Seeking thornless, fragrant & disease resistant climber...
petsitterbarb
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Thornless pink climber in SE PA?
Comments (29)Hi Lisa, Please pardon my overlooking your color preferences! I got so engrossed in the thornless and height parts of it that I forgot about the rest of your wishes! I also forgot another rose that ought to have been an obvious choice, considering that I like that one enough to have bought it for myself last year. (!) Have you looked into Renae? Maybe I didn't think of it sooner because I didn't have the feeling that a polyantha would be good for that far north, but I've looked it up again now, and apparently it will go for zone 6b. And also your location for it would have some protection from drying winds and may be be a little warmer overall than farther out from your house. I think it would work, and from what I know about Renae, I think you'd like it. Eventually, anyway. Renae is a little slow to get going (as apparantly are some other rambler/climbers) but is definitely able to fill up your space easily; it's not likely to get to the top of the post and quit. There's a picture of Renae on Carolyn Parker's website pictures (link enclosed). If you scroll down towards the bottom of the page and look for pink climbers, you'll see Renae growing in her yard, plus her comment in the fine print under it mentioning that Renae is her favorite climber. (Carolyn Parker is the author of a rose book, "R is for Rose" and she has an interesting website at http://rosenotes.typepad.com/ too.) There are a couple of tiny thorns on my Renae near the ground, but otherwise it's thornless so far. When it gets established and blooming, I'm looking forward to its fragrance. Renae is the ultimate in pliable floppiness, and is often used in weeping standards. I can picture some cascades of it from the top of your posts now! She apparently does like to bloom, bloom, bloom, and then bloom some more. I have on order another one that is a Renae seedling. It might be just as hardy as Renae, though it might not have been widely available enough to tell about its degree of hardiness yet. That rose is Annie Laurie McDowell. It's supposed to be very much like Renae, but with flowers that look even better up close. Best wishes, Mary Here is a link that might be useful: Carolyn Parker's rose garden...See MoreThornless , disease free red climber that blooms long ?
Comments (7)I have had eglantyne, winchester white from DA....they all got BS and mildew in my area , but molineaux did not get any disease! So I guess i am in a disease prone area . I have narrowed down to Victorian beauty/isabella skinner since it blooms long , no disease or thorns. OR RdV - But this doesnt get too high my porch has a 12 ft pillar , not long bloom time too...So I am still debating between the 2 ! Both are awesome colors. My porch gets good direct sun till 12:30 and bright reflected sun after that (east facing) Does it matter where I get these from within USA? Will they all be the same strain? Thanks much all of you :)...See MoreThornless upright 'polite' climber, rebloomer if poss
Comments (36)Have you thought of rooting a cane of your mother's plant? Most plants that make woody stems will root from the stem/cane. Bend a flexible branch or cane to the ground and cover it with good soil, and weigh it with a rock or pin it down somehow. Bend the rest of the cane upwards and prop it with a sturdy forked twig. Keep the soil on the buried part moist but not soggy for a few weeks. The places in the plant that have the most root hormone naturally are the stem joints, where the leaves grow from. When the joint is placed on or under the ground, it stimulates roots to form instead of leaves. It's how plants like wild roses and blackberries "walk," in nature. If you do this with a rose, you get an own-root plant instead of a graft, of course. You can also take cuttings from roses and use rooting hormone. You would need to be a little patient--you are not getting a shrub size plant this way, just a twig or single cane! But you would be getting the same thing your mother has, which you seem to be interested in. Good luck!...See MoreFragrant, no spray & disease resistant roses
Comments (96)Hi Msgirl: I love your honesty .. I looked up El Catala on HMF, and I broke out laughing when I saw 3' in height .. translate to a slow & wimpy rose. Heirloom Roses is notorious for small root & slow start. Now they raise the price to $27 per band !! If the root is big & solid, then it flowers sooner (roses from Weeks & star are grafted on Dr. Huey, see below). http://scvrs.homestead.com/Rootstock.html I got roses from Heirloom Roses as own-roots and their roots were like alfalfa-sprout, instead of big & long & woody like Dr. Huey. High Country Roses in Colorado sells BIGGER own-roots at $14 per band (they ship to Hawaii). I got Austin roses from them with blooms on !! About Dr. Huey rootstock: They are native to alkaline region, thus most healthy in alkaline clay. Dr. Huey itself tends to mildew, so high potassium helps. If your soil is acidic, then raise the pH with lime to above neutral. Lime will supply calcium besides raising soil pH. Decades ago my neighbor bought a bunch of grafted-roses-on-Dr.Huey, he planted in our rock-hard clay at 7.7, and they were blooming like mad & zero diseases. I was jealous since I had just moved from an ACIDIC clay region, and gave up on roses due to black spots. Since Dr. Huey is a woody-root, calcium should be supplied at 1/2 of potassium. Calcium is what makes plant tissue firm, thus more resistant to pests like thrips, mites, and aphids. When nitrogen is supplied via chemical, the quick burst of growth makes plant tissue softer, more susceptible to pests. I have been growing tomato for 30 years, and the only 2 years with big-fat tomato worms, plus blossom-end-rot were the years I used chemical fertilizer 10-10-10. Other years with ORGANIC slow-released nitrogen like manure, cocoa mulch, alfalfa .. no worms, no blossom-end-rot, since those ORGANIC sources supply low-nitrogen, decent potassium & calcium & trace elements....See Morescardan123
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