Thanks for tour, Malcolm. It was the next best thing to being there. You really have a lovely garden.

Sherry

Linkage

Here is a link that might be useful: OP link

Is anyone else having trouble seeing the pictures? They all appear broken on Flickr's site.

Eric

What a treat it was to peruse all those photos -- kind of a rose phantasmagoria! The Teas are especially wonderful, that humongous 'Marechal Niel' is phenomenal -- and I've never seen a full-bush photo of such a lush, HEALTHY 'Gruss an Teplitz'! Thanks for posting . . .

One question, Malcolm: Are ALL the roses on Fortuniana rootstock?

(Eric -- I'm not having difficulty viewing the site. Try again . . . )

Wow! What a great slide show. I need to look at it again more slowly. Thanks so much for posting it.

Jax, We grow nearly everything on 'Fortuniana'. I'm trying to remember if anything in the photos is on anything else -- will have to look again. We do grow 'Smith's Parish' and 'Red Smith's Parish' own root, as well as 'Old Blush', 'Louis Philippe', 'Spray Cécile Brünner', and R. laevigata, but I'm thinking there were no photos of any of those there. Then we grown 'Ausmas' (a.k.a. "Graham Thomas" TM) on 'Dr. Huey' to make it flower more than it would on 'Fortuniana. Again, no pics of it here. So yes, I believe everything you saw is on 'Fortuniana'. Other than a few of the Austins, which turn into non-flowering house eaters on Fort., I like growing nearly everything on it, since we get more vigorous plants, more flowers, larger flowers on longer stems, and much increased bush life.

Such beautiful roses in your garden. How I wish I could see them in person, last year we were there too late.

Thanks for the photographs, a vicarious visit.

Denise

It was wonderful to see so many beautiful old roses that would probably like my garden. My only other wish would have been to know the name of each. Some I could guess but others I'm not sure about. Something about they way they were photographed made them look so real, almost touchable. Thank you for this great pleasure.

Ingrid

Ingrid, if you click on "Details", you'll see some of the photos have captions with names.

Sherry

Thank you Sherry, when I looked through the slides a second time I noticed that option.

Ingrid

Beautiful roses, and I love the healthy foliage.

Yes, everything has a name attached, and some have a description as well. It's unfortunate that the slideshow feature of flickr does not make that obvious.

Great photos,since we are the same zone I covered up the names and tried to guess the names. We visited the gardens earlier this year and the roses were extremely healthy. I wish others could see the gardens as well as the many frank Lloyd Wright buildings. When we visited there were no plant labels which was disappointing, maybe that was because was prior to the beautiful spring season. Thanks again for the wonderfull photos, we learned alot.

I finally was able to see the pics! :)
They all look so healthy and happy. Those are some big hybrid teas! I can only dream of having a Marechal Niel :)

Eric

Beautiful---thanks for sharing--

Florence

Malcom...just beautiful !! I especially enjoyed seeing pics of the entire bush as well as the individual flowers. You should post this again around February when we are all wishing for a bloom!! Donna

Thanks so much for posting those lovely photos - it was enjoyable for me to see photos of a Florida garden, so that I can get a better idea of how some of these roses will look in my garden. I have some of the varieties you posted, but they are babies (bands) and I have never actually had them really bloom for me yet.

thanks again,
Avalon

Malcolm, I just noticed the size of the canes on Tiffany (next to last photo). They are so huge! I have a Tiffany on Fortuniana in the ground since 2/07. She is still tiny - maybe 2' tall and not even a half dozen canes. Do they take a long time to mature and gain size? Mine is competing with tree roots so that could be an issue. I hear about Florida HTs on Fort being 8' tall by August, and I'm wondering how many years that takes? I kinda was expecting to have a giant 'overnight', but I guess Fortuniana isn't THAT vigorous. Mine's healthy, too, right now, and I don't spray. Do you?

Sherry

Sherry, I wonder if your tree roots may be the problem; otherwise, are you watering and fertilizing enough? 8' for an HT here should not take much over a year, with maximum bush size within 2 years. Our 'Christian Dior' is about 15 years old now, but it was every bit that big by year 2.

I just posted another 45 photos. I left them at the bottom of the set so they're easy to find, rather than blend them in by variety, as with the rest of the set.
Malcolm

More great photos, Malcolm. Do you think if I water & feed extra (which I've tried to do) that would help Tiffany? And do you think eventually the Fortuniana will win out? Or is it a miracle it has survived this well? See da big oak tree?

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Sherry

I took the tour, and think your roses are amazing.

Malcolm, you have commented from time to time about the use of Round Up in the beds and around the beds.

I understand that Round Up can damage or kill the roses or even give them a look like RRD. However, did you also say that something is wrong with even using it to spot kill a big dandelion or other weed that is hard to grab? Is there supposed to be a problem with the Round Up in a bed even if you do not hit the rose -- even if you paint it on the weed?

Thanks,
Sammy

Sherry, I think the tree must be the problem. I'd consider moving the rose.

Sammy, we've seen Roundup damage on roses even when the person spraying (used to be me) was exceedingly careful not to have any spray drift. I have been told, and I tend to believe, that the following is the case:

Roundup is correctly stated to adsorb to soil particles almost instantly, and so will not move through soil to the roots of other plants. HOWEVER, in a rose garden, where we use a mulch (we use pine needles), roses will often send their roots up into the mulch, which does NOT tightly adsorb the roundup, so if you use roundup anywhere over the root zone of the rose, you are in danger of damaging it. And in our case, using 'Fortuniana' roots, that area could extend 10 or more feet from the base of the rose. The one way we do use Roundup in a rose garden is as a "wiped" application, where it is applied directly to the leaves of the offending weed, but not to the mulch underneath. We've done that by wearing a rubber glove with a cloth glove over it, getting the glove damp with RU solution, and then just handling the weeds. Now that I say that, I know Roundup is labeled for application with a wiping applicator, but I'm not sure the glove system is officially labeled. If not, then I am not officially recommending that...

Thank you so much. That seems better than to walk around with a bucket and brush.

I won't take this as official, but certainly will remember about the roots.

Sammy