Another Picture Thread...Farmers Branch Rose Garden TX
BenT (NorCal 9B Sunset 14)
6 years ago
I visited Farmer’s Branch Rose Garden near Dallas TX today. They are sponsored in part by David Austin, and have a huge selection of his introductions, as well as some OGRs and HTs. Here are some pics...
Ambridge Rose looking good...
Mme Antoine Mari, huge and healthy Tea
Neil Diamond, far and away the most fragrant rose here, among thousands of bushes. I grow it myself, good to confirm the fragrance is really that exceptional.
More to come....
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BenT (NorCal 9B Sunset 14)
6 years agoTess of the D’Urbervilles
Dame De Coeur
Good as Gold
Kathy’s Find
Munstead Wood (nice fall coloring)
Litchfield Angel
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Suggestions for good roses for the Austin, TX area
Comments (29)I used to live in Georgetown so know how hot it gets. I think Mike's suggestion of arbors is excellent. You could also consider a couple of crepe myrtle trees - White Natchez crepe myrtle is a tree that can take alot of punishment and survive well and bloom in the summer. The Natchez has a really pretty arching form and can give some height and interest to the wall and perhaps a bit of shade to the roses. In back of my horse barn in an area with all day hot sun, I have crepe myrtles and old garden roses [Maman Cochet, Mrs. BR Cant, Mon. Tillier, Mme. Berkeley, Georgetown Tea] planted together - the effect is beautiful. I have differing colors of the crepe myrtles - lavender [here is where you could include your lavender color], hot pink, light pink, white, red - really is striking in the hot summer when the roses are resting. I have also found that it really is true that mulching is important. I mulch my roses with horse compost then topdress with wood mulch from Home Depot. The roses thrive - the ones I didnt mulch dont look nearly as good. My suggestion would be to plant old garden roses first - and I also highly recommend the Antique Rose Emporium and Chamblees. I was just at ARE - bought several of the Pioneer roses that are supposed to be really tough. Also, I would like to recommend the Buck roses. Carefree Beauty is a good one. There are many other good ones - Eutin is a red that has literally hundreds of buds on it - really an eyecatcher. The noisettes - and I adore Crepuscule! - are very hardy. The ARE had a store in San Antonio, now closed, but I would call P.K. at the Independence store - tell her your growing conditions, and let her recommend. Get their color catalog and look that over. I think the really important thing for first year roses is to mulch and water. I did that with my above mentioned bed - now I never water them and they are fabulous. If you dont have much experience with roses, you will succeed with the old gardens - then branch out to the hybrid teas if you like. If you built an arbor, you might have some luck growing a couple of the Austin roses under it where they can get a bit of shade. A couple of tough reds are Cadenza and Cameron Bohls. I have both and love them. Dont forget about the Lady Banksia rose - both white and creamy yellow. They are marvelous in the spring. New Dawn should do well also. From what I recall of soil in your area - be sure and dig a big hole and incorporate good soil with the native soil. I have also heard - bought some, going to try it next time I plant - that a cupful of shale, which holds then releases water, is good to put in the hole of roses growing in dry hot areas. Good luck! Love the limestone on your house.......See MoreAnother new find: Hibiscus Rose Mallow,Lord Baltimore...
Comments (29)If anyone is looking for these, NOW is the time of year to be getting them at local garden centers. For anyone in the Denver area, you should be able to get them at Paulino's and/or Timberline Gardens. In their catalog this year, Paulino's lists these varieties: 'Lord Baltimore', 'Lady Baltimore', 'Clown', 'Crimson Wonder', 'Fantasia', 'Kopper King', 'Moy Grande', 'Blue River II', 'Southern Belle Mix', and 'Disco Belle' in all the colors. If you stop by there, be sure to ask for a copy of their perennial catalog. The heights of these, depending on variety, range from about 4' to 7' or more, and the flower size ranges from about 6" to a good foot in diameter. Each flower lasts only one day, but they are constantly replaced by many, many more until fall. Mine continued until almost Halloween last year. The wilting flowers will drop off by themselves in a few days, but to keep them looking neater (since there are so many flowers on established plants), I usually go around every couple days and pull dying flowers off--you don't need a scissors. If I don't have something with me to collect them in, I just toss them in a pile at the bottom of the plant and pick up the pile later. Last fall, when I was cutting them down for winter, I snipped off a whole bunch of the dry seed heads to use in dried arrangements. These are definitely NOT xeric perennials, and will require consistant watering all summer. They can be grown in wet to boggy soil, so you don't need to worry about overwatering them. The most important thing to know about them is that they come up very, very, very late in spring! I have 3 established Disco Belle's, and they didn't appear at all until the beginning of June this year. So be sure you know where they are and just wait--and wait--and wait for them. When they do come up they grow VERY quickly! BUT, she said with a tear in her eye, my 3 beautiful pink Disco Belle's that are supposed to get about 4' tall and are already almost 5', and just started blooming within the last 2 weeks, got TOTALLY smooshed down by the inch of rain I got yesterday in less than half an hour! I'm not really complaining since we need the rain so badly, but I sure do hope they're able to stand back up by themselves when they dry off. (It's raining again right now (Thornton), and with what I got overnight, I'm up to almost 2 inches now!. Boy, is everything ever green!) Here's a link to the Hibiscus info at Perennials.com. They list 17 varieties, but, unfortunately, only have pictures of a few of them. Happy gardening all, Skybird Here is a link that might be useful: Hibiscus at Perennials.com...See MoreHelp - New to Gardening in Katy, TX.
