Baby teas
needmoremulch
6 years ago
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Thought I'd share a few of my baby tea pot ghetto pics. They are growing up while I get the bed prepared. So far the most vigorous are Souv. d'un Ami, Laujuzan Tea, Le Pactole, Comtesse de la Leusse, Anna Olivier (not Bermuda), and Marechal Niel. Slowest growing are Comtesse Festetics Hamilton, Alexander Hill Gray, Alliance Franco-Russe, Devoniensis, and Jesse Hildreth (not unexpected). A few others are in-between.
Laujuzan Tea
Souvenir d'un Ami
Le Pactole
Comtesse de la Leusse
One of her blooms looks like Duchesse de Brabant:
The other one looks more like Mrs. B.R. Cant:
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Is this how tea roses look?
Comments (34)That's much of the confusion, catspa. We're all so used to the bolt, upright HT growth, which is a product of the Hybrid Perpetual influence, when we see how Chinas and Teas generate their mounds of growth, we're lost, confused and frightened SOMETHING is awfully wrong. But, it's just what they DO. I cringe thinking how many wonderful old Teas and Chinas have been butchered to death because the person holding the chainsaw had no idea. There is a small public garden in an historic home site here in this valley. A dear friend and her husband took on the restoration of that garden as their retirement project. There were massive old Teas which had been there for decades as well as quite a few they added. The couple would spend fall through spring here with summers in their Colorado cabin. The local rose society contacted "Parks and Wreck" with the request to hold their annual pruning demonstration in that garden. They "helped". Imagine a six by six foot Rosette Delizy "exhibition pruned" as you would a Veteran's Honor to produce three, ten inch flowers. The bush never recovered its former glory. Some actually died outright. It can be quite surprising discovering how much more heat tolerant these things become once they mature. A foot tall plant has roots about that long and they suffer from temperatures drastically. Let it become a six foot mound and not only is the ground shaded by its mass, providing it insulation from reflected heat and the roots from hot soil, but the whole plant absorbs the heat, dissipating it throughout the mass, permitting the flowers the protection they require not to fry. A six foot plant has roots much deeper into the cool, damp soil with a much larger root mass to take up the water the plant needs. They eventually become quite "thrifty", which is what has helped them survive in many abandoned and neglected spots. Kim This post was edited by roseseek on Tue, Apr 9, 13 at 14:29...See MoreAdvice to new moms in the 1940s
Comments (17)I guess most of us turned out half decent ... ... do you figger? Even the ones born before the 40s. Actually, in the early 60s, our son and daughter were raised in cloth diapers, except when we were away for a while, travelling, etc. Son was born in Korea and I remember that Sue had quite a time convincing me that I should bathe him! I guess that I was afraid that he might fall in the tub ... and break?! He came with us back to Canada when he was about 20 mos. old ... Sue could have told you whether he was "trained" or not ... but I don't remember. No potty chair ... so I imagine that we'd have had to hold him over the "real McCoy" ... don't remember whether we had a reducer chair to sit over the toilet. He'd just learned to walk unaided by a coffee table, chair, etc. a while before we left and he found the slow movement of the ship's deck under his feet rather unnerving ... or problematic, at least. We had several good laughs out of his attempts to cope with this new thing! Children born here have a "birth certificate", issued by each province, but son, born abroad, has a "Certificate of Citizenship", issued by the federal government, which sometimes causes some concern at borders when people have been accustomed to the other situation. ole joyful...See MoreI've never had 'baby tea' before :-)
Comments (5)Sounds like an Anne Geddes wannabe. (Does anyone else find those pictures extremely creepy?) And hey, flyleft, go easy on us witches! ;-) DH would say I'm very, very wicked.... bwahahahahaha!...See MoreOrdered some tea roses and have a few questions!!
Comments (8)What you see when you get own-root bands -- and even some own-root gallons -- is not the rose it will become. What you have is a rose-producing system. Cuttings are taken from the tips of canes, and they will continue to grow as if they are tips of canes. But their leaves collect sunshine and make food for the roots, which will later send forth new canes that are the start of the rose it will become. So what you do is baby them a bit with extra food and water, but don't "prune" them. Of course, cut off anything dead, and remove faded blooms. But in terms of the rose itself, ignore the "baby canes" it had when it arrived. When there's enough "new from the roots" growth that would allow the rose to survive on its own, THEN you can remove the "baby canes". How long will depend on the rose, but generally it will be at least a year. In the meantime, leave all those "rose-producing" leaves on it. You'll know it when you see it, even if you're not used to growing small own-root roses. If you step back and view the whole rose after it's put forth new-from-the-roots growth, those original "baby canes" will look totally out of place. Here's a pic to show you what I mean. The rose is Gruss an Coburg, and it came as a band in June 2015. The picture shows it in March 2016, after I brought the pot out from my enclosed back porch, where it (and several others) spent Winter. See the thin stems dangling off the edge of the pot? Those are its original baby canes. They grew a little longer and branched a little more than they were when I got the rose. The two stout canes grew new-from-the-roots the previous year. The picture was taken before I neatened it up -- and removed those baby canes. They did their job -- they fed the roots enough that new canes emerged. Don't remove them until what you leave behind is enough to keep the rose going. :-) ~Christopher...See More
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I have one (LT) Alana, that I got from rosepetals a year ago. It is a really pretty rose. I just planted it in the ground newly.
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3 years agoAlana, here is LT this am. It has been in the ground a month and seems vigorous to me. I do not know ultimate size.
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3 years agoLaujuzan Tea has made a nicely shaped shrub with foliage all the way to the ground. Lovely flowers, too.
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