Can anyone tell me which conifers grow well in 6b?
kmkare
7 years ago
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sc77 (6b MA)
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I would love to grow pomegranates in zone 6b. Please help!
Comments (16)I would go for it Rick, I think your location is looking even more encouraging, since it is really a zone 7 and not too wet, I'm guessing. Here in NM, pomegranate does very well throughout the middle and lower Rio Grande Valley, with no protection, and no obvious dieback. Most of this area is in zones 7 and 8, but single digits are not that uncommon, especially where cold air settles in the lowest part of the valley. Some of these areas have reached record lows of -19F! I believe this was in the 1970's, but I would be surprised if there aren't at least some tender plants surviving from before that time. There are some very old pomegranate and fig trees in Albuquerque. I'm experimenting with some pomegranates here in my zone6/7 area and so far so good. I'll be able to say more when/if I get fruit. I started with hardwood cuttings which take very easily, so I think this is a plant that is very condusive to experimentation, since it is easily propagated, and grows well with a mimimum of care. Siting in a warm microclimate is definitely very helpful, as others have already mentioned. Good luck...See MoreHey Anntn6b, could you please help me to understand?
Comments (8)Time to get past the colors. In my garden, I first see potential RRD from a distance. Remember how I said in your other post that roses are predictable? They are. If you see a mass of leaves within a huge rose, often it's just a birds nest. But occassionally it's witches broom, which happens when the back up leaf axil buds break, break again, and may break as many as 21 times. So that there's a cluster of new stems emerging from where there should be just one. Colors also draw us, especially when they are unexpected. And this is the hardest thing, because I wasn't used to seeing colors on the bushes...only on the blooms. That very deep reddish purple color comes with some roses.....it's always been there, we just haven't noticed it. But when it comes to Rose Rosette, we HAVE to look past the distant view. In my garden I have come to demand that there are three different symptoms before I say RRD (followed by expletives). Color is just one. And for color, I have asked on here (and will continue to ask) is anyone seeing that color on the same cultivar in my part of the country. Then I look at leaf symmetry, at leaflet symmetry, at the edges of the leaves, at the stipules (I place a lot of emphasis on stipules), on the spaces between leaves (internodal distances), on the buds themselves...some lack the hip part, some have too many rows of sepals and no stigmas...all sorts of things basic to the rose that go wrong. Aggierose, what you're going to have a real problem with is that your leaves are hitting serious summer heat too early. Those roses are putting out what are potentially good leaves (check the leaf edges), but the afternoon heat (I saw Dallas' temps yesterday and that was hot) is going to crisp up some leaves and stunt others. So you're going to get bushes with big healthy leaves from last month and early this month followed by skimpy leaves. (In my garden, the early spring leaves were small, followed by great honking big leaves from April when we had one great slow rainfall with 2" of rain and lots of N thanks to thunder storms, and now we are back to dry.) So we both are going to have to ignore leaf size and get to the up close look for the basics tield to the genetics of the rose. RRD messes up the rose morphology in ways that we can see, but we have to look closely. Sadly, this looking will continue as long as we grow roses. But knowledge means we can continue. We just learn more and share it....See MoreCan you tell me if i should be growing own root or grafted?
Comments (8)This is a complicated issue. It is no wonder you are confused. It varies according to the variety. Some roses are weak growers, and need the strength of a robust rootstock to enable them to perform. You see this mostly with some (not all) of the HTs. It is my experience that robust own root roses do catch up with grafted roses, but that weak growers do not. Growers in Florida have a nematode in their soil which attacks some rose varieties. Some do fine on their own roots, but others need to be grown on a particular rootstock (Fortuniana) to withstand the nematodes. Roses in cold climates are not really hardier on their own roots. What happens is that the cold can kill off the top growth of a rose while the root protected by the soil survives. If it is on its own roots, it has the potential of growing back true to type. If it is grafted, you will get the rootstock, not the rose you selected. One important issue is virus. Rose mosaic virus (RMV) is spread by grafting. If either the parent plant or the rootstock is virused, the new rose will be virused. Similarly, if you take a cutting from a virused plant and grow it on its own roots, that new rose will also be virused. Some people think that own root roses are less likely to be virused. This can be true, but only if the parent plant was clean. It is thought that healthy own root roses will probably live longer than grafted roses, because grafted roses can build up scar tissue at the graft and eventually fail. But a grafted rose can easily live twenty or thirty years, and no doubt longer. One member on the Roses forum mentioned having some grafted roses that were at least forty years old. I personally suspect that grafted roses will not live as long as some of Jaqueline3's hundred year old teas and chinas, but then most own-root roses don't get a chance to live that long either. Her garden stayed in the same family. If you sell your house, expect the new owners to replace your garden with their own. For this reason, longevity may not be an issue for you. I kinda like the idea of roses that outlive me (and I plan to be here a long time), but that is my romantic streak expressing itself. Rosefolly...See Morewhich will do better in zone 6b - grace or port sunlight
Comments (1)I'm a 5b zone and I don't grow Port Sunlight, but Grace has done well for me for the past two years. She stays small but is healthy and a good rebloomer....See MoreToronado3800 Zone 6 St Louis
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