Roses & Stuff #14 (Oct Madness 2015)
Garran doing well! :-) Wife & her daughter still sick....
I took these shots today:
Aerial View...lol
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jim1961 / Central Pennsylvania / Zone 6
8 years agolast modified: 8 years agoA lot of people are into the fragrance of a rose but since my smeller is bad and my wife has allergies that allows me to focus 100% on buying only disease resistance rose bushes for our area whether they have fragrance or not...lol
Straw, sounds like some nice roses your getting next year...
Carol, those are some great pics of your rose blooms! You and your daughter sure do enjoy the fragrances of your roses.... :-)
We had tons of sun today with a temp of 62 degrees so EARTHSONG bud will open soon....I noticed all NEW roses are loading up on small buds so its a shame most of the buds will never open this year...But next Spring should be great for blooms... I may have to deal with a Thrip problem next year still not sure how I'll do that?
I'm only getting Carefree Celebration & probably Fire Opal next year...I realized I already have too many reds...lol... After that I think I'm done buying new roses...
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8 years agolast modified: 8 years agoCarol: THANK YOU for loading those pictures .. I enjoy all of them. I love the ruffles on your roses: Memorial day, Neil Diamond, and Yves Piaget. I don't get ruffles unless I use cocoa mulch .... must be some trace elements that cause ruffle-petals. The below bouquets were achieved by sprinkling 1/2 sulfate of potash and 1 part gypsum, plus cocoa mulch. Sulfate of potash NPK is so high at 0-0-50, that's why I use only 2 teaspoon per small rose. I bought 5 lbs. of that years ago, and I still have, plus I gave a few lbs. to a friend. I get into rocks lately since I'm too lazy to rush out before a rain to sprinkle stuff around the bush .. plus we have tons of rain this year.
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Comments (40)Hi Jim: You are right that brewer's yeast gives energy, I also see that in my using 1 Tbs. for the past 4 months. Without that stuff, I would not be able to chopped down 2 trees, dug in 20 feet of plastic edging, plus bricking a bed. I was so energetic that I broke my old shovel, so I bought a new one. The new shovel for $10 at Menards is so much better than my $$ old one. The new shovel is fiberglass, so much lighter, plus wet soil doesn't stick to it. I researched on both rice bran and brewer's yeast ... tested both on roses. Rice bran was a disaster for BS, thanks to its fungal-promoters: high in manganese at 838%, plus high in phosphorus at 198% ... compared to zero values for Brewer's Yeast. Manganese is known as a rust-promoter in one University research on rust-fungus on plants. Rice bran is also high in iron, at 122% ... and high iron is known to promote fungal growth. See link below for nutrients in rice bran: http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/cereal-grains-and-pasta/5725/2 However, rice bran is very good for human's health, thanks to its high values in vitamin-B: 217% thiamine (B1), 20% riboflavin (B2), 240% B6, 201% niacin, 29% vitamin E, 19% folate, and 87% pantothenic acid. Brewer's yeast is also high in B-vitamins: 80% Thiamine (B1), 90% riboflavin, 50% niacin, 40% B6, 15% folate, and 6% pantothenic acid. What's special about Brewer's yeast is its high in selenium, at 90%. Selenium is both an anti-fungal, and anti-cancer agent. Brewer's yeast is also high in anti-fungal agents: 18% potassium, 10% zinc, and 50% copper. See link below: http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/custom/1323569/2 I had such lousy sleep for decades, thanks to my hay fever plus our hard-well water (high in calcium). One of the symptom of excess calcium is tension and insomnia. That's why I take magnesium citrate (CALM) to relax, plus to prevent diabetes. Your wife might like CALM, see link below. A few M.D's in pain-management recommend that for elder patients, since it relaxes muscle & helps with sleep. It has 1,500+ Four-and-1/2 stars-reviews on Amazon. I'm very picky in my reviews of products we bought from Amazon, and CALM earned 5 stars from everyone in my family: hubby said it helped with his leg cramps ... he's a marathon runner that runs over 10 miles per day. My kid loves its taste and goes to bed fast ... no more staying up. Magnesium citrate works fast, and makes me sleepy within 15 minutes. I spent hours of researching on best sleep, like reading over 1,000 reviews of products. One lady mentioned about how CALM (magnesium citrate) should be used with B1. She's right, all the B-vitamins help with sleep, so does magnesium. They are found in whole grains, beans, and leafy greens ... and we don't eat enough of them !! For over a week I took only CALM and Brewer's yeast ... I went to bed fast, but the quality of my sleep was poor. Then I added 3 fish-oils for Omega-3. Amazing !!! They all work together for the best sleep ever, no need for napping during the day. If you look at the nutritional profile of salmon, it's similar to Brewer's yeast: high in B-vitamins, high in selenium ... but salmon has Omega-3, versus none in Brewer's yeast. We eat lots of salmon, like twice a week, plus I have canned sardines often for lunch. That didn't help my sleep whatsoever !!! Then I found out that frozen salmon loses 50% of its Omega-3, plus farmed salmon have much less than the wild-caught. Wild caught fresh salmon is $$$, plus hard to find. So fish oils is much cheaper, and does the same. NOW ultra-omega fish-oil has the best reviews on Amazon, because it works, plus cheapest at 14 cents per pill. Below link is CALM magnesium citrate .. over a thousand people swore that it helps with sleep ... so does my family, after testing that for several weeks. We calculate that to 5 cents per usage to fall asleep immediately. Here is a link that might be useful: CALM magnesium citrate for $13...See MoreRoses & Stuff #5 (2015)
