Emily Carr Rose is Growing Like a Weed
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Comments (5)thanks all! I really wanted a pink hedge as I plant to plant tons of yellow rannaculus in front of the hedge. I Love the contrast of the yellow and pink and flowers. :) I chose harlow car because it is the color I wanted and is noted to be highly scented....See MoreEmily Rose
Comments (2)Thanks! That worked. It turns out to be a David Austin shrub rose from 1992....See MoreDoes Anyone Grow Emily?
Comments (13)You're welcome Ingrid. I wish it wasn't prickly cucumber! I wouldn't wish that evil on anyone. Even though the seeds are poisonous to humans, squirrels and rats ADORE them, planting them all over. Digging those tubers is a REAL chore! I've honestly unearthed some the size of an American V-8 engine! Fortunately, this hill has VERY loose soil. In tougher situations, the ONLY way to eliminate a large, well established plant is to mix up a bucket of the strongest Round Up concentration the label suggests. I know, none of us WANTS to use it, but for this purpose it is absolutely necessary. Untangle a good length of the tendrils. Carefully wind them around inside the bucket, taking caution not to kink or break the stems. Leave the foliage it to provide as much surface absorption area as possible. Fill the bucket with the Round Up to cover all of the plant growth wound inside it. Place the bucket securely where it won't fall or easily be knocked over. You may cover it with Saran Wrap or a plastic bag if you wish to keep critters out of it. After a day or so, the cucumber will have really absorbed quite a bit of the Round Up. Leave it there as long as you want. There were several coming up through the large, established Banksiae banksiae growing under and at the western edge of our rear deck. Both the Banksiae and the cucumber were growing up through the slatted deck flooring. Between the density of the Banksiae and the slippery slope I'd have to work on, there was no other way to get the cucumbers out of the Banksiae. I set old three pound coffee cans of Round Up on the deck with them wound up inside them, covered loosely with Saran until the danged things were obviously dead. It worked! Compared to trying to dig the tubers out of the Banksiae, it was MUCH easier removing the dead cucumber vines from the Banksiae. Kim...See MoreRosa 'Emily Carr'
Comments (10)Northspruce, I very much like both 'Hope for Humanity' and 'Emily Carr', and would have a hard time selecting one over the other for their particular traits. HFH comes out with very large clusters of smallish, but intensely dark rich red, almost blackish at times, the plant grows tall and upright ... sometimes the canes can break off at the base. EC is too new for me to comment on it's growing habits, but the rich red semi double flowers are larger and more Hybrid T like, and again, are also very long lasting. At this point, I couldn't select a favorite! With my spring move to just outside the Edmonton area (Spruce Grove) I haven't done much rose breeding this summer ... but, I did concentrate on my progress with hardy recurrent yellows and peach and apricot shades. Next year, I intend to get back into the full swing of things and work with my most promising hybrids. My camera bummed out after five years, so indeed I'll start shopping for a new one! Terry...See Moreweeper_11
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