Garden Watchdog Top Five Awards for Rose Nurseries
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Comments (22)I have had great luck w/own roots, getting the bands and potting them up, lots of water and attention, then first winter in a 3' deep ditch covered with leaves and snow, second year into the garden. Last year I tried compressing that, put some 09 bands into the new garden in July - all had arrived in April, been repotted, and had grown from 50% to double by July. We'll see. Re suckers from grafted rootstocks - I don't know what I had - but a grafted Roseraie de l'Haye was swamped by long arching canes of something nearly thornless, with lovely apple blossom type single blooms that were really fragrant. It was a border bed that I had decided to ignore in favor of putting energy and money elsewhere, and so last year it was a Brer Rabbit jungle. But whatever it was,it was really ungainly, clumsy long canes and the young man helping me with landscaping pulled out thewhole mess. You could barely see the Roseraie, in the center of the thicket. I don't find the suckering from own roots a problem - if I want a new plant, I do what Veilchen described. If I don't, i just cut it out. Come on guys, it only has value if we want it to - otherwise, hello compost pile....See MoreYour top five best scented?
Comments (54)Blush Noisette and Francis DuBreuil tied for first place Mme Isaac and Souvenir de la Malmaison & their sports tied for second place MAC, Marchesa Bocella, Marie Pavie, and Yolande d'Aragon tied for third place. Disclaimers: 1.If you're a Jude the Obscure fan you can count his votes. I get so disgusted with DA's that I somehow forgot him. 2. Shameless attempts at stuffing the ballot box for Francis Dubreuil, so I only counted one vote per person and HE WON ANYWAY. Whatta rose! And an richly-deserved honorable mention for: Prairie Harvest-- yummmm spicy & complex White Lady Banks--sublime smell of violets you don't have to lie on your stomach to smell. 2-car garage is minimum size structure for this rose (use next door neighbor's if poss)....See More2013 Rose Awards (from us)
Comments (57)Best picture: Fame (blossoms stay on the bush for weeks and even if faded they add color to the garden) Best actor in a leading role: Mellow Yellow (planted front and center, always blooming, "look at me" kind of bush) Best actress in a leading role: Julia Child (love those bright yellow blooms, bushy bush) Best actress in a supporting role: Betty Boop (blooms and blooms, never has any issues with mildew, no need to deadhead) Best actor in a supporting role: Christopher Marlowe (just a small bush, blooms regularly, trouble free) Best visual effects: Gourmet Popcorn (a mini which really does look like popcorn) Best foreign language: Yves Piaget (love the blooms on this bush, but sadly, a tree is shading it and it suffers mildew but blooms on) Best visual effects: Dark Lady (love the blooms, but another mildew magnet) Lifetime achievement: Snowfire (has been in place well over 30 years in a difficult, hot location. It carries on year after year.)...See MorePictures of Roses at your local nurseries
Comments (99)Ben, I was thinking the dinos were made of some kind of resin, but it's impossible to tell from photos--just looked again and it's not resin. Our soil is not sandy at all and has some clay in it. Sandy soil would be worse. I think we have a kind of cold Mediterranean type climate with months without rain during summer. I've mentioned this before, but we get only about 10 inches of any kind of precipitation. This year we'll be lucky to get nine inches if that much. The reservoirs are about empty. I use a drip system augmented with tiny sprinklers plugged into the drip lines. The drip emitters go to roses, shrubs, and trees, and the little sprinklers go to perennials and also add some water to the roses. Everything is watered. I got a lot of my college education in California, married a Californian, my daughter is a native born Californian. We lived in both the Bay area and Redondo Beach in southern Cal. Then later I went back to grad school in California--but I never gardened in California. Whew. So I'm familiar with some of the California climate. I think your drought is worse than ours right now. At least in certain parts of the state. Diane...See Morehenry_kuska
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