Healthy & prolific own-root roses
Manasi K
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Lilyfinch z9a Murrieta Ca
6 years agoMy best healthy and prolific rose is hands down "flamenco Rosita ". Mine came from chamblees last spring as a little one gallon plant . It is now at least 8 ft wide and 5/6 ft tall and absolutely gorgeous and unstoppable! And fragrant!
It's the hot pink rose. This angle isn't the best but it's amazing
I agree you should post this on the regular rose forum ! You will get many excellent responses
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Comments (6)Thanks for the info harryshoe. I have also had lots of Rose de Rescht suckers from a plant I bought 16 years ago that turned into a 4' x8' colony. It was magnificent but a few years ago voles or some type of root-eating animal chewed up the entire area. Fortunately they didn't eat all the roots but I now have about 20 little plants. I also had deer eat the foliage which didn't help. They are now fenced out and I applied something to discourage the voles so hopefully they will make a comeback. I am also in eastern PA. and would be interested in any of your favorite antique roses....See MoreOwn roots-roses?
Comments (6)You would probably find it easier to compile a list of roses which are awful on their own roots then the reverse. If you still have a J&P catalog from before their demise, check to see what they offered as New Generation Roses, their own root ones. If it wasn't on that list, they probably (though not guaranteed) found the rose not to root easily nor grow well own root. Case in point, they tried to offer Henry Fonda own root but found it didn't grow well enough so they went back to budding. That should help take care of that bunch. Week's also offers a number of theirs own root. If they don't offer the variety you have in mind, it's as likely at this point they hadn't gotten around to that one as it is it won't work well. As for Austins, I'd imagine any of them with any vigor to them should work acceptably well in most situations. The really awful plants (Dove, Fair Bianca and other weak, spindly ones) probably won't make great plants own root. Yes, you will always find sources for them as own root plants. You can find Grey Pearl as an own root plant but that does NOT mean it will be any good, just that someone is offering it that way. You're probably going to find this whole exercise easier and more valuable if you ask which roses are awful on their own roots. I can guarantee you it'll be a whale of a lot easier to compile! Kim...See MoreOwn Root Tea Roses after a cold zone6 winter
Comments (13)What I've seen about Tea wood is based on not-cold but other damage. Often I think that Hybrid Teas are wimps. If there's a canker on one side of a stem, here, at least, that canker will gird the entire stem by midsummer and (poof) that stem is lost as is those roots' potential to replace it with a cane that will last through the next winter. Teas, OTOH, can tolerate canker around a bud union, even if its ugly, so long as it's on woody wood, half a canes' phloem and xylem is enough to support outer growth. The same thing happens when a certain riding lawnmower (not driven by me) hooks a mature cane and breaks it but not completely. Again, the father out growth can survive with about half of the xylem and phloem going to it. If you see black, if you see a magenta halo that halo is indicative of active fungal activity. Cutting just below that isn't enough. You need to go down two or three inches below active fungi. Remember that fungal hyphae extend below where you can see the problem. I worry that we are going to get a PM outbreak similar to the one we had after the post Easter freeze. When the growth normally would be mature and resistant to our PM strains.....I fear that our just maturing growth will be vulnerable (but that means that some of our roses will have survived.)...See MoreSoil pH & soil type & fertilizer for no-spray own-root roses
Comments (130)Carol: Khalid in Pakistan grows Augusta Luise since 2014 & he posted lots of pics. in Organic rose forum. It blooms well for him at 115 F, he mentioned that it likes high-calcium fluffy soil & alkaline pH. He fertilized it with wood ash & chicken manure in a pot with loamy and fluffy soil. Leaves of Augusta Luise is glossy dark green, but smaller in size. Glossy dark green means it prefers alkaline pH, and smaller leaves mean it likes fluffier soil. For Augusta Luise: SKIP GARDEN LIME (22% calcium and 12% magnesium). Pelletized lime without magnesium is a better choice. Garden Lime has 12% magnesium which is "sticky glue" and makes my clay dense (my black-gumbo clay was tested exceedingly high in magnesium, and multiflora-rootstock hates my clay). Garden lime makes "concrete" out of any soil. We have 3 days of rain & high humidity and the bag of Garden Lime dust (inside 2 plastic bags) turned into sticky-putty .. that would kill any cluster-root like it killed Felicia. The pale and dull leaves own-roots absolutely hate Garden Lime. The tiny-leaves own-roots also hate Garden Lime. These prefer gypsum (fast calcium released by its 18% sulfur). Note below pale & small leaves of St. Cecilia in my dense high magnesium clay: Below is with acidic rain: Below same St. Cecilia, without sulfur in acidic rain (gypsum and sulfate of potash also has 18% to 21% sulfur). Note the pale leaves in high magnesium clay get worse WITHOUT rain: The glossy & dark-green & large leaves can handle Garden lime and my thick & dense clay better, such as Betty White:...See More
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Streisand Fan
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6 years agoEveryday that passes, I love Perle'dor more..ALWAYS blooming, fragrant, and the blooms are to die for..
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