Ben Lomond rose garden, Manassas, VA

catsrose

15 years ago

Thanks for letting us know about this. It will be fun to watch the garden grow. I am always grateful to people who take the time to restore things like this. Much nicer than tearing it down and putting up a mall.

paddlehikeva

15 years ago

Thanks Cecily for posting this. I have not visited the garden for a few years. The last time I was there, they had put in a few modern hybrid teas. Have they reverted back to OGRs?

Kathy

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Since Dennis Wetzel was added to the staff at the Center for Historic Plants at Tufton, the Noisettes have been looking much better. They are both bigger and healthier, in spite of the Easter Freeze of 2007 and problems with Rose Rosette Disease. I grow noisettes at an elevation of 1100' and have kept them going happily without any winter protection at temps down to -5F (so far). But I don't overfertilize them because I know they are not HTs and they don't want to be forced to put on lots of new growth in fall. Lori, thanks for the news of Ben Lommond. It was because of an initial question on Gardenweb, that we helped them figure out their problem was RRD and that got Virginia Tech to become well informed on the disease. I'm sorry to hear that it's still a problem there. They were loosing a really wonderful plant of Souv. de la Malmaison to RRD the last time DH and I were there, and it was on other roses as well.

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cecily
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15 years ago

Hi Kathy, yes it's all OGRs now. If you google 'ben lomond rose garden' there's a website with a list & photos of all roses included in the garden.

anntn6b

15 years ago

It's good that they haven't given up.
A volunteer in that garden came on Gardenweb about a problem with roses in the garden and we ended up talking to her on line and then by phone and also worked with the park people and that led to Virginia Tech's coming up to speed on Rose Rosette.
Yes, GardenWeb was the way the problem got to an answer.

I've visited it once, about a year and a half after the initial problem was diagnosed. They had a great healthy plant of Souv de la Malmaison, but it was riddled with RRD. It was one of the original plants from the fellow who inspired the planting of the garden.

Manassas Battlefield has a lot of multiflora and there is multiflora along drainage areas in some of the subdivisions, so they're going to have to keep up their vigilance.

It is good to know that there will still be a rose garden there.

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zeffyrose

15 years ago

I'm always so happy when people take the time and effort to save old places-----

Ann---It must give you much satisfaction to know that your knowledge and kindness helped in recognizing RRD and helped in this restoration.

Florence

zeffyrose

15 years ago

WOW----Cecily---thanks so much for telling us about the Ben Lomond house---I went to the web-site and was caught up in the history of the house----I think it would take me at least a week probably much longer to read the fantastic history of the house and the area----

Thanks again ------

Florence

organic_tosca

15 years ago

This was fascinating. Being in California, I'm not likely to see it, but I greatly enjoyed reading about it. Maybe in another year or two (when the roses have a chance to grow a bit more), some of the Virginia Garden Webbers would take some pictures of the house and the gardens and post them here!

paddlehikeva

14 years ago

Cecily,

It is nice to see they have also updated the website. It was never updated after the RRD roses were removed. My last visit a couple of years ago they had removed an entire bed of OGRs and put in some recently introduced hybrid teas.

I will never forget my first visit to Ben Lomond when I first became interested in OGRs. I visited during peak bloom and as soon as I pulled into the parking lot I could smell that heady rose fragrance. It was sad to watch the garden decline so rapidly. I will take a trip to see it again this year. Thanks for letting us know that it has been restored.

Kathy

hartwood

14 years ago

I'm going to be in Manassas tomorrow morning, taking my cat to the vet. If I have to leave her there for a while, I plan to head over to Ben Lomond to see the garden ... and I always have my camera with me. BTW, I lived right around the corner from there in the 70's.

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