My "pot ghetto", I mean "garden" is growing!
I was in my back yard this morning, and thought to myself, "it looks like a jungle back here!" I have a small rose bed, which has about seven roses in it, and surrounding it are all my potted roses. I counted what roses I have in large pots, and by the time I put a couple more in pots, I will have twenty, mostly hybrid teas and a couple of floribundas growing in that way. I have roses growing in the ground where the soil is good enough to grow them. Most other places in my yard, I don't have to dig very far down, before I hit rock, and pots are just easier! I am going to have to come up with a plan where they will be more attractive. Right now it definitely looks like a "pot ghetto!"
This is a sample of a few I planted last year, and they all appear to be doing good, along with the others. I hope I will be able to photograph the whole bush covered with blooms this year!
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bethnorcal9
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Need Rose Suggestions for a Small Pot Ghetto Please
Comments (25)Late nights of music after days of gardening fuel my rose posts often. Roses that I have coveted at one point or another that might do well in pots include: Jean Mermoz - Pink Polyantha Treasure Trail - Pink-Apricot Blend Barden Remontant Moss Snowbird - Creamy White HT Anne Marie de Montravel - White Polyantha mentioned above Marie Jeanne - Light Pink Polyantha Grey Dawn - Grey Floribunda Lullaby - Light Pink-White Polyantha Archiduc Charles -Cerise/Red/Pink China Indigo - Mauve Portland Lady Emma Hamilton - Orangeish Austin September Morn - Pink HT Violet Hood - Mauve Polyantha Pinnochio (but I don't think it's available now that Vintage is closed) - Pink Blend Floribunda Precious Dream - Orange-Apricot Blend Hybrid Bracteata by Moore Wedding Cake (if you like wacky roses) Pink-Green-Cream Moore Floribunda Cream Veranda - Cream Floribunda by Kordes and probably more if I thought about it. I'd go for something you have coveted for a long time, that wouldn't go as well with your planted garden color schemes, that you'll care to water and attend to a bit more, and/or that is from a breeder you have had success with or have been meaning to try. I personally think I'm going to add a Treasure Trail for a pot the next time I make a Rogue Valley order. And my mom is ordering a Jeri Jennings for a spot along what will be the "Hybrid Musk Wall" across from a row of grapes growing along part of one side of my parent's house. From what I understand, it can get fairly sizable in a warm climate. I've seen pictures of Felicia that look like a Floribunda though, so Hybrid Musks appear to be versatile in the garden. Jay...See MoreMy new pot ghetto isn't looking too good
Comments (14)aggierose, your question re pot size is not dumb at all- I wondered that for years myself! The answers I came across indicate that unless your potting mixture (for young plants) is very light, nutritious, and free-draining, the closed environment of a pot holds too much moisture and too much air remains driven from the soil for too long. True, open ground CAN be so saturated (as after a heavy rainfall) there is no oxygen (especially in clay soils) in the soil, but usually water moves through the soil fast enough that it isn't a problem. Roots stop growing when there is no oxygen, and do so temporarily after a heavy rainfall. So your babies may be getting swamped (this can happen in heavy soil if you just amend a hole with lighter soils - the hole ends up being a sump that traps water). Also, if they are recently potted they have lost a lot of tiny feeder roots - so they need to replace those, plus you will have leaf yellowing and drop as the plant give up leaves it can't support right now, until the feeder roots re-grow. Which won't happen if the soil is heavy and oxygen -less. Without being there it is hard to say, I would be hesitant to tell you to repot again into a smaller pot and lighter mixture. If the plants re in danger of rotting outright you will have to, gently. Do the canes/stems still look good? Lastly I am still suspicious of your soil mixture - for me I have very, very rarely purchased ANY soil that I didn't need to amend (preferred) and a LOT of what I see has all kinds of junk in it - long-term fertilizers, wetting agents - it's getting harder and harder just to find good soil that I can lighten up with Perlite, sand, etc. That includes so-called African violet and cactus mixtures. For my own experience it is better to mix your own! I might try more than 2-3 hours of sun, at least more partial sun if your heat is strong. And do not fertilize at all until the babies are really growing!!! 5-inch tall plants need small pots with a light, free-draining mixture - you might try re-potting to a smaller pot and putting the small pots into the big pot (double-potting). Pack the space between the pots with insulation material (I've used newspaper, mulch, packing peanuts, even old dirt!)...See MoreBrought a few in from the pot ghetto just now, low of 27 tonight!
Comments (8)I hope Paradise Found makes it through your winter, too, nummy, because it is one gorgeous rose (and that's an excellent photo). Sounds like your weather is about like ours right now, down to the degree. We have a short summer, being so far north, even though our zone is fairly moderate. I think we're colder than seil in Michigan. My hot peppers, morning glory, and four o'clocks are down for the count. I tore out the tomatoes and cukes last week. Strangely enough, I have nasturtiums that are OK and I thought they were so tender. For the past several days, I've gone out and picked buds and blooms from the last of the roses to enjoy in the house because soon the frost will get them, too. Sigh. It's all over for the year. Onward to next year, and may the roses be better than ever....See MoreLet's talk pot ghettos
Comments (35)I'm miiiight be turning our porches and pool deck into pot ghettos now? Yipes! Since my first post on this thread I've added a potted Diamond Eyes and a whiskey barrel Alexander Mackenzie to the back porch, and a potted Ebb Tide to the pool deck. This is in addition to the 3 gallon babies that have wait to go in the ground behind the patio, and the 7 other babies settling in to the pot ghetto nursery on the front porch. This might be indicative of a problem? ...Although I do have the flower snob hubby seriously talking about a greenhouse now. Heh heh heh....See MoreSara-Ann Z6B OK
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BethC in 8a Forney, TX
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8 years agolast modified: 8 years agolol, Judy. I am the same. I think I ordered enough roses this season but I'm still browsing online rose nurseries to see if I can find roses that I think I must have then I write down their names and try the next several days to see if I can talk myself out of why I shouldn't order them. Which roses did you order Judy?
To give the pot system a nice look, I thought hard about the style and color of the pots that will work for my garden and bought multiple pots of the same style and color. I bought these 20" W x 17" H plastic clay color pots and after I put them next to each other they look like a well planned pot display.
For the people who have a lot of experience in growing roses in pots, are these pots big enough for David Austin shrubs and hybrid tea roses in warm area like California?
I thought about these 24" pot of a different shape (20" is the largest of the above shape at the store) but I think they are just too heavy for me to move them around after I fill them up with potting soil and roses. What do you think? Helen
bethnorcal9
8 years agolast modified: 8 years agoI have a lot of those bottom pots or similar ones. Most of mine are 16-18" tho, not 24." I did use 20" ones for my climbers at the bird feeding pergola supports tho. They'll be staying there for a long time... I hope!
This is what some of my pot ghettos or pot areas look like... It's messy right now, because I'm planting new beds all around there.
These potted ones are kinda permanent. I did get those empty ones filled in recently.
Before the newest bed was started...
Mess!!
Here's the newest bed finished..
It's always a work in progress... And I will always have some pot ghettos or whatever you want to call them... It's all part of being rose-obsessed! LOL
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