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Your top 5 favorite places to visit for the roses
Comments (17)My favorite 5 1.'The Florentine' which is the Old Rose garden at Morcom Amphiteatre of Roses' on the corner of Olive Street and Oakland Ave. in Oakland, California. Walk down the long staircase and look at the dates of introduction on the signs, inside the oval stone-walled area. If the dates are between 1804 through the late 1900's you're in the right place.. I love this park because in summer I enjoy walking on the outer paths where it is green and leafy with a few acres of tall trees..In early spring the Banksiae are in bloom among the trees, and also the wild roses we got from Miriam Wilkins estate. There is a gigantic rose that has been there for more than a decade, that I think must be R. brunonii and a couple R. moschata planted by the Noisettes. There are c. 2 dozen different cultivars of Pernetiana roses, and Tea and Chinas. a huge Catos Cluster' which on Manettii has grown to be more than 18 feet tall. It's a great place to ramble.. There are two modern rose gardens, too and a reflecting pool. Because by city law, the roses cannot be sprayed with anything, I go there to get cuttings from some of the healthier roses for our area... with my permission slip on hand. 2. Vintage gardens home garden. My idea of heaven, especially the south side of the house garden where two 25'+ tall 'Long John Silver' rosebushes bloom showing huge silvery white powder puff like roses, past those are many of the once blooming roses including 'The Garland' which are planted in a lush grassy area planted with other bushes, purple clematis, foxglove, increasing the beauty to a crescendo. 3. San Jose Heritage Rose garden. I do wish it had a shaded area with seats, and a drinking fountain and closer bathroom facilities for the aged, and the infirm. I've gotten heat exhaustion there more than once. 4.Lovely Luanne has a beautiful rose garden. Her yearly "whiffing event" is coming up soon. We've been neighbors for several years, in Oakland, and now in Richmond, California.. It takes a beautiful heart to grow beautiful roses...which she does.. 5. The Berkeley Botanical Garden' in California. I love their R. odorata and apothecary roses, and R. arvensis all planted near the Chinese Medicinal garden where R. rugosa and R. chinensis spontaneaa (sp?) are growing. Their R. odorata is covered with hundreds of large saucer like golden-yellow blossoms and blooms between March and April depending on how warm or cold its' been. It was more than 30 feet tall the last time I ooohed and ahhheed over it. I've been a tiny bit miffed at the folks who run that garden for their planting vivid red Florabundas ("for color") in their Old Rose Garden as I think it misleads the public. Theres' not a single Gallica in the Old Rose Garden and many of them, with the Hybrid Chinas would bloom well up on the hills where at least some frost and winter chill comes in winter. Lux....See MoreWhat are your top 5 favorite alpines?
Comments (2)This is like picking among one's children but the 5 'must haves' for me are: Moss Campion Yellow Dryads Roseroot Creeping Beardtongue Purple saxifrage They all have nice flowers but , most importantly, the plants have good texture and character throughout the growing season. All native alpines to North America...See MoreTop 5 favorite Tillandsias
Comments (25)I think basically what one does is not take the pups off the mother plant and the plant grows by pups maturing, flowering, having pups which have pups which continue until they break apart somehow (by humans doing it or by, say, falling out of a tree). If they are a kind that do not easily clump (I understand that funckiana is like this), you can arrange them together and perhaps use fishing line (since is can be nearly invisible) to make the into a clump. As for favorites... funckiana, heteromorpha, and similar plants, because they remind me of pine trees and visiting the forest, which I don't get to do often enough. Xerographica and similar gray ball-shaped ones (like chiapensis) because they're... loners maybe, lone wolves, and I like Mexico, too. Whacky looking ones (bulbosa). Whatever is growing well at the time or being surprising (lots of ionantha flowered this last winter, and two what may be filifolia, which was very cool). While I take pictures of all my new plants with their labels for later identification, I don't always recall their names. I should work harder on that....See Morewhat are your Top 5 Mango varieties?
Comments (132)this is my Florigon i got the seed from someone in Fla a couple of years ago. its growing very nicely, but is getting large for the container. it will go in ground in the spring. i am putting it close to the house on a south wall, in hopes it will last next winter. i havbe about 8 seedlings, most from Ataulfo/champagne from the store bought fruit, but, also have Neelum and Coconut cream. i will wait till those get larger, but a few of the Ataulfo are in ground, in hopes of a miracle that they survive this winter... if one does, there is a very good chance it will survive the next few winters, unless we get a really hard freeze which does happen every few years. the climate here is a bit strange... i would say out of a 10 year span, we will get 3 years of no freeze, ... another 3 or 4 of just hitting 29 to 32F, one or 2 hitting 27F and maybe one below that at 24 or 25F. i am thinking on those days i can build a box around it with a frost cloth. being near the house helps a lot with the bricks re-radiating heat at night. ... so ... to me, a seedling that can be 3 degrees F more hardy, can mean the world in the chance of getting fruit one day....See Moremurahilin
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