Blossomtime
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Comments (0)I would like to order Coral Dawn, Blossomtime and Harlow Carr for this year. Actually I love to order all of them or maybe just choose some? I felt Coral Dawn and Blossomtime are quite same and I donÂt see much picture or people talking about Harlow Carr. Are they do best in hot climate and good repeating or not? Please someone sharing your experience and picture about those roses. Thank you very much....See MoreAnyone still grow Blossomtime?
Comments (10)Sammy, My reason for growing it in a pot is this: When I moved from CA to VA, I dug up most of my roses from the ground and moved them, having to really chop off the roots and then the canes. When I realized in VA that a move might be in the future, I wanted to make my roses more mobile and felt putting them in pots would be less traumatic since I could move them pot and all. At that point all my new roses or propagated roses were planted in pots.When winter came in VA, I had several piles of wood chips from having trees cut down so I leveled off the tops of the piles and dug holes in the chips( real easy) and sunk the pots into them. The roses did very well. I had thought they would be in this situation for a year or 2 but it has ended up to about four-TOO LONG. The roses have been happy and thrived despite no spray and no fertilizer and lots of neglect the last few years. What happened was they sent roots out of the pots and into the wood chip pile. This summer, fall, I have moved about 60 or so roses, pots and all to NY. They have all done well except for Buff Beauty (never too vigorous for me) and many were pumping out blooms in November despite no spray nor fertilizer but just watering. I did have to chop the roots back to release the pots. I have not brought my BT up yet. It had large perfectly formed blooms on the bush in November. The plant is about 6 feet tall and the pot is tilted so it leans west. Healthy as can be. I would use BT as a large free standing shrub, possibly in the lawn as a focal point. I would not put them in pots but directly in the ground. They get the size of a large forsythia bush or a small lilac. The canes seem too stiff for a climber and it makes a lovely plant so I would prune it minimally. This is how it did for me in Richmond VA- New York may tell another tale. You will love BT, one of the best in my opinion. Hope this helps, Jim...See MoreBlown away by blossomtime
Comments (32)Lily, Your place is SO beautiful!!! My Blossomtime is own root, but still very vigorous. I'm growing mine as a shrub rather than a climber, and as oldrosarian said, it can kinda look like it has a hangover...but LOVE it nonetheless. Mine is in full sun and does repeat decently...not as strong as its spring flush, but regularly has a good number of blooms throughout the summer. Its blooms can be quartered, high centered, nodding, outward or upward facing...usually some of all at the same time. At several years old now, it is about 5 ft tall and about twice as wide. Here's mine last month:...See MoreBlossomtime a true climber?
Comments (15)The is also one of my favorites. The poor thing is in between a honeysuckle and butterfly bush and needs one of those two moved, I won't dare move blossomtime, it is so thorny . The color is remarkable as well as the fragrance. I'm sorry I posted the above pic , I couldn't tell on my phone but it did have thrip damage this spring. But it sure bloomed a lot ! This was this spring. It really wanted to be wide ! But it threw up a lot of long canes and is at least taller than me....See Morehenry_kuska
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