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mashamcl

14 years ago

Is this the last hurray before winter?

Rouge Royale

Secret Garden Musk Climber

Angel Face

Sharifa Asma and Ebb Tide

Two Imposters in bloom

Sheila's Perfume

Ebb Tide

Heritage

Margo Koster

Elle

Masha

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iris_gal
14 years ago
Without a proper winter my roses don't know when to quit!
No rest for gardeners in mild areas of Calif.

Like that look Elle is showing.

You've got both Wm.Shksp.2000 & Rouge Royale! I'll be interested in any comments on the 2.
phatboyrose
14 years ago
Masha, your roses are just STUNNING I really like SHEILA'S PERFUME & HERITAGE. Thanks for sharing, hope to see more before Winter arrives.
Harold
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Photo1 - actually your neighbours junk piles are really neat by British standards but screening them out is a good idea. Do your local laws allow a fence of 2 metres or so? If so you could try for bamboo panels or take a leaf out of Keiran Egan's fence design. If not consider either a neat hedge (is beech any good in Sweden?) or planting to create an informal effect that does the same job eg. a stand of bamboo, select trees. *Just noticed you can't do much of the above. Look for friends with old conifers that they dislike. Offer to remove them for free. Carefully transplant and then prune back hard to create bonsai look ;-) Photo2- In some Japanese gardens you will see perspective tricks played with forests like this. Smaller planting is put in front of the pines to trick the eye into see a bigger more dramatic forest farther away. Another way of reforming the 'wall effect' is to put in a feature such as a teahouse. This should be in a good spot to review the rest of the garden from and be good-looking in it's own right. Photo 3- The path doesn't really go anywhere so feels odd. The lantern isn't too bad and if well placed with plants should look right. Planting is a bit new but do remove the labels. I haven't ever seen a japanese garden photo with labels on the plants (sometimes boards to tell visitors things but not plant tags). I keep my tags in a notebook with a sketch plan.
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organicgardendreams
14 years ago
Masha, wow, Rouge Royal in the first photo looks fantastic!

Sheila's Perfum is also very, very pretty.

Again, I admire how you combine your roses with companion plants, in this photo thread especially Margo Koster with the lilac small flowers. Can you tell me what companion plant that is? I am always on the hunt for plants that go well with the roses and new combinations!

Thanks for posting!
jim1961 / Central Pennsylvania / Zone 6
14 years ago
Nice roses Masha! Hopefully you get more before the cold sets in...

JIM
mashamcl
Original Author
14 years ago
Thank you, everybody!

Iris_gal, RR and WS2000 are very different:-). WS2000 is an all-round great rose, great bush shape, clean foliage to the ground, very prolific, fast rebloom. The only things to complain about is fragrance which is not very strong, short stems and short vase life.
RR is a typical HT bush - a collection of vigorous thick straight canes growing in all directions (like Mr. Lincoln), very sparsely foliated. Quite ugly, in fact. The foliage is never clean for me. It doesn't want to bloom in spring, it likes the heat. However, the blooms it sets in the heat fry very fast, often before the buds open. The plus side is the blooms are very strongly fragrant, have nice cutting stems and last forever (well, upwards of a week) in a vase. It is a perfect cutting rose which in my opinion should be grown somewhere out of the way and all blooms should be cut for the house. Sorry to be so long:-)

Christina, thank you for your nice comments. The little flowers are a geranium which also has a bonus of grey leaves which go nicely with purple. It is a tiny plant and I don't know if it will live through the winter:-(. I am afraid I am acquiring a mini collection of geraniums too, thank goodness my husband doesn't know...

Masha
mashamcl
Original Author
14 years ago
Here are some full bush shots of RR and WS2000. I try to cover RR's naked legs with daisies, so there is quite a bit of cane hidden behind them.

WS2000

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RR

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iris_gal
14 years ago
Excellent information!

I have been around these forums for a few years and that is exactly the kind of info I have searched for to narrow my choice for a Mr. Lincoln replacement.

Thank you.
canadian_rose
14 years ago
I love your Rouge Royale! Sigh.

I got one this year and only had 2 blooms. Granted, they were lovely, but all the leaves were covered in rust. I've never had a rose get rust here except this one. So if it survives this winter and blooms next summer, I think I'll take your advice and place the pot somewhere out of the way and cut the flowers for inside.

Carol

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