How did you protect your garden plants?
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Comments (17)Looking at your new list of roses, I doubt you will need to worry much about wind damage. Perhaps when they are very young, but after established, they should be fine. If your experience to date is mainly HT's as you indicate, then you'll be in for a pleasant surprise. HT's are notorious for suffering cane damage in heavy winds when in full bloom. For instance, all but the most sturdy HT varieties are essentially long sticks with big blooms up at the top. This makes them very top heavy in heavy wind and when the blooms are filled with rain they tend to bend over or just break off at the base or down the cane. Some thoughts on your new roses: - Cinderella Fairy Tale- Almost tip hardy in Toronto. Almost bullet proof in terms of disease resistance, but can get some very mild late season mildew here. Just like everything else in our gardens... - Morden Blush- Beautiful and tip hardy in most winters in Toronto area. Will get some BS by mid-summer, but can usually shrug it off and keep blooming. Expect about 30% defoliation from lower leaves. Few roses bloom as heavily and repeat as well as this rose if it is deadheaded after each bloom cycle. - Crocus rose (Bit of a risk. I'm hoping I grow to love Austins) Not risky. Very hardy and decent disease resistance. Early season mildew more of an issue than BS here. Needs a few years to grow a frame and can be floppy in the first 2 years with the big blooms. Not much fragrance for an Austin, but a winner in cold zones. - Julia Child- Nice yellow Floribunda with a great fragrance and is a good bloomer. Fades from bright yellow to off-white yellow. Stays pretty small here and will likely get some BS by mid/late summer. A nice rose though and pretty good hardiness for a yellow Floribunda. - Betty Boop- Blooming machine and very eye-catching when in bloom. Decent winter hardiness, but will also likely get some BS here by mid-summer. A favorite of mine and a good rose. Good luck and enjoy....See MoreKoi Gardens-Jerome: Did you get your plants?
Comments (54)cnetter, you should offer! I've seen websites out there that say they are out in the gardens & can very rarely answer the phone. They prefer emails for questions & ordering online. I personally don't take any offense to that & can appreciate how hard of a business this is. I can't imagine how little he is making off of $6 clems & for him to hire a whole staff would probably put him under. I used to do inventory for a manufacturer & worked on a software program that deducted inventory as I ordered from the factory. Down to a science if you factor in damaged goods as a percentage. I was w/i literally 10 piece goods. Maybe at this point he is so put off with all of this chaos & feels like he has tainted his reputation that he will bail out. If I had that bad taste in my mouth I would see what I could do differently, but with that reputation on GWD would make me want to fold....See MoreHow you protect at winter your potted plants ?
Comments (17)Karen B, I understand about the rain concern. Try to set up the frost cloth so that rain cannot collect in the cloth between branches. One year in CA, I constructed a PVC box around my largest plumie and covered it with a tarp. We had a good rain and the rain collected in the top of the tarp creating enough stress that the box collapsed and broke the plant into many pieces. The next year I made the box higher on one end so it had a sloped roof and the water ran off instead of collecting. With the frost cloth, you may want to put some poles under the cloth and between the branches to tent the cloth in such as way to encourage the rain to run off, rather than collect. Water is heavy enough to break branches if it collects. What I do is to spray some water on the cloth after I install it to see if there are any places it collects, then put a pole under that spot to raise it up enough. Good luck. Mike...See MoreHow did you protect your wood flooring ?
Comments (11)I hate to be the voice of doom, and maybe this is an issue in new construction rather than a remodel, but you must make sure that your contractors, installers, etc., don't get lazy or careless because of the cardboard or masonite layer of protection. A dropped tool will still do serious damage. Also--and I can't stress this enough--if you will have something protecting the floor you must make absolutely sure that grit and small stones, etc., do not get caught under the protective layer and get ground into the floor. Someone should be checking the floor and sweeping it periodically to make sure it's okay. This is important after the floor is installed and even more important once they start sanding and finishing. Good luck!...See MoreOntario_Canada5a_USDA4b
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