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More multies - hope not too long

16 years ago

I hoped to get back to this after my last set, but always seem to be so much to do like rose photography!:) I keep taking pictures, but hard to keep them all in order as I download them faster than I can file them. Anyway, here we go! Hope not too many.

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Hope you like them.

Pauline - Vancouver Island

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jean_ar
16 years ago
wow, thats some gorgeous photos.Love Heirloom,mine is not blooming right now, and I love your 2nd photo of the striped one.Its gorgeous.Good Life I nevr heard of before,but it sure is a pretty thing.I have Evelyn, too,and had a bunch of blooms on it today,but,got busy and forgot to take a picture.One of these days,I want to get Just Joey,too.Thanks for sharing your beauties.

Jean
carla17
16 years ago
Pauline, I wish I had computer smell a vision, Heirloon is so beautiful and I've seen and smelled one in person once. Your roses look so happy. I love the blooms.
Looking forward to more.

Carla
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pacnwgrdngirl
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Simply beautiful Pauline! I have to ask, What is your spray routine? I have moved to WA from California and am not yet accustomed to the major fungus issues we have here. I am a block from the Sound. Would LOVE to hear what your routine is! Your roses are just so beautiful and healthy looking!
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lesdvs9
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Gorgeous roses Pauline, wow. Your photos are wonderful. I had both Heirloom and Just Joey on my lists last fall and dropped them thinking they wouldn't do well here in the heat. Looking at your photos makes me wish I had at least tried. Ferdinand Pichard is a beautiful rose, that might be the one striped rose I could want to try:)
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ramblinrosez7b
16 years ago
wow! More gorgeous roses, you take some wonderful pictures and your Just Joey is so pretty, I had one but it died last year and never got around to replacing it. I really like that Ferdinand Pichard too.
moodyblue
Original Author
16 years ago
Just lost a long post directed to Adrienne. Grrrrrrrrr! now I will have to re-write making it as brief as possible.

For fungus, I use a product called Funginex, a systemic fungicide, which has now been taken of the Canadian market, may have enough to last me for next year. As I do not know where I will go from there.

Anyhow, If I was you I would get the most recommended Fungicide you can get hold of.

This was my routine for last year. I only sprayed twice in the beginning of the season (though I did intend to keep it up) Anyhow I groomed my roses every morning, deadheading when colour changed and petals were not quite ready to fall. Any sign, which was virtually nothing through the main season, of black spot on leaves I would remove them at the same time.

We mulch with compost in the Fall and in the Spring we spread it around the rose beds. I fertilize with granular rose fertilizer once per month and try and use a liquid fertlizer every couple of weeks. I honestly do not keep this up as long as I intend too, but that is the regime as far as the feed and spray go. I do not use an insecticide (I used to, but not anymore) Any aphids, I squish with my rubber gloves on. :) then I hope nature will take care of the rest, I also hand pick off caterpillers.

I honestly garden here against all odds, to cut a long story short after losing many roses to deer in the past, we have now moved whatever survived all in a NOW deer fenced garden in the back. And I am literally nursing them back to what they should be - a lot of TLC for sure. The other big obsticle is that our property is surounded by a dense band of very tall evergreens, cedars, firs etc. so because of this, we get absolutely no sun during the winter and minimal in early Spring and late fall. But loads in the summer time. We also have springs on our property which make it very damp and boggy in parts, all bad news for black spot, yet we manage and have had a lot of compliments on the health.
So wish you all the very best with yours Adrienne and a big welcome to the North West.:) It really is a beautiful part of the world. Although we do not have an ocean view because of our trees - we really would not want to give up our privacy, but we are only 2 and 1/2 blocks away from the ocean(as we call it, but it is actually the Georgia Straights) We live on the east coast of Vancouver Island, right opposite Vancouver. Our daughter and fam live on the mainland.

Anyway, hope this helps, will probably put some pics up of our back garden some time to show, how we are constantly digging up more lawn to make way for roses - just like it is encouraged on this forum!! I need to give my head a shake.

Thanks all of you for you lovely comments - It is sure nice to share ones roses and gardens via this wonderful world of photography. I realy enjoy seeing other peoples pics. It is a wonderful tool to show us all what is out there!!

Cheers all!
Pauline - Vancouver...
devon_gardener
16 years ago
Pauline, I still think you post some of the most "Romantic"
pictures on this forum. I feel like falling in love when I see
them. Just Joey and Golden Celebration look especially
good. Thank you Pauline. And thank you for enabling me
to get Pretty Jessica, along with Patrick. Like I said before,
you are this site's "Gentle Enabler".
moodyblue
Original Author
16 years ago
Gee thanks Devon for your lovely comments. I never read that I was a "gentle enabler" before, drat! I must have missed it!:smile - Thanks anyway, I was dying to be an enabler - Yeah! Now I am!
Cheers! and thanks again.
Pauline

hmmmmmmm! now where is Adrienne?

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