New Canadian 2015 Roses? - Never Alone and Canada Blooms?
prairie_northrose (3b north of Calgary AB, Canada)
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Comments (43)Thanks Brandon! I do find nursery roses usually much stronger and better established than my cheapo Walmart roses. I was fortunate to find Winnipeg Parks at Walmart for $12.97, however it was apparent they were dug out from the ground, roots hacked (some worse than others), and planted in pots this year, I'll probably give them some extra protection over the winter. Calgaryplants.com has WP for $24.95, but there's a $9.95 shipping cost for the Calgary area (I was thinking of trying them out as they also have some things on sale right now). A few garden centers will have things on sale later on, but limited selection. Last year, I got 3 roses on sale for $20 each at Golden Acre at the end of the season. Blue Grass has roses for $28.99. If you're a member of the Calgary Horticultural Society, you can get 10% off regular priced plants at many nurseries. Ostrich, that Canadian Tire sounds great, I'll have to check it out one day. I find CT roses are pretty good, I noticed mostly sourced from Bylands, which is the same as many nurseries. I've always known Morden Blush to be a pale rose. Yes I do find heat fades blooms. Plus most photos online (mine included) are of blooms in their prime, which for me is only 10-20% of it's bloom life. You might like Morden Belle or Morden Centennial more. Even John Davis. I do like how Morden Belle looks good in all stages. Depends on what you are looking for. There are a few Morden Centennials around here that look lovely. My understanding (from hydrangeas) is acidic soil creates blue tones in blooms, and alkaline soil creates red tones: http://apps.caes.uga.edu/gafaces/?public=viewStory&pk_id=4542...See MoreRoses & Stuff #3 (2015)
Comments (168)Looks really good, Jim. How do you make your home-made compost? I make mine in the shade, just dump stuff on the ground ... it's NOT stinky. I'm going to get all the leaves I can this fall from the neighbors. Chicago Botanical Gardens' roses are ridiculously healthy, they use leaf-compost. When I took that soil-chemistry test, it stated the highest content of leaves is made out of carbon. Carbon (brown stuff) is good for the compost pile, a bit of nitrogen (green stuff) is good to speed up the decomposition. My most-blooms were when I used EarthGro Organic humus & manure ($1.26 for a 40 lb. bag from Walmart) to winter-protect, and in the spring there's zillions of buds ... way better than chicken manure. Here's a review on Walmart website for EarthGro bagged Humus & manure: 5.0 stars 4/1/2012 by oklahomagirl1989 "I made a flowerbed last year and planted 2 tiny roses into it...the flowerbed consisted of nothing BUT Humus and Manure Mix from Wal Mart.....my Roses have exploded with blooms during last years brutally hot summer when everything else died.....and since then, they have at least quadruplet in size....I couldn't be more happier about this product, in fact, I recommend it to all of my customers, since I work in the Garden Center and I always get asked about which soil is the best. Right now we are sold out of it and I am a bit upset myself because I want to buy lots more of it.....I would recommend this product to ANYONE at ALL TIMES!!!!! Here are the buds on Sweet Promise in spring when I winter-protected with EarthGro humus & manure (sold at HomeDepot and Walmart). Yay to the power of humus !! More spring buds on Francis Blaise when I used bagged humus & manure to winter-protect. Well-rotted horse manure is good too, but it's a real pain to scoop that into my car. I didn't winter-protect last year, since my kid's 6th-grade gifted-program was stressful for me. Growing healthy roses is easier than feeding a picky kid. I put money in her lunch-account, but she refuses to buy lunch from school, so I pack her lunch everyday. How do you pack lunch for a kid who doesn't like cheese, and is allergic to peanuts? Any ideas? Thanks....See MoreRoses & Stuff #7 (2015)
Comments (98)That compost looks good, 3 yards for $60 is great bargain. Here the cypress mulch is $40 per yard, that's years ago. Thanks, Sam, for the pics of flowers in your garden. I don't have Heritage nor MayFlower so I enjoy seeing them. I love the deep colors of your cosmos. I used to have cosmos but the colors were faded pink in my alkaline clay, and I'm allergic to them (cosmos is related to ragweed). Wilbur is a delight to see, I wish I have a miniature stuffed-animal that looks like Wilbur to enjoy. My kid is into cats so I will have buy her a stuffed cat. We gave away her BIG stuffed-cat, but I'll get her a tiny one for her upcoming birthday. Your Mayflower is so big & lots of petals on that one. "Greasy" is good stuff. Salmon bits is greasy (high in Omega-3 fatty acids), but that gave 120+ blooms per flush on Bailey's Young Lycidas. To get shiny & glossy foliage, the fatty acids in cracked corn really helped with the shine on the leaves. To make such BIG blooms with zillion petals, more energy is required. What gives energy? Chemicals alone? No, I can't imagine sending someone to work with a drink laced with chemicals. I would send something substantial: fats & protein & fiber keep a person full, and it helps to give energy for roses too. Alfalfa is high in protein, fiber, plus some fat. Fish meal is high in protein, high in fat. Cracked corn is very good in producing zillion petals: that's high in protein, fat, fiber, and minerals. Red-lava-rock is solid, if there's acidic rain to break down, same with pea-gravel: solid minerals, if there's rain to break down. Fish meal is fast to break down, that works great for alkaline-tap for Bailey in LA. Fish-emulsion is even faster, since it has acid added. Acidic Cracked corn and alfalfa pellets broke down too fast in acidic rain, and gave my roses black spots, due to the release of acids. For acidic rain, I use ALKALINE & slower-released like red-lava-rock for potassium, and pea-gravel for a vast array of minerals. Below is Excellenz Von Schubert that Seaweed in CA grew In full-sun, fertilized with fish emulsion. Seaweed uses Gardner & Bloom organic potting soil for EVS rose, it blooms lots for her, despite her low annual rainfall of 11" per year:...See MoreRoses & Stuff #11 (2015)
