Wisteria among the roses ?
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Comments (37)Susan, I do not grow garden glads (I find them too much work too, and the flowers are too showy, I think they compete with, rather than compliment roses), I grow Byzantine glads (g. byzantinus). They are shorter and the flowers much smaller, airier and daintier than the garden hybrids. I love them. I wish I had a problem with them spreading out of control (I wouldn't mind that), but they are not terribly aggressive... They never need staking. Masha On a blog, at the end of a post, there is a little sign that displays the number of comments (e.g. "10 comments"), click on that, and you will see everybody's comments, scroll to the end and you should see the "Post Comment" window....See MoreWhy are there truffles growing among my roses roots?
Comments (3)Take a look at this article by Shannon Berch; An image of the species of truffle is avaiable at BCTruffles.ca Two exciting new truffle finds on Vancouver Island In October, my husband Hoke and I were redoing a garden bed in back to expand our hardy fuchsia planting. At about drip-line of a planted willow, we dug up about 10 small white truffles. I confirmed that they were truffles (i.e. species of the scientific genus Tuber) and not one of the myriad other truffle-like hypogeous fungi by examining the spores under the microscope. I figured that they were one or other of the Oregon white truffles (Tuber oregonense or Tuber gibbosum) but using the identification key that a colleague went me, was unable with confidence to call them either species. So, I asked my colleague Dr. Mary Berbee at UBC to sequence the DNA of the collection and compare it to other Tuber species. She graciously did this and told me that the fungus was Tuber rapaeodorum. Greg Bonito, PhD candidate at Duke University in Tuber taxonomy, tells me "this is a European species, but has been found all over the world including NE & NW USA, and New Zealand. It is the most widespread Tuber, and most common "unidentified Tuber" in GenBank. It likely has been introduced to these regions unintentionally via horticulture. It tends to be small in size, and pale, similar to Tuber maculatum." I believe that we must have introduced it on the willow we bought from a local nursery, but who really knows. Then, about a month later, I found a couple of specimens of Hydnangium carneum at the drip line of the big Eucalyptus growing at Glendale Garden and Woodlands in Saanich. According to the North American Truffling Society (http://www.natruffling.org/): "Hydnangium carneum associates exclusively with Eucalyptus trees. It is native to Australia but hitch-hiked to North America on the roots of imported ornamentals." I believe that both of these finds constitute new reports of these fungi for Canada. ________________________________________ By Shannon Berch: 15 Jan 2009 From the Truffle Association of BC website www.bctruffles.ca...See MoreAmong My Favorite Roses . . .
Comments (7)This one always makes me smile - there's something so delightfully exuberant yet relaxed about it. Roses that shows their stamens tend to do that to me, for some reason. Love the long sepals and those happily 'ragged' blooms too. It reminds me somewhat of Scharlachglut/ Scarlet Fire/ Scarlet Glow (Kordes 1952), which I'm also very fond of, at least in habit/size and blooms varying from deep pink to red, though single of course. It looks as if it can be kept pruned down for a bushier plant or left to arch or climb. Sadly I only know both these lovely shrubs through photographs. Do you find your GdR sets decent hips in your climate?...See MoreAmong My Favorite Roses . . .
Comments (5)I love the name Ragged Robin! There are quite a few roses which were once used for rootstock which are very good roses themselves. When I first got into roses, I was told that: "A rose may have a sucker which comes up from the base and always has red blooms. These are EVIL and must be gotten rid of as soon as possible. The always have 7 leaflets - that's how you tell they are suckers, along with the color of the blooms" I walked away thinking that a "sucker" was some sort of disease! All, all, wrong, of course. Yet I was told this by several people. As I learned more about roses (and what a sucker was actually, as well as what rootstock was) I was amazed at the ignorance of most people who thought they knew a lot about roses. Canard is a good word to describe these sorts of statements - I like that word. No bad intentions on anyones part - they were just parroting something they had been told, but got offended when I doubted it. Also, of course, all sorts of other "rules" about what must be done, what should never be done, etc. My most unfavorite statement is along the lines of "all old roses only bloom once", which I am still also seeing in articles (and even some speeches) by people who should know better. I even I still see some of this in some articles in the ARS magazine - it is so amazing to me. End of rant, and I apologize that my comments have nothing to do with Ragged Robin, which is a lovely re-blooming old rose which was once used for rootstock, and luckily was thus spread all around, and discovered all over, as it was healthier and more persistent than whatever scions it was grafted to. Jackie...See Moreogroser
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