First season blooms - new roses in shades of purple
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Huddersfield Choral Society - second bloom - just stunning!!
Prieuré de St Cosme (edges become more purple with age)
Minerva
This one isn't purple but new and I have to share! Thank you for all the enabling - so glad I got this .... (now I just waiting for Stephen Rulo and Café Ole (Dahlia) to bloom so that I can make one of those famous bouquets that were posted last year)
KOKO LOKO - bloom and bud
Hope you like:)))
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rose band - roses the first season?
Comments (5)"Bare root" just refers to plants sold without soil, usually grafted plants and the thing you get in any big box store. I think you mean own root roses, which are usually smaller plants and often grown in bands. I just plant my own roots in the ground as soon as I get them. I always see flowers in the first year but I admit it may take 2 or 3 years to obtain good-sized plants this way. Assuming you keep the plants well watered and fed, the major factor limiting growth is probably soil temperature. In my zone 5, I am confident that potted plants will have higher soil temperatures than plants in the ground, especially in Spring and early Summer, and will make more growth. If I weren't so lazy, I'd probasbly pot up my bands and wait until late summer to put them in the ground...See MoreFirst REAL bloom of the season
Comments (15)I did trade for Selma Rose in 2007, but I could have sworn it died. I looked at the pictures on Tinkers of it though. The first picture is too dark for mine, but the next one is identical to mine, the bottom petal even folded up the same way. I need to take a closer look at the tag, it was faded but maybe it didn't say "My Sweet" Rose. The height is right & with bloom time matching yours, I bet either it didn't die completely, or I got tags mixed up again. It is getting where it is more of a shock to me when a plant blooms & actually matches its tag! Thanks for your reminder. I was so sure it had died I took it off my list....See MoreNew to growing roses, my first Tiffany bloom
Comments (15)Hi Densiemill, This is a wonderful place to look at so many beautiful roses and gardens and as you said, learn! I started planting roses last year around the bird bath to discourage my outdoor "rescue" cat, Oscar, from sitting under the birdbath as if it were an entertainment/buffet...ugh. I saw the bare root roses at Sam's Club, they weren't expensive so I thought I would try planting a few. I bought six with a lot of greenery on them thinking that was good but, 15 minutes after I got them watered, they were wilted about to the ground. I thought I killed them in record time but, came on the board and the knowledgeable, kind people here told me to cut the greenery back and they would be fine, with watering, etc. and, they did well! This year, I waited for Sam's Club to get the roses in and practically ran down the isle when I saw them. This was one of the first ones I bought, they had another shipment that I got the rest from and now, I am waiting on more blooms of beauty and fragrance. And, Oscar still sits under the bird bath at times but has learned, when he does, it is possible he will get watered along with the roses ;) Thank you for the kind words and I am happy you enjoyed this beautiful rose :)...See MoreDon't panic if the first blooms on a new rose are a different color
Comments (10)I doubly panicked about this--it turns out unnecessarily--this spring. I bought Mrs. Lovell Swisher from Rogue Valley, and the note on the website said that they weren't sure yet if it was Mrs. Lovell Swisher or not, since the crop hadn't yet bloomed. My dog knocked the band over and snapped it off, just as it was forming its first bud, so I thought it was a goner. I brought the snapped-off twig into the house, and the flower opened reddish pink and orange. I was unsure if I should contact Rogue Valley for a replacement, because even though it didn't appear to be the right cultivar, I thought I had already killed it anyway. And I had read the warnings here about never judging based on the first bloom. But then, a week later, I discovered the true Mrs. Lovell Swisher blooming in another part of the yard. I had mixed it up with Violinista Costa, which I had planted at the same time. And the happy ending to the story is that the Violinista has now sent up a bunch of strong new canes, in spite of being snapped off at the ground level several weeks after planting....See MoreIngrida
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7 years agoCarol, glad you like Prieuré de St Cosme. It is such an interesting rose because it literally changes by the hour - more reason to take multiple walks around the garden, lol.
April, can't remember if I have mentioned that I have grouped KL and Stephen with two other new roses Mokarosa and Crème Caramel (Fryer 2008). So far only KL has bloomed but SR had a couple of hips on when he arrived and I germinated the seeds - got this baby from him - sometimes the apple doesn't fall that far!
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