Question for those that grow climbing pinkie
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Weird growth on my climbing pinkie
Comments (42)Well, since this thread is back at the top again, I might as well give an update. We removed the pinkie (I think I said that above) but left all the other roses. They all seem fine - the canes on the meidiland greened up as they matured and the knockouts look fine as well. (I realized that I planted them WAY too close together though - in only a year they've at least doubled in size!) We bushhogged the fields and had them sprayed with 2-4-D last week. That should take care of the multiflora in our fields. We still have some on the bank out by the end of our driveway and at least one of them is definitely infected with RRD (it's the one I sent samples to the state ag lab from). I can't spray that one because it's surrounded by plants I want to keep, so I guess I'll have to dig it out. Gotta get to that one of these days. Maybe I'll get out there with some aquanet and wilt-pruf to try to contain the mites before the hot weather. I decided not to spray any pesticides. I did put the wiltpruf on my roses before bushhogging - I hope it worked because it royally screwed up my blooms - on every single rose the blooms are messy and look half dead before they even open (buds that formed since I sprayed the wilt-pruf look normal again so I know it was the wilt-pruf that did it). I also tried covering them with painter's dropcloths and sheets during the actual bushhogging process but the wind kept blowing them askew (uncovering half the bush) so that was probably pointless. At this point, I'm just keeping an eye on things as best I can. I got ambitious this year and put in a big veggie garden which took longer to prepare than I thought - we just got the plants in 2 weeks ago - and so I'm way behind on my weeding/mulching in my landscape beds. (BTW, does anyone know why the leaves of my peppper plants are curling and turning yellow?) Hopefully I'll get to pay more attention to the roses soon. I'll have to, because in another couple days, it should be time to start beetle-picking.......See MorePeggy Martin vs Climbing Pinkie?
Comments (11)I also grow them both ... and I love them both. Robert's description of the differences between them is spot on. Though they sound almost identical in description, and may resemble each other in photos, the differences in person are completely apparent. Peggy Martin's canes have much more substance to them, so she tends to shoot up and arch over my fence. Climbing Pinkie is much more flexible, and I have her growing on an arch. I think CP would be happier if I put her on the fence, too. For disease resistance, Peggy Martin noses ahead of Climbing Pinkie. My Peggy Martin is 4 years old, I moved it last year, and it's had at least a cluster or two of flowers on it all year so far since it's SPECTACULAR spring flush. For me, it's Peggy Martin by a nose. Connie...See MoreTwo different Climbing Pinkies, Brass Band, and more
Comments (20)Aw, thanks, you guys. The weather here has really been cooperative. This has convinced me to get more roses, which means a five-year heat spell and drought is in order. Pippi, the peachy-apricot flowers are nasturtiums, either Apricot Trifle or Creamsicle. The pinkish flowers in the second to the last photo are Martha Washington pelargoniums in a barrel. Jenn, the chartreuse plant behind Cajun Rhythm is Golden Feverfew. Easy to grow from seed. I am not sure how tall it gets, but it's scaring me already. It gets little white daisy flowers. I am so pleased with the Showbiz bed- it's the first time I ever had an idea that worked out right, where the plants bloomed together and were the right height. And I'm so glad they didn't die when the irrigation system broke last year and I didn't notice for two months! Renee...See MoreClimbing Pinkie in shade
Comments (9)Thrip, I wouldn't know where to find the old paint...but do let me know if you ever try out the recipe yourselves. Wattleblossom, I'd never seen rabbits about either until about ten years ago when first Katoomba Golf Course then the Christian Convention next door to me left huge piles of felled tree trunks about, providing perfect, totally safe cover for rabbit metropolises to establish. The piles have finally been removed but the rabbit problem is now past help. The lands board (or whatever the appropriate body is called) offered a program of poisoned carrots which shut us all up as soon as we'd had a moment to think about our kids, dogs, etc. Rugosas seemed like the answer. I figured all those thorns would be a turn off for soft noses. Put in a hedge of Frau Dagma Hastrup, and singles of Fimbriata, Agnes and Alba. Fimbriata in particular seemed totally safe after putting up tall leafless stems thick with thorns with the foliage and flowers way up top out of rabbit reach. Ha! They chewed straight through the thorns till the stems broke and the greenery hung down comfortably within reach. My rugosas, like the rest of the roses, are now behind chicken wire....See More- 13 years ago
13 years agoClairtx, that's a beautiful example of what Climbing pinkie can do in the landscape!
My climbing pinkie leans on a chain link fence. As you might be able to tell in the photo below, with age, it will develope some fairly stiff canes. However, the young canes are very flexible and very near thornless making it easy to work with. You could drive a heavy piece of rebar into the ground and tie the young canes to it to get it started being a draping pillar rose.
The beauty of this rose is that it has so many possibilities for use. Antique rose emporium winds the young canes around and through a cedar rail fence. Roses of this type bloom even more on lateral canes so if you find something to use for attaching it to the fence in an espalier fashion that would be pretty too.
It can get to be a big rose, but is not a monster rose in that you can easily get in there to work with it and cut back any canes that are not part of the design you want.
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You can build an umbrella trellis yourself, out of rebar, and lower the cost a lot. Here's the one I built. Mine is welded, but you can put it together with wire.
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