How many canes do you leave on HT roses
Sara-Ann Z6B OK
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Brittie - La Porte, TX 9a
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How many unscented roses do you allow?
Comments (49)I definitely prefer scented roses. Scented flowers of any kind, actually! Ever since the first time my Casablanca lilies filled my yard with their ridiculously great fragrance I have been hooked! If they don't have scent then they need to have other factors in their favour, such as being floriferous, hardy, low-maintenance, nice foliage. For example: I like my hydrangeas and daylilies for their long-flowering and my weigelas and dogwood for their low-maintenance. But if they have scent then I'm in heaven, and so I have a butterfly bush, some scented Viburnums, Peonies, Oriental lilies, Bearded Iris, Lilacs, Summer Phlox, and others! And, of course, Roses. As for roses, if I had my way they would all be extremely fragrant! But also repeat-flowering, hardy, and disease-free (I don't spray). So with this combo in mind I have a mix of fragrant and non (or low) fragrance roses, while also keeping a keen eye on what Kordes and others are doing every year. Flower form and colour have less interest to me than the other characteristics I mentioned, though I will say that I do like nice flower forms. Wedding Bells is my favourite flower form, I think. The first roses I grew were flower carpets and knockouts. I still have a row of three double knockouts that actually give a wafting, light tea fragrance detectable within about 10 feet of the roses. My big Rugosa experiment was a failure (I could barely detect any fragrance, but the Japanese Beetles did and swarmed them), and I have gotten mixed results from some floribundas (scent is usually good, but disease resistance is hit and miss in this black spot magnet area). Last year was my first year with tea roses (some Kordes varieties) so hopefully this year I get a better sense of what they can do. So I would say my fragrant/non-fragrant is about half and half, with hopefully moving towards more fragrant as I find more varieties that work for me. So among the non-fragrant I have roses like the Double Knockouts, Bonica, Campfire, Morden Blush, and some tiny Oso Easy shrub roses. I may add a Fairy rose. My best scented roses have been Honey Perfume, Julia Child, and Dark Desire, and every year I'm going to find a new spot or two for a new, scented rose....See MoreHow many canes should a climbing rose have?
Comments (6)We, here in Ontario, are forever reminded of how B.C. has no snow....you don't have to shovel rain. But, while snow is not thought of as something to admire---many people do wait for it and cant wait to get to the slopes...B.C. knows all about that what with Whistler raking in all the tourist dollars. Roses anywhere, everywhere, have common problems, from disease to winds, especially winter winds, that can dry out a plant in no time. So do put up a barrier to how winds might confront your rose bush. So too can winds dry out the soil--so make sure the plant goes into winter with lots of water--but not too much, roses don't like wet feet. Mound the plants up at least 12" with what you feel proper....soil, leaves, boughs...and don't remove the protection until all chance of frost has passed in the spring. Don't get antsy about a spell of warm weather in March which turns nasty again and have your plants succumb to the weather. Make sure the canes are tied together securely and to the trellis, post or fence you have them on. In the spring, separate the canes by how your hand and fingers are splayed out. That is how you want to have the canes grow and gives the best chance of sunlight to all parts of the plant. Don't do major pruning at this time --remove what is weak or damaged but otherwise, leave pruning for the spring. Open wounds on ends of canes can invite disease and freezes....See Moreits rose cane canker- now how do I prune?
Comments (2)Prune well beneath the canker and dispose of all the prunings by bagging them and throwing them away. Disinfect the pruners between plants. Cut at about a 45 degree angle and make sure your pruners are nice and sharp before you start so they'll make clean cuts. I hope the canker is not too low on the canes or you'll be cutting back the Knockout roses lower than generally is recommended. I remember when Knockouts were first introduced and were touted as being extremely disease-resistant. I have been surprised how many people have had major black spot and canker issues with them....but that is a reminder to us all that resistance is merely resistance, not immunity....See MoreCan you please ID these (I think) HTs ? (Part 2 of 2) (many pics
Comments (5)I wish I had Easy Going, it looks like a beauty, but my yellow has no peach, amber or pink veining or undertones. It's egg-yolk yellow and simply pales to lemon-cream with age. My main regret is that it blows too quickly to a very open, unattractive form. This describes my 'Easy Going'. Actually "the light green shiny foliage" comment makes me lean towards EG, also the growth habit of your standard. Livin Easy, Easy Going, and the offspring Hot Cocoa have very distinctive foliage, prickles, canes, and growth habit. What makes ID trickier in your case that you are in Europe, where there are cultivars we don't have here. Easy Going and Livin Easy are very popular as standards here--whether or not that is true in France, I have no idea. Usually though standard roses, which are much more expensive than the regular ones, are less apt to be an obscure variety because of the extra expense. So look at very common cultivars. Have you looked at Sunsprite and Sunflare? Might also be one of those. Easy Going foliage:...See Morerosecanadian
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