My first rose garden, my first rose posting
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They were bare root roses planted 4 months ago.
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Comments (7)Welcome, and congratulations! Listen, not EVERY rose requires dis budding to mature. Some are perfectly vigorous enough to flower and still grow. However, some definitely are NOT. Many own root Teas, Climbing Teas and particularly yellow Tea-Noisettes and some Chinas can take forever to develop and mature into the plants you expect them to be. Permitting them to flower only slows their development. Weak, stingy growers such as Austin's Dove; many of the earlier gray, brown and green roses; many of the Tea-like earlier HTs can also drag their feet, producing begrudging inches of growth. Permitting them to flower will slow them down greatly, too. Then, you have some more modern climbers, such as Kordes' Rosarium Uetersen, Renae and my Annie Laurie McDowell which will sit and flower like a blooming weed while refusing to climb. If you want to push these to climb, you pinch off the buds, forcing that energy into pushing elongated canes from the plants in their efforts to bloom again. Budding these particular types will speed up their development quite a bit, but they still benefit from dis budding to push growth. Own root versions of them are significantly slower to develop. It's with these that dis budding provides the greatest benefit. It is quite possible your roses won't require dis budding to develop into the plants you desire, in the time frame you have in mind. Whether they will or not, they very likely will mature into what you hope for faster if you don't let them flower. Whether you permit flowering as they desire; permit only some of the flowers to mature and open or simply continue dis budding them until they are the size you want them to be is up to you. Enjoy whatever flowers you want to, but keep in mind that if they are taking longer than you hoped to develop into the plants you expected or desired, removing the flowers to force growth should help you get what you want, closer to when you want it. Kim...See MoreMy First Rose Garden Photos
Comments (26)Hi mzstitch--Thank you for your nice compliment about Julia. I have two of them, and I think I got them in 2006-7 whichever was the year they came out. They are grafted roses, and seem to just grow rounded and need little pruning, so they are about as wide as tanks! One Julia is about a foot shorter than the other, though. I think JC is a wonderful rose which always looks good. You can't believe the windstorms that we had, day after day, a few weeks ago (luckily the photos were taken about two days before the first one). After each storm, I would run outside and shove those big girls' canes up, and they would pop up with no breakage, looking good as ever. What a rose. Hi campanula--I hope Mr Camps' back is better so you can start working on your own flower beds, too. Thanks for your comments. Diane...See MoreMy First Rose Garden Photos (Continued)
Comments (8)First of all that is one of the most beautiful and healthy gardens I've seen (puts mine to shame...seriously!)Your Jude the Obscure looks like the pictures I've seen that made be ignore thats its prone to black spot, and just go for it! Stunning! And your Twilight Zone is also 5x bigger than mine! I must be doing something wrong haha! Secondly, I'm a little concerned about where I've placed some of my English roses. I thought Jude the Obscure was suppossed to stay under 4ft?? I may have a problem...LOL! Thanks to you and your granddaughter for sharing, Tammy...See MoreSuggestions for how to complete my first cottage-inspired rose garden?
Comments (26)K S - How well (and how high) does Marie Pavie climb? I really like your idea of putting something in that right-hand side of the bed that can trail up the brick (and maybe up and over to the left). Even if she doesn't climb, I've added her to my buy-list as she just seems too good to pass up. I'm already getting short on real estate for this bed, so perhaps Darlow's Enigma would be better suited for a different part of the house. I don't mind keeping the area tidy, but also don't want to feel like I'm battling a monster every season either! ebharvey1 - I'm a huge fan of aliums! I just wish they bloomed longer than they do. There's nothing out there quite like them :) vaporvac - I have many part-shade beds throughout my yard, so Browallia would be a welcome addition of color there. Have you had experience with it in the past? Also, thank you for your recommendation of the hybrid musks! I particularly like the look of Sally Holmes. Question - can all hybrid musks be trained to climb? And what separates them from "regular" shrub roses. Being a newbie to roses has me finding out just how little I know about them! totoro - Thanks for the clarification! I never noticed that before. noseometer - I was just in Albuquerque this week for work and was amazed at some of the plants folks were growing in their yards - wisteria in full bloom and dozens of gorgeous purple irises just to name a few. Fortunately/unfortunately I've already planted Betty Corning, so I guess we'll just have to wait and see what happens. I've seen photographs of her growing on lower fences, so am hoping that she'll "top out" once she figures out she has no place left to climb :/ if not, I'll have to start scouting for some taller walls!...See MoreSophia
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