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canadian_rose

12 years ago

Ooooh!!! I love your WS2000!!!!! Sigh Drool Wow!!

I can't wait to see your Eden blooming - you will share??? :)

Thank you!!
Carol

seil zone 6b MI

12 years ago

Congratulations! I can't wait for mine to start blooming!

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This is something that required planning last year. Soil preparation and a pruning/deadheading strategy. Seriously. You have 4 weeks for a rebloom. Most heavily petaled roses in zone 6 require 6 - 8 weeks to rebloom. The best exhibitors who target roses to bloom at a certain time (for example, my society's show is 9/17), pruned their roses the 3rd week of July. Also, I don't know how old your plants are (meaning, how long they have been in the ground). If they are only 1 - 2 years in the ground, they haven't reached full maturity, and many varieties want to grow more roots that blooms. What can you try? Certainly deadheading, old blooms don't help. Watering. Maybe an alfalfa tea (search). I'm not a bloom buster fan, I didn't use them much when I exhibited. Dr. Earth has a hose-end liquid fertilizer, I bought a bottle at Home Depot earlier this spring. Espoma also has some liquid fertilizers, you can try "Bloom!". The dry organics would take too long to break down. Good luck.

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It seems like Quick Silver, Violet's Pride, and Love Song are rapidly becoming a formidable trio of lavender roses: "The Three Musketeers, The Pale Purple Crusaders, The Regalia of Nostalgia." The more lavender roses the better, especially when you get older and find yourself becoming increasingly sentimental. The color lavender glows next to any other color, except perhaps orange, maybe that contrast works, too. Thank you everyone, for all your input. I'm sold on all thee lavenders. It seems Quick Silver and Love Song have the best formed and colored blooms, while Violet's Pride is the most fragrant and more pink hued of the three. I suspect the bush form of Love Song noted by Texas Ben is the most impressive/rose bed centered of the three. The photos that Texas Ben and Diane (thank you for them), provided, give me weak-knees! Lavender roses have surely come a long way since Angel Face. Moses

dublinbay z6 (KS)
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12 years ago

Thought I might update this thread a bit.

I showed Mortimer Sackler freshly opening above. Here it is fully opened. Lovely, isn't it!

And today, I have another winner to report: new bloom on third day--Mayflower. Surprisingly, it wasn't first this year--but still a pretty rose.
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In the next few days, I have a half-dozen yellow minis that should bloom, and a couple Double Delights, maybe a Peter Mayle. And who knows what else. The pace does start to pick up now, doesn't it.

And here is one last beauty that started blooming yesterday--might be EF Young Clematis--or maybe Mr. President clematis. Can't remember, but I do enjoy it!

And by the way, for future reference, now that Shakespeare 2000 has been open for several days, its color is closer to my picture above--with noticeable purplish-pink tones in it like the picture shows. The ruby red (which I failed to capture) was there only for the first day or two.

Enjoy! And let's see some of your spring beauties.

Kate

TNY78

12 years ago

Kate those are beautiful, especially WS2000! Its funny that we have some of the same roses but they're blooming at different times. You said my Eutin is way ahead of yours, yet my knockouts and clematis are just sitting there with uncolored buds. Wonder why that is? hmm...

Tammy

kathy9norcal

12 years ago

Beautiful blooms. I think it is really funny--such a beautiful rose with such a funny name--Mortimer Sackler!

queenbee_1

12 years ago

Your picture of Mortimer --excites me... He was a Christmas gift from my son--Can't wait until I have blooms... beautiful pictures.

dublinbay z6 (KS)
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12 years ago

Canadian Rose--yes, I will share photos when Eden climber blooms. I adore her also.

TNY--when you and I figure out Mother Nature's secrets of blooming, we will get rich--but til then, we will just have to conclude that she in a contrarion, don't you think? Tis odd, the reverse pattern.

kathy--if I remember correctly, I read that they had an auction for rich folks --they could bid for the naming right to the rose. A Mrs. Sackler wanted a special birthday present for her husband Mortimer, so she paid an outrageous sum (I forget how much) for the naming rights--and named it after her husband Mortimer Sackler as her birthday present to him. (Still a strange name, isn't it!)

queenbee--I predict you will love Mortimer, but just a word of warning. If I'm remembering correctly, Mortimer didn't do much the first couple years. Third year his blooming really took off.

Thanks for all your comments everybody.

Kate

Krista_5NY

12 years ago

They are all beautiful. William Shakespeare 2000 is one of my favorite reds.

The clematis is wonderful.

serenasyh

12 years ago

How Gorgeous Kate! Wowza, so many blooms!

In global warming times, my tea rose yes, in Zone 5!!!! survived with fully green canes, not a single dieback! Roses kept breaking dormancy constantly during winter. Then starting at the end of February I got fully developing leaves, lol! I am about ready to post the roses that I failed to post in terms of last-blooming and my first one to fully open for 2012 is Clementina Carboniera (April 3)which is bursting with buds... March 30th was actually when the bud was in "tulip form". Smells just like my beloved long gone Gemini (sob!).....but the form of course is just like a classic tea rose. Looks like I can test more teas in my garden now, lol! I went and change my climate zone too... Weather's been crazy!!! Had to put on the Air Conditioning to 3 days ago...It's cool and sunny now, but it was starting to get roasty awhile back, lol! Everything is loaded with buds so I'm going to have wazoos of lopsided blooms coming soon, hahaha!

leezen4u

12 years ago

Kate, fantastic flowers and pics! Love the WS 2000 color. The clematis is a perfect purple complement too!

Lee

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