Which Rose Should I Choose?
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Which Roses Should I Choose?
Comments (18)You're all going to want to kill me, after so kindly taking the trouble to help me, but I've decided once again to keep that area free of further roses. When I look out the French door from my bed all I can see in that area is green, and it's so soothing and wonderful, especially since everything else in my garden has color. The problem is weeds and so I'm constantly trying to figure out what to do with this rectangle. I'd thought about roses for this area before, and even had Blumenschmidt growing there, but I've moved that to another spot to keep this area open and serene. And then once again I was seduced by the thought of roses and hence this post. But often your first instincts are the best and I'm going to have to find a way to keep this as a peaceful green area (except for the pink climbers which I can't see from my bedroom) and continue to wrestle with the problem of how to make this area look good with a minimum of green plants. One good thing though, I've learned about the dimensions of teas I was interested in. Information about roses is always a good thing. Thank you again, everyone. Ingrid P.S. Jeri, in case you didn't see my comment on another post, the Single Cerise China which you enabled me to get has buds all the time. I think it's going to be one of the most floriferous roses I have and it's a cutie....See MoreHelp me choose which roses should I keep?
Comments (10)That depends upon room, Jimmy. If you have a limited space and the once flowering rose is huge, why would you want to keep it? You'd have to whack it so severely it wouldn't flower. It seems more in line with my personal aesthetics to take the ones which flower continuously so the room would be as colorful as possible and which would fit the spaces best. You will soon begrudge something with less colorful time its space, time and other resources. Think of the others in the household, too. If it's big, potentially diseased due to not being able to grow as large as it needs to remain well fed from the foliage cover and wood it needs genetically, and is always just green and thorny, how will your parents and anyone else who views it refer to it? Will they begrudge it the space and water because it seldom pleases them? I'd think they would be much more agreeable to the rose's intrusion on their room if it flowered constantly so it provided them eye candy. Kim...See MoreAbraham Darby or A Shropshire Lad?
Comments (78)Thanks Suzanne! Bee balm would be great. I totally forgot about Bee Balm. I'm trying to get more plant for bees, butterflies, etc. I probably wont put in another rose into this bed unless it is short. I think I have enough tall ones and there is maybe 1 space that I could squeeze a short rose into the front on the left. I will have to see if all the other ones I put in make it okay lol. Does LD Braithwaite stay small in warm zones? Thanks to Lisa's enabling photos of PCdM, I have two in the ground and another in a pot! With the 3 Abe Darbys I will be full of peachy apricot sherberty goodness all summer long lol! I totally envy everyone that can griw poppies. I haven't had much luck here with them. I can get them started but they pout when they get in the garden. Perhaps the humidity.. My Crown Princess Margareta improves every year. She definitely takes her time. I almost tossed her the first year. Ugly fugly blooms like the grossest washed out orange yellow ever. Barely double and tiny. I have 2 and they both looked the same way. The next year they were much bigger and better. Last year they actually looked half decent. I think she likes colder winters than I have. She likes to be pruned hard in early spring. She grows like a big climber here. One is climbing my fig tree. The other is espalier near the fig tree. She is full of buds right now so hopefully they will be nice! Last year ~Sjn...See MoreWhich doors should I choose?
Comments (27)White would be my choice too but only because I have lived with dark stained woodwork and doors for close to twenty years. I am sick to death of the dark look. The doors are wood even though they are hollow core and the grain is very nice but I would replace it all if DH weren't so stubborn....See MoreUser
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