Recommendations pls - Antiques resembling DA's Juliet & Patience
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Phooey on the Austin's
Comments (60)I grow so many Austins that it would be simpler to list those that I don't grow, than those that I do. My collection just keeps growing because (surprisingly) Austins like it here. Is it the short growing season? The cold? My mountain air? Or maybe they like it that I spend a lot of time out there with them....perhaps they like company? Whatever it is, my Austins are among my happiest (modern) roses. What is intriguing to me is that many of my Austins are hardier than most of my Buck's and definitely hardier than my floribundas. I could list quite a few that come through winter with minimal dieback, which is a very rare miracle here...most modern roses start each spring with only about 5 inches of cane after pruning. Also, most of them are healthy here and bloom regularly. I get armloads of blooms and have very little disease issues. But could that be due to the short growing season? Roses don't start blooming in my yard until mid-June and are all done by mid-Sept.....not a very long time to have to be well-behaved...LOL. Maybe Austins like to sleep rather than work? Here they get a very long slumber. So maybe they 'wake up' all refreshed and ready to bloom. I even grow many of the 'older' Austins and am pleasantly surprised to find that they do just fine too. Each year I add a couple more, to test my luck. So far, only Bredon and Grace are wimpy and disease-prone... and I have to keep Grace, because that's my oldest daughter's name. It's planted right next to Tiffany...(my youngest daughter's name)....and the two of them drive me crazy all summer with blackspot. Very fitting. Celeste...See MoreYour experience with Austin's Roses in American Gardens
Comments (64)First, let me say that I'm in central Italy, not the USA. Normally, at the end of July we would expect that our temperatures should be at least 30 - 35 degrees C or more (85 - 95 F) from mid-June until the end of August with no rain since, at least, the beginning of June until the end of August. However, this year is like no other. Last winter wasn't cold, it rained constantly until mid-May and it's now raining three or four times a week at the end of July - absolutely unheard of - it's raining as I write this, and today our top temperature was 21 degrees! So, how has this affected my roses? Well, blackspot is the major problem. My rose garden is only two years old. The first two Austins I planted were a St. Swithun climbing rose against the south-facing stone wall of the house and a Golden Celebration planted in full sun. These were both 2 year old grafted plants. For me, 'full sun' means that in Summer sunrise is between 5:30 and 6:00 am and sunset is about 8:30 - 9:00 pm. There is no shade for any of my roses (apart from the one against the South-facing stone wall) - they're in 'full sun' all day. St. Swithun has almost reached the top of the 4 metre (13 feet) South facing stone wall of the house. It was planted in mid-May 2012. Despite its location the pale pink blooms are prolific from April until November. It really doesn't seem to stop blooming until very late November. The perfume of the blooms is wonderful (I like the myrrh fragrance) and it is a healthy plant, apart from some BS problems with our ridiculously humid weather this year. The flowers do not fade, even though they are a pale pink. However, it has the most hideous prickles of any of my roses. They really are vicious and I have to wear leather gauntlets when dealing with it. The other negative comment I have about St. Swithun is that the blooms don't fall off the plant when they've finished flowering - they stay there, dead, brown and ugly! I have to use a broom to knock them off. Because of the height of the rose I've had to spend a fortune on a ladder that's tall enough for me to take my life into my hands and prune it! Golden Celebration is, perhaps, my favourite DA rose. My grafted version is about 1.5 metres high with a diameter that is at least the same as its height. It is covered in blooms all Summer long and is normally disease free but, this year it has some BS. The fragrance of Golden Celebration is the most pleasing to me. Other DA roses I have - A hedge of Queen of Sweden roses (100 plants) - the most healthy of all my DA roses. Planted bare root in January 2013, they now form a hedge about 1.2 - 1.5 metres in height that flower constantly from the end of April until November. A delightful myrrh fragrance. I can't think