Some Mystery Roses in the town of Niles
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ID of Rose found in town settled by Italians in Northern California
Comments (18)It's been growing all summer on a southeast facing slope, basically sun all the heat of the day, with no water and expanding in size. Definitely a hardy thing! Big healthy canes compared to the 1/4" stems of the cut flowers that I rooted (only a few made it) in the spring. Would be a great grow on a slope and leave alone rambler. The scent was so powerful I smelled it on the breeze going 75 miles an hour and looked until I saw it up ahead and across the freeway! The bright pink flowers (what I call "hot pink") gave it away. It is growing at an almost 2,000 ft. elevation in uppermost Shasta County on Hwy 5. Hot in the summer and some snow in the winter....See MoreSome Great Rose Bloom This Year
Comments (17)Lilyfinch, we moved here 14 years ago. The first two to three years were basically demolition. The previous owners, of Finnish origin from Minnesota, had, reputedly, wanted to make it "look like Minnesota" (okaaaaaay....) and had planted more than 30 trees in the backyard (including the navel orange tree, oddly and severely pruned to a sculpted topiary-esque shape from which it has thankfully now recovered, various cedars, including Deodar, a dozen paperbark birches, a giant redwood and a smaller one, about a dozen privets -- don't get me started on privets -- a dwarf crape myrtle, and a couple of liquid ambers, and a central lawn, almost none of which looked healthy). You couldn't even see the now 40'+ valley oak, which was a suppressed tree of about 8' height. There was also the great old pepper tree that probably dates from the earlier homestead from which this housing development was derived (there is an old, ranch-type dump up in that corner where the pepper tree is where I often dig up old crockery ca. 1900 - 1950). The back hillside was 1/3 prostrate rosemary and 2/3 of that vile (invasive, ground-poisoning) mesembryanthemum ice plant of brilliant magenta purple that literally hurts your eyes, but there were also some Grevillea, a few Ceanothus, and a couple of good native toyon and (stab to this restoration ecologist's heart) an invasive gorse. The other hillside, with Mrs. B.R. Cant etc. on it, was all English ivy and white oleanders with terrible scale around the ugliest large Deodar cedar I have ever seen (they are usually quite handsome). I either personally removed, or had removed, all of it, except the orange tree, the heritage pepper tree, the valley oak, the crape myrtle, and some of the more appropriate native/Medit. shrubs. So, the oldest roses are about 12 years old and most are 10 years or younger, including the 'Comtesse du Cayla'. That "Florence Bowers' Pink Tea" is just going on five years in the ground, from a gallon-size plant. Roses, and other plants, grow fast here....See MoreNew bed in town
Comments (1)Just planted radish, garlic and am looking for some cilantro and a few other things. NT...See MoreHelp choosing between Star of the Nile and Flamenco Rosita roses
Comments (28)@strawchicago z5, thank you for sharing all this information! I actually don't know what the soil is, I've never tested it. I do know it's somewhat hydrophobic, it's difficult to rewet when it dries out, so I try to only use it with plants like roses where I know I'm paying attention to the soil dampness. It's silty with some organic matter, a local landscaping company mixes it and they just called it "native soil amended planting mix". The roses planted in it are doing really good. I'd love to dig out some of the clay in the yard and mix it in with the amended soil but there are just too many tree roots, I don't have any soil to spare! Organic matter is hard to come by (inexpensively, I mean). I go back every fall to Minneapolis to visit and I swear that this year I'm bringing back bags of leaves that everyone bags for the city to take away, I'll bring back as many as I have room for! My only natural source of organic is pine needles and those take For Ever to decompose. Someone is gifting me with their old wood chipper so I'm gong to see if it's possible to break up pine needles with it. I also bought a fall "cover crop" mix to plant to start building biomass on my thin soil. My neighbor has AD in a container, full sun, it seems to do quite well, although I personally think it's time for a bigger pot! It's a pretty rose!...See MoreEmbothrium
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