Spring time in Southwest Florida !
jofus, ( Englewood, Fl zone 10a )
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Comments (11)Hi Marcia I'm south of Sarasota too :-) and my roses have been living on rainfall only since September or so. (After we had the irrigation water tested and it was so saline it was killing plants. So we turned it off.) Winter is the dry season here (haha, lately not) so summer with it's scorching heat will be the test for my roses. They did well in September when the heat was still pretty brutal and no rain. I mulch with cardboard or several layers of newspaper and put shredded bark mulch on top to look pretty. Works great to keep roots cool and slow evaporation. You should consider some of the Bourbon family like Souvenir de la Malmaison, and her cousins. I have found them to love our climate and they are fragrant beautiful OGR's. This is Deuil de Dr. Reynaud, a climber. He's grown 5' since planting in early summer 2009 and is green and healthy through all this cold weather. Well actually all the roses are green and healthy right now. Good luck with your garden. Denise...See MoreIs Floridas spring time cool enough for tomato blossoms?
Comments (5)I guess it depends on where in Florida you live. Florida is divided into 3 regions. North, Central and South. I live just above North Florida. It was 84 here today. 15 degrees above average. Our last frost date is March 31. Most poeple plant way before then. Find out from your local agricultural center what tomatoes do best in your area and when to plant them....See Morespring time in North Florida
Comments (4)I am glad to see people alive on this forum again. I mostly have hedychium, but also have the common pinecone, a few curcumas and the green shell ginger.I purchased many from gingersrus in Tallahassee Florida this past year. Really did well expecting all of them to flower this year some are already a foot tall. They really fill out the beds for summer. most are planted between young camellias and azaleas for right now. in a few years I will have to move them but by then I will have new beds done for them. Glad to hear from you. James Maloy...See MoreWhat happened to the Fortuniana roses in southwest Florida?
Comments (6)hey dave, I have the same complaints. merrygro has closed and that sale is just JP clearing out what they may have left but the florida location is being developed for houses, go figure. if H.T.s are what you like, then I would buy up what they have. they ship fedex which costs more, but in the end you will like what you get. have you checked out coolroses.com in west palm bch? they are great and will ship to you. there are other companies too, like becnel, S&W, Baygarden who all do fort rootstock. my issue is that I want old garden roses on fort but they only come own root. so, here is where my insanity has lead...I ordered a plant cloner and a fortuniana rose bush and intend to learn how to bud/graft the own-root roses that are easy to find and comparatively inexpensive and put them onto the fortuniana plants I will root from the parent rose. this is going to take some time but at least I wont feel like I have to keep the lowes/H.D. roses in a pot just to keep them alive. michelle...See Morejofus, ( Englewood, Fl zone 10a )
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