Comments (106)Nice blueberries bushes Sam! he he on the good luck rocks...lol Straw, here's a pic of our largest and best D. Ko bush that we have in our yard. I planted it directly after I took out another rose that was in that spot for 30+ years. No ill effects at all...Only positive results in this case... If Thomas Affleck itself is capable of blooming well in that spot out front he will when he is ready. If not he will get replaced by a rose bush that will bloom better without having to change soil......(My grandpap god rest his soul would turn over in his grave if I ever changed our native soil for a rose bush or any other plant/shrub..) I can still here him saying for every plant that doesn't work there is one that will...lol... He would also say NEVER change your native soil unless you plan on veggie gardening the rest of your life...lol.. (Referring to our soil here).... Come to think of it I had Zinnias in Thomas Affleck spot last year. After seeing these Zinnia pics again and remembering we got the most compliments ever from them out front. Thomas Affleck will be surrounded next year by a few Marigolds but tons of Zinnias! A bit smaller ones though as we can't block the sun from Thomas...I'll get 2ft high Zinnias for the back and 15 inch Zinnias for the front......See MoreRoses & Stuff #6 (2015)
Comments (119)I think that was a end of the year bouquet...lol... Notice all the blooms that was the year I grew Mister Lincoln in a large container until September when I planted him in the ground... OK I'll start a new thread.... lol...See MoreRoses & Stuff #15 (cont. of Oct Madness 2015)
Comments (61)jim1961: thanks for your kind words. I am glad you like my roses. Strawchicago: Wow wow so its you. I got confused initially as you have a different nick here but when I read your posts, I had no doubts that its you. There is only one person that I know who would take so much pain in conveying to the others what she knows with all her sincerity and honesty, without any desire for recognition or commercial benefit. God bless you. English Rose Forum was a nice place and we had few very good discussions there. I always learnt a lot from your posts. And BTW, don't bother much about those who refuse to listen (and thus learn). I absolutely agree with Bible verses that you have quoted in another thread. There a people who would never be able to come out of their so called "egos" so there is no point wasting time with them. I am so happy to be around and I have been reading the old threads for hours yesterday (I am on holidays nowadays). There is so much to learn I must confess. I have already got answers to some of my questions and will be asking more. Will try to post photos wherever I can. Let me acknowledge at the outset that with regards to organic rose growing, I am just a beginner and may not have anything profound to contribute. I will be more on the learning side. Nevertheless, I can provide information on behaviour of various rose cultivars in hot humid monsoon region of Islamabad. I won't say that it truly represents Zone 9a that you have in the US but it is close to it with regard to temperatures. What makes it different from US zone 9a is monsoon season where for two months (jul and aug), we have torrential rains, floods and very high humidity with temperatures ranging between 35-42*C. This is a torrid time for roses, all kinds of pests / fungus attack them and if the drainage is not good, most of them might die. At times, it might rain for two to three days at a stretch and whole lawn might be filled with 4-6 inches of water if the drainage has not been carefully designed. I don't have this issue in Islamabad as it is a semi-hilly area nevertheless one has to be careful while selecting location for rose pits. I will post my observations in a separate thread as advised. Best regards...See More
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8 years agojim1961 / Central Pennsylvania / Zone 6
8 years agolast modified: 8 years agoGreat looking bouquets Straw! Your blooms look fantastic as usual! :-)
Carol, below is Fire Opal...Fire Opal blooms start out a whiteish/pink color then actually get darker from the sun...
http://newflora.com/product/fire-opal-kolorscape-rose/
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8 years agojim1961 / Central Pennsylvania / Zone 6
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8 years agolast modified: 8 years agoJim: Fire Opal is very pretty & dainty.