of anything negative about the Queen of Sweden. An own-root Teasing Georgia bought in May 2013 in a 2.5 litre pot which is now over 1 metre tall and perhaps 1.5 metres in diameter. It has flowered constantly since mid April. At the moment it has some black spot, but it is smothered in blooms. I find its fragrance very elusive. An own-root Golden Celebration, also bought in May 2013 in a 2.5 litre pot which is not as vigorous as Teasing Georgia but is healthy and floriferous. A 2 year old grafted Lichfield Angel, planted in June 2013, mid-Summer (never a good idea - but it was a gift). It is already a 1.5 metre tall x 1.5 metre diameter plant covered in enormous blooms. For me the only negative about this plant is the lack of any fragrance - at least, I can't detect any. A grafted Wildeve - I love the bloom form - but I should have paid more attention to the catalogue where it said that it shared many characteristics of a ground-cover rose. Mine is much wider than it is tall but it, too, is covered in the most beautiful pale pink roses with a lovely perfume. A Shropshire Lad - a mistake. I didn't realise that I had bought the climbing version. This too, is a 2 year old grafted plant that I've spent all spring/summer trying to convince to become a shrub rose. I believe I'm fighting a losing battle. It's also a complete BS magnet. I've also noticed that my Shropshire Lad flowers don't seem to bear any resemblance to others I've seen. Don't quite know what went wrong here. I can't detect any fragrance. Sharifa Asma x 2 - bought as own-root plants in 2.5 litre pots in May 2014. Replanted into larger pots a month ago they've both doubled in size and are now covered in buds. I just wonder whether I can keep them small enough to grow in 50 cm pots? Very healthy foliage and delightful perfume. Evelyn - another gift - about a six weeks ago. I've replanted it into a larger pot until I can decide where it should be planted. At present, the foliage doesn't look great and it seems to have some fungal infection so I've sprayed with an anti-fungal spray to see if I can control it. Sorry for such a long post … I forgot to say that I have extremely alkaline, very heavy clay - pH 8 soil - which, in its natural state varies between yellow and blue/grey in colour. Truly hideous. I have amended it heavily with anything and everything I can find - kilos of coffee grounds from my local bar, dozens of plastic bags of oak leaves (which I collect in early Spring an let rot down for 12 months), truck loads of rotted horse manure. Something must be working because the roses are all growing like crazy. Cheers Tricia...See MoreMad Diary of Zone Busting in Zone 3 ...The End is a Long Way Away
Comments (7)Oh my. What is a passionate rose lover like you doing in that glacial hell hole? Reading about your endeavors has exhausted me and I haven't even lifted a shovel. I admire your grit and determination, but would love to see you rewarded with thousands of blooms on your rose bushes for all your hard work. I bet they could use engineers in zones 7 to 10!...See MorePlease show us your painted furniture & household objects!
Comments (56)Hi CC -- I agree about the pix disappearing. I've often looked at older threads on this board only to discover the photos had disappeared. That's why I don't use Photobucket. I used to use Imageshack, but switched to TinyPic and like them better. I recommend them! You don't need to sign up or anything. I have no "album." Thanks for the kind words about my painting. Again I want to point out to everyone that the majority of what I've posted here is *not* my work. The credit belongs to other very talented artists. Where it was my work I said so. That's a shame about your neighbor saying nothing about your tree. I hope others have been more observant and appreciative. One of my neighbors took a look at the borders I'd painted on my staircase. She was about three feet into my house, and she looked right at my border and said, "Don't overdo it with too much decorative painting." Sheesh. But go look at the muralist sites, and you'll often see that they're putting their work into multi-million dollar estates! Oh, I forgot (sorry Luv) that I did do a couple of things since I was last here... This was a little plain box from Michaels: This is a shelf/peg rack I also got from Michaels. I fashioned my cat after one that is pictured in this post, and the rest after a painting I loved on eBay. Then I turned the ends of the pegs into ladybugs for fun....See Moreandreageorgia
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