Bucket of blooms. Chrysler Imperial and Sally Holmes

Kristine LeGault 8a pnw

5 years ago

Wow, wow, wow

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5 years ago

Maybe it’s my ranch-y roots, but I actually like the look of the prepping bucket of blooms, where I just throw them in to prepare, better sometimes than the arranged vase!

I think I need a big vase shaped like a bucket! ;-)

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Keep in mind that it is WAY easier to grow roses in California than pretty much anywhere else in the country. The semi desert climate reduces disease pressure to near zero, especially for blackspot, and no Japanese beetles. This explains your experience with Angel Face. Many roses that grow well enough in CA will do much poorer elsewhere. I would expect Chrysler Imperial to fall into this category too. Actually, I tried four times in NorCal to grow CI and each and every one failed miserably. Weak growth, and got blackspot where no self respecting rose would think to succumb. Memorial Day is slow to get going in spring for me too but I live in a very cool spring climate. Mine never blooms before Fourth of July, where most hybrid teas are blooming by mid June, and the climbers are starting to bloom in late May. I used to grow Bonica. I trimmed it with hedge shears. Seriously. Whack it back when you do your spring pruning. It's not a hybrid tea. No finesse necessary. I have two Marie Pavies. Lots of bloom, low maintenance, stays on the small side, no fragrance.

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ziyouzizai: Sorry for the belated response, have been busy killing japanese beetles and cutting blooms for the vase. It was in 2014 that I tested Milogranite in pots, and the flowering WAS NOT as good as MG-soluble for roses NPK 20-20-20. Milogranite practically has zero potassium. Fantastic idea to soak red-lava-rocks in ACIDIC rain water, I tested it for the past 3 years and that works really well. Since pH of red-lava-rock is high at 8.2, one needs an acidic agent, like rain-water at pH 4.5. If rain-water is not available, I put gypsum (19% sulfur) and vinegar in a bottle with red-lava-rock, along with my pH 9.1 tap-water (very alkaline). That's cheaper than buying sulfate of potash NPK 0-0-50, works well, but doesn't have the iron & trace elements like red-lava-rock. Also if your roses are grafted on Dr.Huey, they flower tons in the 1st year, but will be stingy in the following years, UNLESS THEY GROW THEIR OWN ROOT. But even if they grow their own root (on top of Dr.Huey), they can't bloom as well as the ones bought as own-roots.

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Beautiful pics. Love the Memorial Day, pinkrose. Daisymeowmeow, THANK YOU for the Tess pic! There are a couple of us growing it as a climber, ie. Cori Ann, and except for one photo on the DAUK site, I haven't seen any others. You're lucky to have such a green thumb as I'd be thrilled to have had that growing up a trellis.; ) Anyway, a wonderful visual that helped me imagine it growing with Mme.A.Carriere, Quietness and First Crush. I will have MAC on a tall wall and Tess on a perpendicular balustrade on a landing. Can not wait!

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5 years ago

That happens to me sometimes. I like the way they look in the bucket and I just transfer them exactly that way into a large vase. But the watering can is just plain cute.

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Beautiful combination Cori Ann, so many blooms. I was wondering how many CI bushes you have?

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jim1961 / Central Pennsylvania / Zone 6

5 years ago

Wow great!

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5 years ago

Thanks!

Sara Ann the blooms there are from 2 Chrysler Imperial bushes, but I have 8.

:-)

rosecanadian

5 years ago

Oh my!!! Amazing and beautiful!!! :)

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fragrancenutter

5 years ago

Gorgeous roses of course, but I see your sea statice is doing well too!

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5 years ago

Thank you! Yes the sea statice is doing well in pots for me. I really like adding it to bouquets. Thank you so much for the inspiration to try it Fragrancenutter!

nanadollZ7 SWIdaho

5 years ago

Oooh, mouthwateringly (is that a word?) gorgeous. I would love one of these for dinner, the blooms look so luscious. I like both containers, too. Does CI have a scent? What a rose! Diane

Cori Ann, PS--is your sea lavender/statice grown from those seeds I sent you? You have made great use of them, and every time I see the sea statice in one of your bouquets, I turn a dark shade of envy green, and tell myself I should have tried growing it, even if it would be an annual here. That stuff is just wonderful and has the most stunning color. Diane

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Diane I’m sad to say the sea statice seeds didn’t come up. :-/ Either my soil is too acidic or the birds got them. I bought starter plants and put them in pots when my little seeds failed. I’m sorry! Thank you so much for sending them though. The gilia you sent me DID come up and seems very happy!

