roses...snow is coming!!
I wish I could enjoy this part of the year better. But there's just no smell to my roses. But here they are anyway...since none of you can smell them anyway! LOL
This is Carole Bouquet. I wanted to smell this rose, and the only way was to cut the bloom. This (in a pot) is taller than I am by about a foot.
Memorial Day trying to bloom!!
Neil Diamond
Evelyn reminding me of why I love this rose. Barely bloomed this summer, probably because it was too cool and wet.
Strawberry Hill - smells fabulous no matter what the weather...and there's a whole lot of buds coming. Trouble is that snow is coming too (Tuesday). Although snow isn't really a deal breaker, and our temps are still good enough for the roses to bloom.
Holly Bells still blooming. Hasn't stopped at all. This is a rose the bees and I hybridized from John Davis. I'm hoping it will be winter hardy when I eventually plant a cutting of it.
Baron Edmund de Rothchild - this is the only rose in my garden that has blackspot. It's not a problem, since it only gets it at then end of the season. But anyone wanting to get it in a more problematic area...be warned. :)
Pretty Jessica finally has a bloom that opened. It's been 3 years. Does not like it here so far!!
Carol
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The above link is to buy coop-poop on amazon. It's zero odor chicken manure NPK 2-4-3, with 8% calcium. I have the bag wide open inside my garage, and it doesn't stink up like alfalfa meal.
Here are some pics. taken today, Sep. 30, showing the result of SOLUBLE phosphorus in Coop-poop in branching (both roots and side-stems). Below is Dee-lish bought end of June as own-root:
Below is my 2nd Dee-lish, bought mid-May, note side-branching from the main trunk:
Below is Tchaikosky, also taken Sep. 30, mulched with pH 8 horse manure, but no chicken manure. Alkaline clay at pH above 7.5, made fluffy with gypsum.
Below is Sept. 30 bouquet, with Pink Peace, and red W.S. 2000, plus half-opened Tchaikosky, striped Neil Diamond, and yellow Strike it Rich:
Below is Austin William Shakespeare 2000, always clean foliage, thanks to chicken manure & horse manure. The hose is over-flow from rain-barrel which dumps tons of rain on that rose. Pic. taken 3 days of constant rain. Highly recommend this rose for disease-resistance, plus blooms in less than 4 hours of sun. Pic. taken Sept. 30.
Below is the same Sept. 30 bouquet, but placed next to lower-branching of Dee-lish (bought mid-May). Dee blooms at the bottom as well as the top:
Below is Comte de Chambord. I didn't give it chicken manure, thus no branching. Blooms are mushed up by 3-days of rain, taken Sept. 30:
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