What roses are you getting for next year?
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Comments (5)Ok, murky gave some great info, but I'm just going to start fresh with my answer because I think it's easier that way. First off, just to review, raspberry canes are biennial and the crown and roots are perennial. The canes the emerge from the ground in the spring and grow are called primocanes. In primocane-fruiting varieties, the primocanes will flower and bear fruit in the late-summer and fall of the year (thus the term fall-fruiting). You can manage a primocane-fruiting variety to produce both a spring and fall crop. To do so, you'll want to remove all floricanes after they fruit and die, and prune off the portion of the primocane that fruited in the fall. The next spring, the portion of the cane that didn't fruit in the fall will fruit. If you want just the fall primocane crop, you can simply mow off all of the canes during the winter. In floricane-fruiting varieties, the primocanes remain vegetative all year, and go dormant in the winter. In the spring, these canes, now called floricanes flower and bear fruit (thus the term spring-fruiting). After fruiting, the floricanes die and should be pruned out. This can be done anytime after fruiting but before new growth begins in the spring. You can also prune the primocanes during the first, non-fruiting growing season to encourage lateral development and increased fruiting the followoing year. I'm not sure why the canes that fruited for you this year are sprouting some new growth. This may be from secondary buds, but whatever it is, I'm sure it won't produce any fruit before frost, and won't survive the winter. I'd just go ahead and prune out the dead canes. I really think what you have is a floricane fruiting variety, because if you had a primocane fruiting variety you'd have flowers and fruit right now....See MorePlease comment on my rose choices for next year.
Comments (13)I live near Oakland, California and grow a dozen Austin roses. These are my favorites: "Mary Rose" has an extended bloom season in California and blooms in March, where H.T.s have their first flush in May. Soft light green leaves makes "Mary Rose" a pretty plant. Healthy. "Mayflower" very healthy, and easy to grow. "Tamora" pretty bloom, upright growth habit, but well clad with foliage. "Othello" for number of flushes per year, when deadheaded. "William Shaksespeare 2000" for fragrance. I can't reccomend "Abbraham Darby" we grow it as a climber and it is a very stingy bloomer, and gets every foliage disease. I also, advocate Tea roses, for gardens in California. Tea rosebushes have a gracile growth habit ( I borrowed that term from anthropology) and have beautiful leaves in abundance, their blooms have an "exquisite delicacy" as one writer put it. I prefer Tea roses, in general, to Austins because Tea roses are much more prolific bloomers, and bloom for more months out of the year. A.R.E. sells Tea roses in gallons, which I reccomend over bands for this class, as Tea roses are slow to build in size. Greg Lowery of Vintage Gardens nursery says that Tea is THE rose class for California. Luxrosa...See MoreWhat will you do differently next year?
Comments (16)The garden is now 7 years old. Next year will be the year of propagation every which way there is to do so. Cuttings, division, collect and grow from seed, etc. No purchasing any new plants, plant exchanges don't count, I said "no purchases" ( right Vicki, we can do it) With all the new babies it will be time to establish a pot getto, the true sign that I have crossed over some kind of line in my gardening life. The other must is to master the art of composting. There is a 6'x3'x4' pile of pulled weeds, pruneings and dead headed flowers in the back corner of the yard. It has been growing there for 3 seasons hidden by the above ground pool. Next year I will dig it out and see what there is. Then that spot will be the new home of a proper compost pile....See MorePlease help me pick some roses for next year
Comments (13)Austins, Austins, Austins!! Many of them are hardy in an average Maine winter. I will admit that I lost 3 of mine last winter, due to the extreme cold and no snow cover. But I replaced them all and then some more because, for me, they perform better than nearly every rose I have tried. I have never winter-protected in the past, but may consider placing some leaf mulch around the Austins this winter. If I had done this last winter, I may not have lost the ones I did. Let me say that if you are looking for very fragrant, big fluffy flowers, David Austins are the way to go. Your wife will fall in love with them. I have fallen in love with them. They are the only roses I have ever been enamored by. Although the Canadian Explorers and Bucks are hardier, you are right in that they have no scent. I have two Champlains (Can. Expl.) that do bloom red continuously all summer, but I am not impressed by them because they have no scent and their form is not as nice as Austins. I have tried a couple French Rugosas, and though they are fragrant, they have not been anywhere near the blooming machines as my Austins. In fact, I have been quite disappointed with my rugosa "Souvenir de Philemon Cochet" because all the buds just beginning to open balled in the rain (turned an ucky brown color and never really opened). Nearly all Austins will bloom all summer long, even into the fall sometimes. Their fragrance will make women swoon (and some men too). They are absolutely beautiful, old-fashioned round, fat, thousand-petaled, scrumptious blooms. They have been very disease-resistant for me. An occasional speck or two of black spot is all I have seen on some of them. Many are 100% clean. Now to the hardiness part: Last winter was a doozy, but I have had Austins sail through the previous two winters very well. Their canes do winter-kill, usually down to 6-12" depending on the conditions. In mid-April, when they have started to put out new buds, I prune off the winter-killed canes down to live growth. They make up for the lost height by mid-summer. If you winter-protect, you will have less winter-kill. Email me if you want some pics or more growing information, and sources....See MoreNinkasi
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