your favorite, fragrant, prolific cutting roses
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What's your favorite rose for cutting?
Comments (24)Most of the dark velvety reds make decent cutting roses for me. I have Veterans' Honor,Let Freedom Ring, Beloved, Liebeszauber, Olympiad, Ingrid Bergman, Grande Amore, Royal William, Dream Scarlett, and The Passion in my garden that are good red cutting roses. As far as some of the other colors, Light Pink, Brown/Tans,and most yellows don't last as long as most other roses. Also a lot depends on the amount of substance the petals of the flower have. The more petal substance, the longer they last and unfortunately generally the less fragrant they are--just like most florist roses. A few "others" that are good cutting roses for me are Terracotta, Mavrik, St. Patrick, Marilyn Monroe, O'rilla, Cary Grant, Pope John Paul II, Spellbound, Folklore, Elizabeth Taylor, Welcome Home, DayBreaker, Preference, Hot Cocoa. Also, some mini/miniflora's are pretty good for me as well. Just depends on the substance of the flowers. Try This Is The Day, Fairhope, Dr. John Dickman, Power Point, Ingrid, Denver's Dream, Ricky Hendricks, Camden, Leading Lady, Peter Cottontail, Rachel, Nancy Jean, Sassy Cindy, Jupiter, Conundrum, Charismatic, Irresistible, Dr. Troy Garrett, Coffee Bean, and Glowing Amber. These have been pretty cutting roses in my garden. Make sure you cut your stems underwater and use something to feed the blooms like plain sugar, 7-up/Sprite, or a professional product like Chryshal. I also add a few drops of bleach per vase that keeps bacteria from forming a black plug at the bottom of the stem and keeps the flower from sucking up water it needs. Recut the stems and refresh the water every 3 or 4 days to keep them fresh an extra 4 days or so. And, keeping them in the fridge at night if possible will extend the vase life of cut blooms. Sorry if this is too long and too much overkill on the subject. John...See MoreRoot a cutting of your favorite roses
Comments (7)Leslie, I'm glad you are finally getting rain there. We are expected to begin getting lots of rain over the next few days, and the temperature is expect to cool down considerably. Bernice, Jackie of Ohio put that eye on my Heritage rose around Halloween. You are right, it is spooky. It was actually June of this year that I began this rooting of Heritage. So, the cutting in the first picture above is now about 6 months old. I think by next spring, it will be ready to relocate. Right now I also have a cutting of Reine des Violettes that is doing nicely. Randy...See MoreWhat's your favorite fragrant rose for a cool mild wet climate?
Comments (5)That's a 'Welcoming Red' Lotus of classic form. Source: PondLotus.com https://pondlotus.com/collections/all/products/welcoming-red-lotus Last spring it was a little 1/4" x 6" root like tuber clipping on when I got it. Concerned it would not make it being so small. It put up a 3" diameter leaf. And then each leaf one bigger than the next, until 12". Then it started flowering with large flowers, one after the next. The fragrant flowers only last a few days each, but they keep being It was grown in 4" of mud in a 22" x 6 black plastic lotus tub. I buried two waterlily fertilizer sticks under the mud and put in a sunny spot. To overwinter, the lotus tub was submerged 6" under the surface of side pond intended for tadpoles. Once I find more mud, it is big enough now to consider planting into that pond....See MoreHelp me plan & please share your favorite fragrant purple/mauve roses
Comments (29)My gosh, you all have been so helpful! Thank you so much! Chris--I think I might try that garbage pale technique with a few of these OGR that sucker. Hopefully, that will help me keep them from growing into 8ft x 8ft hedges--although, I suppose if I ever wanted to put in a fence along the street, I could just plant some OGR instead! My only current OGR is Mme Hardy and she's kept well within a 3 ft radius these last 5 years. What you describe with Crecy sounds crazier than raspberries! I think I have my final list: Reine des Violettes Gabriel Oak (if I'm lucky enough to get him) Rose de Resht Young Lycidas La Belle Sultane Love Song Ebb Tide Twilight Zone Yolande D'Aragon Belle de Crecy **and maybe one day: Captaine John Ingram (he's in stock at Heirloom right now but I don't feel like paying that much for him) Maybe I'll plant some bluish and yellowish annuals in the first couple of years until the roses fill in....See Morehershigrl
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