Carol: Enjoy seeing your roses again every time I load the thread. Really like the colors of your roses, esp. Fragrant Cloud (so many petals !!) and Peter Mayle. I like Pink Peace's scent too. Angel Face's scent is fantastic, but that one kept dying over the winter. The rose park has Chicago Peace, but I can't smell anything. Pots have better scent, since it's better-fertilized.
Years ago when I had 20+ new roses in pots ... I fertilized with MG-soluble NPK 18-24-16, the high nitrogen & high phosphorus attracted thrips. I tried coating gaudy plastic cups with Vaseline, but THAT DID NOT WORK. What worked was I put roses into the ground, stopped the fertilizer, and wasps devoured thrips.
That was before I knew about the role of calcium and potassium in hardening plants' tissue, so pests can't chew on. The last 3 years I put gypsum into the pot, plus fertilize with equal gypsum & sulfate of potash .. no thrips whatsoever. Below is Clotilde Soupert, pic. taken Sep. 30, it's 2-month growth from a tiny-rooting, with 5 buds. The 1st bloom balled on me, so I put my high-magnesium clay on top, will post pics. when the blooms open. The scent is fabulous old rose scent.
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8 years agolast modified: 8 years agoBelow is Prairie Harvest with 3 new buds (I pinched that off this morning). It's a 2-month growth from a tiny rooting in 4 hours morning sun. It's way bigger than Clotilde Soupert to the right. Clotilde Soupert has a magnificent scent, listed among the heavy-weights of fragrance, along with Madama I. Pereire, see below. Prairie Harvest scent is average. Pic taken Sep. 30.
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/article/Who-s-the-fairest-in-fragrance-1318559.php#photo-834591
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8 years agoBelow is Perle d' Or. Pic. taken yesterday Oct. 5. This morning it opened wider, and the apricot color is more intense. I notice that pea-gravel, plus sulfate of potash, plus gypsum gave more blooms & higher quality & more petals. Watering with molasses gave 3 blooms for 1st flush... but sprinkling sulfate of potash & gypsum DOUBLED the amount of blooms: 6 buds for a 2-month growth from a tiny rooting, in 4 hours of sun:
jim1961 / Central Pennsylvania / Zone 6
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8 years agoYves Seedling never had any thrips in 3 years ... until I accidentally gave it double-dose of high-phosphorus fertilizer, it came down with thrips in August. And IT WAS THE ONLY ROSE afflicted with thrips in my garden !! Knowing that calcium binds with phosphorus, I gave it garden lime, plus sulfate of potash & nitrogen to correct the imbalance. I also gave it Azomite (has calcium & potassium). It recuperate nicely, only one bloom lost to thrip in August. Picture below taken Sep. 30, the blooms are larger now, still on the bush as of today, Oct. 6:
jim1961 / Central Pennsylvania / Zone 6
8 years agolast modified: 8 years agoActually thrips like different grasses and weeds a lot too so you could have them and not even know until they attack your roses...And I guess they prefer different rose blooms more than others like Jb's seem too...
Biology
Because of their small size, flower thrips are carried over large areas by frontal wind systems. They have even been trapped at altitudes of 10,000 feet. Flower thrips are found throughout North Carolina with peak migration during the first week of June.
Flower thrips have been collected from 29 plant orders including various berries, cotton, day lilies, field crops, forage crops, grass flowers, legumes, peonies, privet, rose, trees, truck crops, and vines. They seem to prefer grasses and yellow or pale blossoms. Roses are most susceptible in June.
We have no weeds or grasses here but look across the street....Tons of them...This is the first year they let those weeds grow in years. Every year they spray for weed control until this year...
We do have those grasses out front I forgot about those...
rosecanadian
8 years agojim1961 / Central Pennsylvania / Zone 6
8 years agolast modified: 8 years agoGarran is still in ICU and has a infection now so please keep up the prayers...
Yep I love to see wasp and yellow jackets here as they eat the bad insects...
Sometimes I stand or sit and just watch the insects on the roses... Good and bad insects just to watch there habits... They can do strange things that are never mentioned in articles....
I learn more from watching than reading articles...
This is a bee trying to get nectar in the worse way...lol... I just snapped this shot a few minutes ago...
rosecanadian
8 years agojim1961 / Central Pennsylvania / Zone 6
8 years agolast modified: 8 years agoMy son, wife, & I outside enjoying nature today. My son leaves for Seattle Washington tomorrow... It's been a great visit!
