The "Spring Flush"
ingrid_vc so. CA zone 9
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Melissa Northern Italy zone 8
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Comments (66)I remember this thread. I looked at it recently when I was researching Rosarium Uetersen, (Seminloe Wind). These photos still take my breath away. I would like to see more of this garden certainly! Like summer 2010 photos! I'm not sorry it came up again! Sandra Here is a link that might be useful: Roses, Color, and Light...See MoreThe Spring Flush Continues
Comments (14)Beth, MC does have potential. Please give it a bit more time and it will give you a beautiful flush. I will continue to watch it to see how it does with repeat throughout this summer. Ingrid, I am blown away by Dick Clark's perfomance this year. Talking about instant repeat. It just keeps pumping out new buds. This is one rose that does well on own root. HalloBlondie, well I will look forward to seeing your roses when your spring flush arrives. By that time, my spring flush is most likely over. Hope you will have a wonderful one! Have you had a lot of rain within the past month? If so, you should get a bountiful flush when it arrives....See MoreStill Waiting for that Spring Flush
Comments (28)Our roses are on schedule, with the very first warm climate roses just coming into bloom, along with what little of R. hugonis was spared by the drought and cane girdler. Our wisteria has also bloomed normally. We lost the entire flowering of one of our two Ceanothus thyrsiflorus repens, a big plant (the other is in bloom now, late), and the large double white Lady Banks on its pergola also got well frozen and looks like it won't be blooming this year at all, though the older hardened growth is green. The double yellow L.B. in the trees has some flowers. Last year's drought and this winter's late freeze did things, though I'm not always sure what. I've seen no sign of box moth this year, and think it should have shown up by now: I know that last year I was spraying for it in March or early April. I have my fingers crossed! Also it appears that the porcupine that ravaged the garden for a year may be gone....I'm not sure...but I devoutly hope that it couldn't take that week of hard frost and snow and headed south to warmer climes. All in all, for such a hard year as 2017 was, the garden looks tolerably well. We've had unseasonably warm and dry weather the last two or three weeks, and heaven knows I hate stable high pressure systems, but am hoping spring will return for a while yet. The plants are full of sap and the first roses are just coming into flower. Ingrid, I jumped into your post to answer bart's description of what's going on in her Italian garden: I hope you don't mind my hijack. I hope you get some blooms soon, and some springlike weather! Winter was long, long, long here. We all need that sense of returning life, and the joy and delicacy of roses....See MoreSpring flush in Tennessee
Comments (40)Lily, you and family need to drive to Grayton Beach and eat at the Red Bar. It's kid friendly if you go early. (packed with families) It is well known for the food! The crab cakes are famous. You just stay on 98 (same road as Destin) go straight until you see a sign on the right for Grayton Beach. Turn right and go about 1/2 mile and you will see it. Google it and read the reviews. It is a 23 mile drive, but quick because it's highway. I think your hubby would really appreciate it!!!! then, you can leave there and run to Seaside. It is only about 2 miles from Grayton. All right there on 98. The Truman Show was filmed there. These are not my pictures!! Such a fun place. Our families would rent a house here every year....See Moreingrid_vc so. CA zone 9
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