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msjam2

17 years ago

Livin Easy

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Mme. Isaac Periere

Louise Odier

Jeanne Lajoie

Pat Austin

Chrysler Imperial, Molineux, Distant Drums

Mister Lincoln

Julia Child, Sharifa Asma

Heirloom

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Pat Austin- notice the bloom is upright!? Amazing.

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msjam2
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17 years ago
Abe Darby

Golden Celebration, blackspot all over!

Just Joey is huge- she's about 4 ft across! She's on fortuniana and she survived our weird winter.

Heirloom, she lost a lot of leaves from blackspot.

Two friends
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Columbine

I was a bit worried about these hydrangeas and the freeze last week.
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aprille
17 years ago
ah manna for the soul! gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous! beautiful pictures - thank you so much for sharing your beauties. Heard you guys had snow in some parts - my mother was so disappointed she missed out on that as she's out of the country right now - she's also missing her spring flush poor thing and my Step Dad does not get her request to take pictures of the roses and email them to her!

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Ditto what Kevin says about leaving 6" or so of stems of late-risers when cutting things back in the fall - for me, that's largely the hardy hibiscuses, which don't re-appear here until June! Without the reminder of a few inches of old stems, there'd be no way to tell where they are. Actually, I leave a lot of clean-up to the spring, only cutting down things that might carry disease over in the foliage (e.g. peonies....), or that have seedheads that will deposit unwanted seedlings, or that have tall coarse stems that will be unattractive and messy when flattened by snow and wind. So it's pretty easy to see where most things are in spring simply by the mounds of dead foliage. The remains of the old foliage also helps protect the emerging new growth from the sometimes wildly fluctuating bouts of warm and cold spring temperatures! It's far too early here to be doing a bare-earth clean-up yet. A few 'bad' insect pests (mostly snails!) will overwinter in the foliage, but so do 'good' insects; on the whole, the balance favors the 'good' ones - but the situation might be different in your climate.
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brother_cadfael
17 years ago
msjam2,

Your roses are beautiful! Especially the UPRIGHT 'Pat Austin'!

Thanks for the inspiration,
BC:)
msmisk
17 years ago
Thanks for posting the great pics, msjam. I'm in your area and I've experienced an unusual amount of blackspot for this early in the season. Of course, I hadn't sprayed at all until today, so it's my own fault ! Your roses seem to be ahead of mine. I have lots of blooms on About Face, Hot Chocolate and Iceberg, but the rest are just buds getting ready to burst.

Carol
msrose
17 years ago
You know, I don't think I've ever seen a green lizard here. I grew up seeing them, but since I've lived in the DFW area, all I've seen is the brown ones.

I just love your columbine. Did you buy it around here?

Laurie
missflippins
17 years ago
Your photos make one feel they could reach out and pick one! Lovely, lovely, lovely. thanks for the treat.
kathy9norcal
17 years ago
Great picture show! Lots of fun.
Kathy
jean_ar
17 years ago
wow, I love these bush photos.Them roses are gorgeous,gorgeous.Happy to see a photo of Jeanne Lajoie as I just got one in January and wondering how big its going to get.How old is yours?

Jean
lesdvs9
17 years ago
All your roses are wonderful, bush photos as well as close ups. I'm glad you did both, that's great, thanks for sharing all of those:) Beautiful roses, black spot problems or not, I really enjoyed all of them and the lizards!
Leslie
msjam2
Original Author
17 years ago
Thank you everyone.

Carol, some of my roses looks really bad because of blackspot, I'm seriously considering spraying them this weekend, the big three are GC, Heirloom and Sharifa.

Laurie, that columbine was already there when we moved in, I don't know where the previous owners bought it from. I'm glad I kept it, it's so pretty. I've never seen that green lizard before yesterday, my cat drove them up the wall lol. I don't know if lizards are territorial but there seems to be one in every rose bed.

Jean, I got that Jlj from Melva, I don't know how old it is, I'll ask her. She's absolutely a beauty.

Leslie, thanks! I appreciate looking at bush shots when members posts them too. :)
elgrillo
17 years ago
Great photos! Pat Austin and the columbines are just beautiful. Thanks.

We may get snow tomorrow, and surely a slight freeze here, but my columbines are trying to bloom, and one is in full bloom. A few rosebuds are on that didn't get killed during the hard freeze last week.

Gary
carla17
17 years ago
Wow do you have some beauties. I love your Columbine. Pat Austin sure is a sight I would like to see here.

Thank you,
Carla
krazyjorge0424
17 years ago
Beautiful Pics!! Where did you get Just joey on fortuniana?
patricianat
17 years ago
Now, that's a garden!
msjam2
Original Author
17 years ago
Just Joey came from a local nursery in Orlando. :)

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