer rest in between flushes for me compared to others however, her blooms didn’t become small in the heat like Summer Romance etc. she did get a bit tall but, I also don’t prune back too hard. I truly love her and think she’s worth having if you’re into fragrance.
Sultry - Screaming Goat Baby...wouldn't that be a weird rose name. lol Yes, I'd love to find a Madame Anisette next year. :) :) Now that's the kind of rose that I love...you have to stop and smell every open bloom!!! Chandos Beauty was such a rose to me. :)
KS - that sounds like a delicious-smelling peony.
HU - let us know if you get one. :)
Over a half-inch of rain yesterday, so the blooms that are open are a bit "dewy" and nodding, but finally blooms are progressing -- a somewhat late year here, it seems. But here is the first bloom of one of my most beloved varieties ('Rose du Roi' of commerce, ex Vintage -- if it is that -- some question) with its zillion petals, fine architecture and scent, and a large bloom for this variety, at at least 4" diameter.
Time to pick your brains - again!
Watching this week's GW and Patrick Gale's garden I had my interest pricked by 'Souvenir du Docteur Jamain'. Patrick said it was ideal for a North facing aspect, but I see it online as for East, West and South (Sun or Partial Shade).
Does anyone grow it and what are your opinions? I think I would need a large obelisk for it, but I do like its colour and the fact it is scented.
Picture Credit | David Austin
As always, grateful for any information/experience.
Oh, good grief. I just realizes this thread is about deeply cupped Austin roses, and Ascot is definitely not an Austin. So......
Eglantyne
I really prefer her frillier look which is more common.
How could I forget Golden Cel?
Or the divine E?
Her parent Tamora?
Or Mr Twotone, The Prince?
Windowsill - I didn't know that (and I grew this rose, lol). What a charming habit and picture. :)
Diane - not an austin...but definitely deeply cupped. And what divine pictures!!! Your 2nd pic of Eglantyne is my favorite...oh my!!!! And then you slay us (SWOON) with even more pictures of gorgeous roses!!! Your GC is out of this world!!
Yeah, I told Paul that a lot of us are going to miss his posts. I hope he reconsiders and comes back on. There will always be the few who make it difficult occasionally, but I’m glad for each one who stays and contributes to the wealth of knowledge of this community. I think Paul has so much to offer.
Ben and Sultry...unreal. I'm super glad the two of you stayed!!! :) :)
Thanks for letting me know motbto prune Ellen . I would have made her very angry with me .
And As to mean people Grrrrr!!’ As my mother used to say, ” if you dont have anything nice to say , dont say anything at all ” Good advice !
Brandon - Thank you for the lovely treat! I have never seen that rose before, and was surprised at the color in a species rose - such a lovely yellow! I liked the cupped form too - made the blooms look like Easter eggs. A nice rose to be the first bloomer in your garden -
Jackie
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
In fact, I think I spent this evening falling in love with Distant Drums. Thanks, Alice! :)
It's kinda happening...and I already found myself wondering if I could find a spot for him somewhere (sounds like a "boy" to me).
I had heard of him but never stopped to examine. That shifty color and its overall subtlety ...there's just something mesmerizing about this rose.
Since my success has been mainly container based, I wonder if this rose would work in a container...
Sultry - I agree. Your Fighting Temeraire looks very much like Mutablis. I love the look of it. :) Oh, you should frame that rooster photo!! WOW!! Your Summer Romance is incredible!!
Alice - WOW!!! I'm in love with your picture of Distant Drums!!! Those inner petals are to die for!!
Artist - I think that DD would be very good in a container. :)