Comments (3)Hi, parupudi! : ) Houston is generally considered zone 9a, but I've put a link below that will let you enter your zip code, so you can make sure of your zone exactly where you are. I have a handful of little things to tell you; others here will have amazing advise they will chime up with (this is an amazing group of people)... AZALEAS--Feed them when they're done blooming. HIBISCUS--The danger of frost has passed, so it is safe to prune these. Cut one of the branches and have a good look--do you see any green? If so, it is alive! If not, it might be anyway--some of my hibiscus only had brown and white in the middle, but they are putting on new growth. I'd say give them another month before you really start to worry. My tropicals are waking up now and starting to grow, but they were looking pretty twiggy for a while! There is very little you need to do for hibiscus here, other than keeping them mulched and pruning them to help them be bushy and not leggy. OLEANDERS look very ugly after the winter's over--all grey and dead-seeming like a plant in a Tim Burton movie--but they come back. I pruned mine a couple weeks ago and they've got buds on them now. Oleanders are very dramatic about cold weather, but they usually come back in Houston without any problems. ROSES: We prune roses on Valentine's Day in Houston (just because mid-Feb. is the right time here, and doing it on V-Day makes it easy to remember). For your spring pruning, I recommend having three good thick stems coming out of the baseroots (let these be a couple feet high) and cutting off the rest--cut off anything thinner than a pencil, anything that is diseased or dead, any branches that are getting in the way of each other (we need good air circulation for roses here, or they get bad blackspot), etc. I have made the mistake of not pruning heavily, and I had very leggy, weak rose bushes that year. If your roses are well established, they can take being cut back hard like this. But don't forget that climbing roses bloom on old growth, so be sparing when you prune those, and try to keep the canes as close as you can to horizontal for good blooms. Here is a WONDERFUL site for how to grow roses in Houston: http://www.burger.com/roseindx.htm MANDEVILLA: If they're established, cut them back now that all danger of frost is over. They'll return from their roots. : ) Here is a link that might be useful: GW zone finder by zip code...See MoreRoseDango May 3, 2014 McKinney TX
Comments (4)Just came across your note on the mishap you had in the restaurant. The pics made my bones ache. You must have a high level of pain tolerance. Best wishes for a speedy recovery....See MoreBenT (NorCal 9B Sunset 14)
6 years agoBrilliant Veranda
Chica Veranda
Poet’s Wife
Darcy Busell
Dark Lady
Mary Rose
BenT (NorCal 9B Sunset 14)
6 years agoEglantyne
Olivia Austin
What!? I’m not a Rose, leave me and my toadstool alone!
Lady of Megginch
Abe Darby
bethnorcal9
6 years ago
Ken Wilkinson
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Vaporvac Z6-OhioRiverValley
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6 years ago
Apparently Houzz must have a limit on how many photos can be posted in a single day, as I was unable to post more last night, and there much more to show! Continuing on....
Boscobel (gorgeous) and Darcy Bussell
Linda Biscotti? (I’m sure my spell check messed up this one’s name).
Xochimilco (spell check was speechless about this one, lol).
Carding Mill
Coles Settlement
Dawn Star (quite nice Austin look alike)
Minnie Belle
BenT (NorCal 9B Sunset 14)
6 years agolast modified: 6 years agoMamman Cochet
Sweet Frances
La Reine
Lady Ashe
Brightside Cream (unusual horizontal habit)
Mary Manners
Cramoisi Superior
BenT (NorCal 9B Sunset 14)
6 years agolast modified: 6 years agoSouvenir de St Anne
Repeating Swamp Rose
Kronprinzessin Viktoria
Flamingo Colorscape
Kardinal Colorscape
Generous Gardener (every bloom seemed like it was missing a section)
Wollerton Old Hall
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6 years agoBenT (NorCal 9B Sunset 14)
6 years agoGeorgetown Tea
Julian Potion
Belle De Carniere
White Maman Cochet (the real thing is quite nice,but this pic looks like toilet tissue looting)
Lafter
Big Momma
BenT (NorCal 9B Sunset 14)
6 years agoStrawberry Hill
Falstaff
Wedgewood Rose
Gertrude Jekyll
Mrs B R Cant
lavenderlacezone8
6 years agoBenT (NorCal 9B Sunset 14)
6 years agoCrocus Rose
Proof that Butterfly Weed is well named
Princess Alexandra of Kent (below)
Lady of Shallot
That’s all folks. Hope you enjoyed the tour....back to work!
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