What is your best and most beloved reblooming old-fashioned rose?
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What are your old fashioned tips?
Comments (101)Just a note "Dio Tenaceous" earth is actually "diatomaceous earth" (aka "DE"), as it is made of diatoms. :) When you use it either for garden or pet, there are some cautions to take. First, always use "food grade" DE. Pool-grade DE is too sharp and can be harmful; it is not meant to be ingested or used on pets or plants where humans or pets could ingest (or lick). Fresh-water food-grade is best, but most organic gardening places and many online shops sell food-grade DE. Second, as with ALL dusts, please do not use so much that you can really see it or breathe it, and always make sure either to not breathe it and use eye protection if there is a wind (and cover your pets' eyes), or use a dust mask, etc. One way of distributing it is by using a pizza cheese sprinkler. Planting tomatoes: When you plant them, pick the leggier plants. Pick off the lower branches of your transplants, and plant the tomato at an angle / Various: Look up "companion planting" there are many plants that grow well together. If you plant companion plants at the base of taller plants, you will have to do less weeding, and you will water more efficiently. One example is planting greens between onions, or basil at the feet of tomatoes. Strawberries. Plant radish patches near your strawberry patches. The radishes will draw the lygus bugs away from your strawberry blooms. You can them vacuum them off of the radishes or use your organic chemicals there without hurting your delicate berries....See MoreOld-Fashioned Rose questions
Comments (10)I'm not aware of any rose that needs to be deadheaded. I think most rose gardeners do that because it looks a lot neater. Some people maintain that deadheading encourages new growth and blooms--which is why they do it. Likewise, most roses don't require pruning although there can be certain benefits from pruning. Other than deadwood, I usually only prune in the very early spring and then only on roses that had winter damage from low temps. For general care, roses need a minimum of 6 hours of sun, water, and at least one feeding per season--any 10-10-10 type food will work, but many of us like rose food like RoseTone (or any one of the --Tones) which we may put on in the early spring and after each bloom cycle--perhaps 3 times a season. Kate...See MoreBest old-fashioned roses for cottage garden?
Comments (28)Taoseeker- I am thinking about trying a Yolande d'Aragon hybrid perpetual. Other people in the area have had good success with this rose, even with the cold winters. I'd love to try a Jacques Cartier, but I want to check at Northland Rosarium to see if it's recommended for our zone. Mariannese- Wow! You have 36 Gallicas? Do you have any pics of your garden? I'd love to see them. I would like to try a Charles de Mills, which is supposed to be pretty cold hardy and maybe a Tuscany and Apothecary rose. Isabelle- I showed my husband the picture of your grape arbor and table and chairs. I have wanted to do something similar in our back yard, maybe with my antique bricks underneath. He likes the bricks, but didn't really know what I wanted. After seeing your picture, he thinks it would be a great idea! Yea! and thanks :)...See MoreHealthy old-fashioned roses in white and buff/copper?
Comments (11)You might end up with spots on 'Iceberg'. The other one on your list I know is 'Blanche Double de Coubert'. This is a Hybrid Rugosa with the growth and foliage characters of Rosa rugosa, may therefore not look like what you are visualizing. And if on its own roots may sucker to form a thicket, or if grafted on an incompatible rootstock dwindle away after planting - I have experienced both occurrences myself with R. rugosa cultivars. R. rugosa 'Alba' actually grew under the paved private road here to come up in the garden across the street, with the shoots appearing there being identical to those of suckers on my side - and clearly not ones produced by seedlings. The only other kind of plant I have had send out a rootstock that went such a distance before sprouting was a Phyllostachys bamboo. A white one seen in local plantings - frequently where no other roses are being grown - that requires no disease protection is being circulated under the study name "Darlow's Enigma". It often produces a tall, twiggy prickly bush; the leaves and flowers are small but the semi-double flowers are sweetly fragrant and appear for months, on a plant that functions in the garden as a carefree flowering landscape shrub....See Morezaphod42
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