Your late season pics, please ...and benefits of roses
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Best roses of the year - please post your pics.
Comments (13)Thank you, Victoria and Eahamel for more beauties. I have been fantasizing about apple scent in yellow, and Victoria gave the answer, Alberic Barbier. Hansa is great in deep pink. Eahamel, I always love Carefree Beauty here in Chicagoland - it's more stunning than the boring Knock-outs. I'll check out Old Blush and Blush Noisette. My sister in her 60's, who is never married said to me, "I want to give you this advance ... because when I die, I want to leave something beautiful behind." That speaks well for gardeners: the least we can do is to leave behind something beautiful that grace the planet earth after we die. The house at the corner is in foreclosure, abandoned for years. There's a mighty ugly climbing rose that went wild. It's a real eye-sore for the neighborhood. I will NEVER plant climbing rose in my zone 5a, and neither does the rose park nearby. In contrast, I remember the house with a big garden of hybrid teas in front. It was the highlight of my long walk home during my junior high years in Michigan. Someone mentioned Rose de Rescht thrived while abandoned in Illinois. Another mentioned Louis Odier thrived with beauty when no one watered him. That's the type of beauty I'm after. Something that grace the earth, rather than being an eyesore....See Moreroses....and more..please post your flower pics..
Comments (114)I have been enjoying everyones gorgeous gardens and fabulous flower pictures. We finally have warm weather here in Wisconsin. Tulips, daffodills and other early spring flowers have come and gone. Roses,peonies and others are not blooming yet.My flowering trees were a week to 10 days later than normal but as you can see by this one. It was worth the wait....See MorePlease Share Your 5 Best Rose Bush Pics from Last Year!
Comments (56)Heere another favorite Flower Girl this one I got from Amity's Roses back when they were an all own root nursery. I've it for 12 years or more. In all that time she has never had a spot or mildew also apparently immune to anthracnose. She is normally a bit more upright I gave her too much nitrogen last year. Also spent to much time growing rather than flowering as much as normal. Won't do that again. Next to her is one of several gladiolus that I have had nearly as long. This is it's third time moved. Moved it right before our first wretched polar vortex winter and it lived. These are summer glads that should not be even close to hardy, I never dig them up to store them. They always come back even when the ground freezes below the bulb. Trust me here as it turns out glads have an amazing survival skill. I dug a clump a few years ago as it wasn't performing like it should. Well it was a giant stack of bulbs. When the bulb froze it would grow a new one on top so there was always the top couple still producing green leaves. Maybe glads always grow this way I don't know. All I need to do is take off the top bulb and replant about 8 inches deep and its starts the whole again. It was a stack of ten bulbs. One for each year it was planted. Sorry that was so long especially if you don't like glads....See MoreIs it possible to get a rose to start blooming earlier in rose season?
Comments (15)This thing about "when in rose season does a given variety start to bloom" is a big deal for me. As I've mentioned before, I don't much care for roses that open very late,because of the bad summer weather. Another reason is that, with so many roses, I don't really dead-head,so after the main flush is over, the whole garden tends to have a pretty tatty,messy appearence, so the late blooms can make me feel guilty that I don't give them a nice setting. But then there's this other thing about orchestrating garden areas to obtain certain colour harmonies. Right now, I have this kind of luscious little bouquet of Burgundy Iceberg, Mme. Ligier, and Azubis : burgundy, violet-pink, and lavender-I just LOVE it. So I'd love it if I could get this one particular plant of Rosengarten Z, in this one particular spot, to bloom earlier, because it is that special,rare dark purple,maintaining the colour in heat pretty well. Also, being a climber,it's vigorous enough to be pretty easy in my tough conditions-I just recently have started with floribundas, for example,and am finding that many of them are harder to get going,and don't really accept being watered only in their first year. It's funny, because if you look on the Lens Roses site http://www.lens-roses.be/en_US/shop/page/13?ecom_main_cat=4&ecom_cat=25&ppg=12 ,you'll see that they offer both Rosengarten Z and Roville,but they say that RZ blooms from June-October,whereas Roville blooms July-Oct.Instead, in my garden, Roville starts early, in main rose season..(.and,I might add is still going strong and looking great now in mid-July!!! What a rose! This is the first year it's done this; previously I never thought that much of it) Instead, Super Dorothy starts late as they say it does on the site, as does Super Excelsa, though this latter is a little earlier than SD....See Moreharborrose_pnw
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