Chrysler Imperial has a very strong scent. It’s one of the things it’s most known for. It’s also a heat lover. :-)

nanadollZ7 SWIdaho

5 years ago

Cori Ann, I'm sorry to hear that, but I'm not surprised--probably birds. I'm sure the quail would have eaten every seed I sowed. I do have some things coming up from seed, but those seeds were sown away from the quail hangouts. I meant to tell you I got a kick out of the gilia. It's a funny little flower. I wish I'd gotten Chrysler Imp instead of Rouge Royale last year. It's available locally--or was. I'm enjoying all your amazing roses and companions--especially the climbing pinkie on the umbrella trellis. I want that! My Colette starting blooming May 15 which shocked me. I thought it would be another week or two. She's a monster this year. If you ever want some of those Lauren's Dark Grape poppy seeds, let me know. The birds don't like those seeds. Diane

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Sheryl May 8a

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Cori Ann I was referred to you by another user. I am my first time Rose and our landscaper planted this raspberry cream twirl. I think I have determined that it is a climbing rose, which is what I had hoped for. He also planted several other miniature climbing roses along the same wall as I want to cover as much of the wall as possible. This is the second summer I have had it and I hope it is not too late to start training it. I tried a trellis but there is so much gravel underground from where they built this retaining wall that I cannot stick one in. My husband is going to run horizontal stainless steel cables across the length of the wall so that all the roses can be trained to it. I know absolutely zero about roses so any advice you could give me would be much appreciated.

suncoastflowers

5 years ago

Beautiful as always Cori-Ann! I love the watering can as vase.

Kristine LeGault 8a pnw

5 years ago

Sheryl, I love what you have going on in your yard. The boulders are fab. We are on a search for the big boys this weekend, hoping to get one big enough to cover up our heat pump.

Your roses are off th o a good start. It is going to be beautiful.

Cori Ann, no wonder CI has remained so popular, what a beautiful rose and the fragrance is the best. And you have 8, are they all together or are they spread around your yard?

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Hi Sheryl. Your Raspberry Cream Twirl is off to a great start. Have you tried starting a thread on the rose forum asking your question? You will get lots of great answers and lots of help that way. :-)

When you do that, you may also want to include your general location or climate info, since growing roses has so many local nuances in each of our climates. Here in the inland Bay Area of CA, it gets very hot and dry. Raspberry Cream Twirl seems to handle the heat really well in my yard. It also gets HUGE. It is a vigorous climber here. The canes tend to go straight up, so I tie them all laterally. It grows very fast, so that’s a lot of tying! It’s almost thornless though so it’s not hard at all. It is definitely going to need those wires soon, so hopefully you hubby can get that done quickly!

I don't fertilize here, but that’s only because my soil is very rich. I don’t spray anything for diseases or pests, but that’s because I like to have a permaculture/organic garden and it’s not hard to have that in CA. I defioliate it in the winter because roses don't defoliate on their own or go dormant here.

I would start a new thread asking some of the additional questions so everyone can chime in, help, and give you some local advice pertaining to growing roses in your area. :-)

jim1961 / Central Pennsylvania / Zone 6

5 years ago

Looking good Sheryl May!

Again nice bouquets Cori Ann!

Sheryl May 8a

5 years ago

Cori Ann and Kristine. Thanks for the advice. This is my first time doing anything on Houzz other than looking at pictures. I am an American living in Germany in the Northern Bavaria region. No idea about the zone, but it is much milder here in both directions than my home state of Indiana. My hill is steeper and longer than it looks in pictures. Started out with just boulders at the bottom but soon found it was just too steep for doing any kind of weed control. I would’ve loved to had the same stones as a second retaining wall through the middle, but they would’ve had to completely trash our yard with a backhoe to lift them up there. They were able to carry the man-made stones by hand so my plan is to get roses to grow on over it to hide it.

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Sheryl your hill looks mighty steep and long, even in those photos! My experience with Raspberry Cream Twirl will probably be a little different than yours in Bavaria since it rarely goes below freezing here, even in the winter. We get a couple frosts in the early mornings during January, but never any snow. It will probably still grow vigorously for you, it just might have a longer season here to grow more. You also probably wouldn’t need to defoliate it or force dormancy since the weather will do that for you in the winter.

You can see how yours is already growing long canes, so the sooner your hubby can get those wires up the better! You will probably want to tie the main canes laterally along the wires, but if you tie some of the lateral canes on the wires too it will probably be fine. The lateral canes can get REALLY long too. If you have more questions about it, maybe try starting a new thread so everyone can see it and help you out! :-)

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