Very nice sunny day today in the low 70's... :-)
Just took a shot of this guy right now:
Earthsong right now:
We don't really celebrate Halloween but I still carve a pumpkin every year at this time. I will be carving this one alittle later in the month:
rosecanadian
8 years agostrawchicago z5
8 years agolast modified: 8 years agoJim: I love the cheerful color of your Earthsong. I'm praying for baby Garran .. so young to suffer like that. I'm glad that you have a good time with your son, how old is he? Does he like Washington State?
Carol: Are your 2 daughters both in college and commute from home? My favorite scent is Mary Magdalene, like a cozy fireplace & frankincense combined. Today is the 1st time that I go without an afternoon nap ... last night I slept well thanks to double-dose of magnesium (both magnesium chloride and magnesium oxide). The days that I don't take magnesium, I would be so tense up that I can't sleep until 1 am. Lots of neighbor have sleeping problems .. our well-water is very high in calcium and makes people tense. I seriously think balling in roses have to do with deficiency in magnesium.
Potting soil doesn't have magnesium, so Clodilde Soupert balled up & could not open. I put some of my high-magnesium clay in there, let's see what happens. Below is my favorite scent, Sonia Rykiel, rasp. rose. Pic. taken Sep. 30, lots of petals thanks to pea gravel, blooms are from cluster of 4 buds. Just picked a 5" Pink Peace bloom today, 1st time ever, also with pea-gravel.
jim1961 / Central Pennsylvania / Zone 6
8 years agolast modified: 8 years agoNice clean looking blooms in that bouquet Straw! Having perfect looking blooms does not happen much here...lol... So great job achieving such perfect looking blooms!
My son Mike was born Dec 16th 1989 so he will be 26 soon...
Thinking today (smoke rolling...lol) I'm getting Carefree Celebration and I'm taking a chance and trying Plum Perfect... Couple reasons (one) blooms being darker in color on Plum Perfect the Thrips might leave it alone. lol (Second) I'm dying to try it here so I can report to Kordes whether or not it thrives in our climate... Plus we like the blooms...
Not sure what shade of color is right though...lol...
http://www.helpmefind.com/rose/l.php?l=21.270298
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8 years agolast modified: 8 years agoJim: Good choice !! Plum Perfect is gorgeous !! HMF listed it as hardy to zone 5b. I have Old Port (similar to Plum Perfect but more petals). Old Port survives my 2 worst winters, and HMF lists as hardy to zone 6b.
If Plum Perfect has scent, I would buy that for sure. I always buy the roses that I'm crazy about, regardless of what people say. Your soil is loamier, so roses would have deeper root than mine, plus you are in a warmer zone. I'm going to try Angel Face again as GRAFTED (sold for $8 per gallon-pot at Menards), the scent is better than Old Port.
When I read about Angel Face in HMF, folks mentioning mulching that to a height of 4 inches and it survived zone 4b winter. Keeping roots moist is the key for winter survival. In my last house of acidic clay, a neighbor with raised bed of 20 hybrid teas piled up wood-chips to a height of 4 to 6 inches ... all of her roses survived the winter ... she had loamy soil, so roots went deep. Below is my Old Port rose:
jim1961 / Central Pennsylvania / Zone 6
8 years agolast modified: 8 years agoThe US guy that helps conduct trials on Kordes roses is worried about Plum Perfect in our climates even though they are listed as a 5b rose... So I'll grow it and report on how it does in our cooler climate...
Vitamins for roses sounds like a winner Sam!
I tried piling up wood chips and overwintering here years ago and got terrible canker on canes... Also tried Oak leaves with same outcome... (I had those materials piled against the canes).. So that's why I only try to plant very cold hardy roses now...Easy Does it will be iffy here in our climate as will Plum Perfect... Will they be able to bounce back winter after winter? Only time will tell...
Went out this morning and took these pics:
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8 years agoWe went up and placed fall flowers on my sister Angelas gravesite today.... Another nice warmer sunny day here...Many bees out in our backyard today... They seem to love Prairie Harvest Bloom as I see different bees trying to get nectar all day long..
Praying Hands:
Halloweenish looking tree:
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8 years agojim1961 / Central Pennsylvania / Zone 6
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8 years agolast modified: 8 years agoI haven't used the hose except for filling the bird baths in a long time.
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blueberries With Pennsylvania rocks. Every plant gets a Rock.jim1961 / Central Pennsylvania / Zone 6
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8 years agojim1961 / Central Pennsylvania / Zone 6
8 years agoNight shot of Prairie Harvest Bloom using a flash...
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8 years agolast modified: 8 years agoChamplain and strawberries
good rose for lots of blooms no scent
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8 years agolast modified: 8 years agojim1961 / Central Pennsylvania / Zone 6
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8 years agoThe lawn looks really good in the fall. Wilbur got Scott's Kentucky bluegrass seed. Lupines seeds
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