Any roses that do particularly well in part shade? Any Austins?
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Comments (146)Tess is such a good rose. It was on the bush 6 days and just kept getting poofier and poofier but held together. Its been a dry heat and in the 90's this past week plus uber smoky from the wildfires and literally 'raining' ash some days. Gotta love Tess! Some others doing well in the wicked heat TIMF Litchfield Angel Jude the Obscure...I swear I couldnt get enough pics of him the other day!! He is sooo ~Dreamy~ I'm obsessed with the way the buds look half open. I could get lost in those buds for hours!...See MoreDo you keep any roses for the blooms alone?
Comments (23)I am seeing evidence that KO roses are infiltrating private gardens also - gardeners are planting them who thought they could never grow roses because they bought into the ARS exhibitors' almost religious insistence that: 1) there is only one type of proper "rose", 2) you must have a "spraying program" that means getting into a spacesuit and flooding your garden with poisons every 2 weeks, 3) you must obey the rules of pruning they made up (some of which are just plain wrong), 4) you must feed your roses with a home made magic recipes that contain ingredients that are difficult to find, etc. etc. etc. The main thing I object to about "growing roses for the flowers alone" is not the folks that do that, but the overall impression that got into our culture's conventional wisdom that roses were almost impossible to grow unless you were a fanatic. I am hoping that as gardeners have success growing KO and its brethren, they will realize that roses are great plants, and you do not need to be some sort of high priest using strange rituals to grow them. Hopefully more breeders will follow Ralph Moore's advice, and we will get a stream of healthy easy to grow roses with lovelier flowers, and roses will reappear in most gardens. Jackie...See MoreAny Pa Rose Growers Here? which OGRs and Austins are your Favs?
Comments (4)What part of PA, please? If in the SE part of the state, I recommend a trip over to the Moorestown Mall (Moorestown, NJ) this Saturday for the West Jersey Rose Society's rose show (the Philadelphia show was yesterday). Many of the SE PA/NJ rose growers will be there, you'll get to see a lot of the once-blooming OGRs (in addition to a lot of the modern shrubs) and quite a few are now growing without synthetic chemicals. I can recommend Marchesa Boccella, Rose de Recht, Cardinal de Richelieu and Lyda Rose. Polyanthas also do very well....See MoreAny roses for partial shade ?
Comments (16)Rosa multiflora is the species that gives shade tolerance to roses descending from it. So Multiflora Ramblers would be the large shade-tolerant once-blooming roses, then Hybrid Musks the medium to large shade-tolerant repeat-blooming roses, then Multiflora-based (not Wichurana-based) Polyanthas would be the small to medium shade-tolerant repeat-blooming roses. You'll find a few here and there among other types, but these are the safer bets by class. There is an issue with Multiflora, however, in alkaline soil -- they don't like it. So, you have two options, since I'm assuming that where you are in Florida has sandy alkaline soil. One is to see if you can find them on Fortuniana rootstock, which does well in your conditions. The other is to amend the planting areas to make for conditions they like. You'll find garden sulfur available for mixing into the soil. You'll also want to mulch well, to compensate for fast drainage. And when you choose fertilizer, pick something for acid-loving plants, like Espoma Holly Tone. You may also need to add an iron supplement, like Ironite, since iron gets bound up in alkaline soil, and Multiflora roses in those conditions will have trouble extracting it, resulting in pale leaves. :-) ~Christopher...See Moredublinbay z6 (KS)
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