Comments (69)Lovely roses everyone!! Wise Portis has such a wonderful color!! Double Knockout looks great!! Straw - I just throw the frozen tomatoes into a bit pot with a bit of water on the bottom, so the tomatoes don't scorch. Then I boil them forever. The skins float up, so I take them off (my mom takes the frozen tomatoes and holds them under warm water, and the skins just slide off. But I think the skin probably gets extra vitamins into the sauce, since most vitamins are in the skin. Then when it's boiling nicely and the skins are gone, I add a couple of tsps of sugar and a lot of oregano. When it's a nice consistency for spreading on pizza, I use it or freeze it. It's pretty easy, and tastes delicious!! Winterizing pots - I wrote this up awhile ago, since I've had so many requests as to my methods. Here it is. :) _________________________________ I overwinter my 50 roses in large pots in my garage with the 2 cars. LOL Three car garage. Here's what I do: - I keep deadheading until it's time for them to go into the garage. - I keep feeding them and watering well until it's time for them to go into the garage. -Then when the temperature gets to be about -6C I cut all the leaves off at the point they join the heavier stem. I don't cut any height off of the plant. - At this point I water them really, really well and move them by dolly into the garage. - I cover them with thick blankets, layers of flannel sheets or sleeping bags. - My garage is insulated. - Then I leave them alone in the dark. Doesn't matter if the garage door is opened and closed. - Around January, I look and see if they're dried out a bit. - If they are, then I water each rose 1/2 cup. - I repeat this every month. - As the weather starts warming up, I take off some blankets - so they don't start making new growth in the heat. - Any new growth should be broken off as you would thorns - just push them to the side, and they'll fall off. - If you have only a few pots - you can start taking them outside during the day when it gets about 5 C outside. Bring them inside until the night temperature doesn't drop below 5C. - Remember to water really well once you take them outside. - If you have a lot - then either wait until night tempreatures are 5C before you take them outside - or cover them with blankets at night. Hope this helps, Carol...See MoreUser
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SouthCountryGuy Zone 4b-5 SE BC
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9 years agolast modified: 9 years agoostrich
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8 years agoHere are some photos of Never Alone, I am most enamored by it's striking foliage - extremely dark green with red edges, and red tones on new growth. They are some of the darkest and glossiest rose leaves I have ever seen:
The blooms were lovely in shape and vibrant contrasting colour, however no fragrance I could smell:
Ostrich, here's a bush shot of Canada Blooms. Unfortunately the tag said it is good to only Zone 4, so perhaps not as hardy as described elsewhere:
I would still like to see the blooms on this one...SouthCountryGuy Zone 4b-5 SE BC
8 years agoostrich
8 years agoBrandon_Calgary_Z3
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8 years agoSouthCountryGuy Zone 4b-5 SE BC
8 years agoSouthCountryGuy Zone 4b-5 SE BC
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7 years agoprairie_northrose (3b north of Calgary AB, Canada)
7 years agoI saw another new rose, the Above and Beyond rose, available again today at Golden Acres garden centre in Calgary, it had a faint scent, here are some photos of fresh and faded blooms:
Golden Acre also had a few Olds Centennial roses!
They had the new Oscar Peterson at Lowes but it was scanning in as $29.99, although they had a sign by it saying mixed 2 gallon roses were on sale for $14.99. Oh well, perhaps I was not meant to bring home another rose with so much to plant already!
weeper_11
7 years agorouge21_gw (CDN Z5b/6a)
7 years agoI have my "Never Alone" in a (too) small container. I have decided I like the blooms with their white centres.
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7 years agoostrich
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2 years agolast modified: 2 years agoMy Winnipeg Parks Roses are now blooming! They are lovely indeed!!!
The colour is like an "electric red" or shocking pink meets red, or.... "fluorescent red" if there is such a thing!? LOL! No wonder why you guys say that it's hard to describe its colour! Anyway, it is just lovely.prairie_northrose (3b north of Calgary AB, Canada)
2 years agoI finally took a pic of Never Alone, poor plant really needs to be moved, it is being terribly crowded by weeds, but hanging in there:
Love your enthusiasm about Winnipeg Parks ostrich! It was definitely the first rose which got me hooked on this adventure.
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SouthCountryGuy Zone 4b-5 SE BC