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Finally Some Bloom

7 years ago

My season has started with Mystical Elf

The rose New Dawn is going to have a great summer.

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Nancy

7 years ago

Oh, good, I always feel when I can seem bloom photos here, my season is extended a bit! Mystical Elf looks like a nice start. Beautiful rose, New Dawn is supposed to be a good rose, I planned at one time to get it, but then gave up roses due to Japanese beetles.

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sherrygirl zone5 N il
7 years ago
Lovely yellow daylily! It's great the season has started for you!

Sherry
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Thanks all for the feed back. I have been checking this forum daily for the past month or so and not finding many people posting pics, so I thought I would share now that I have a few blooms. Pinelands Princess is a beauty on the stem, but it doesn't last well as a cut flower. All of those fine delicate petals start drooping fast. The camera is really nothing fancy. Its an Olympus Camedia from about 8 years ago. C-740 ultra zoom. I just set it on close up, zoom in, and click the shutter. Here is a pic of the Pinelands Princess fully open. Its difficult to capture the fullness of the bloom, it is almost like a pom the way it turns into a round ball. This bloom is just under 6" and all of the blooms are out facing which is nice for a tall plant (over 6ft) Here is another of the Fire Magic almost fully open too - its my fave. I have a few more that are just starting to open - I'll post again when they do
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Karen, the vine weevils are here to stay until I do something to get rid of them! The beetles emerge around mid/end June, start feeding on the leaves then lay their eggs. Then you have the grubs which are most active in Sep/Oct and Mar/Apr and feed on the roots. AND then the whole cycle starts again. I tried spraying a few years ago but don't like using poisons and it didn't seem to help that much. I want to try nematodes this autumn and will probably have to do a repeat in spring. Has anyone else had experience using nematodes? Sharlene
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Hi Jeannie, lots of beautiful plants you have there. I really like your favourite (Kasuma) one as well. Hopefully, now that you have them out of the greenhouse the spidermites might be less of an issue. As for the last one....definitely a girl not a (blue) boy....Lol :D Tell your husband, I vote for more patio instead of grass too.... Giggle
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Marica- I live in the woods, but not where there are bears! And when I first put this stuff in my pots something had definitely been digging in them overnight. It wasn’t bad and was probably a raccoon or a squirrel. I would not be using it if bears were close by! What fertilizer do you use?
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del_s
7 years ago
Always good to see someone else whose season is just starting. Seems like everyone else is bemoaning the end of their season and I have yet to see most of our blooms. If the hail doesn't get them. I always enjoy your photos.
mantis__oh
7 years ago
Great group shot of Mystical Elf, Edward. Of course, what we expect from you.
Julia WV (6b)
7 years ago
Lovely photo of Mystical Elf. Have you had it long?
shive
7 years ago
Mystical Elf is a bright start to your season! Wonderful!

Debra
Maryl (Okla. Zone 7a)
7 years ago
What a sunshiny way to start the season. And a lovely pink Rose to boot. I assume this is New Dawn the climber. They can reach up to the sky and produce a jaw dropping display in the spring. You are off to a good start..........Maryl
Edward_Kimball
Original Author
7 years ago
I have had Mystical Elf for at least 5 years and it is a sizable clump.
DebbieON zn4-5
7 years ago
I, too, have finally had my first blooms this week. Everything seems to be slow in getting started. My first bloom this year was Dominic, which I haven't seen in a few years, due to the rather heavy shade it is in, but a decent clump just the same, but it never bloomed there. Aside from everything being behind by a good week or more, I have had some odd early bloomers. Scapes are alot shorter than normal. Looks like a stellar year for earwigs though!! And the yellow jackets made a nest on the ground in the raised daylily bed, I discovered by surprise.
tarheelgirl_7b
7 years ago
Mystical Elf is very eye catching! Your New Dawn rose is a lovely color.

Lori
organic_kitten
7 years ago
Beautiful start, Ed. New Dawn is a wonderful rose. I have posted photos of the monster mine has become, starting with a band, and now a good fifteen feet wide. Ed, the thorns on it are very mean so take care when you handle any of it. Nancy, ask other gardeners around you, but the last three or so years, I have noticed fewer Japanese beetles each year here, and this year I saw only three beetles and they were gone in two days! Maybe the birds know they are food now.

kay

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