mme ernest calvat transplanting questions
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Comments (10)kittymoonbeam, thank you very much for the detailed information about this rose. That is very helpful! Pam, what a great idea to grow MEC over a ladder! I am glad to hear that you agree with kittymoonbeam that the disease resistance is improving with age. Jeri, thanks again for your input. I will follow kittymoonbeam's advice. I definitively will give this rose a shot in my garden. For me she is too beautiful to not trying to grow her. organic tosca, thanks for the book recommendation. I have heard got things about this book before, but never got it. Now I really have a reason :-). malcom manners, thanks for sharing your experience with MEC. Also thank you for the correction of the name. From now on it will be Mme. Ernest Calvat for me. Unfortunately I can't change the headline of the post anymore :-(. lori elf, thank you sooo... much for posting a photo and describing your experience with MEC. This rose looks so lovely in your garden. I really like the way you have trained her around the pillar! Christina Here is a link that might be useful: Organic Garden Dreams...See MoreAll about Bourbons
Comments (45)jbfoodie has said in a sentence what I was struggling to explain about Madame Isaac Periere - the same, but different :) The canes are heavier, but as Olga says, they also suffer from a short productive life. It is quite possible to grow Zepherin Drouhin and her sisters as shrubs. They make good climbers exactly because they happen to produce canes which will go woody and last much longer - so they don't have to be removed as promptly as the 'LCB's'. By using these older canes to form a framework and keeping the younger laterals to a manageable length a good shrub can be developed. I know we all have somewhat different climates and conditions, but I think there are obviously some inherent traits in the Bourbons we can all see. Best wishes Jon...See MoreRenae, Mme Ernest Calvat and friends
Comments (13)Thank you Judy. I have never cut baptisias for bouquets but I think I will write Niche Gardens (where I got "Purple Smoke" and some of my alba) and ask if they ever have. At the nursery they often have bouquets of fresh-cut flowers around the sales desk and baptisia would look good in a bouquet....See MoreHeirloom/Antique Roses and Rose Cuttings for Trade
Comments (21)elle, I have many of the roses you listed, but one I've always wanted is Kronprincessin Viktoria. Between my rose addiction and major construction that happened in my yard last year, I still have over 50 roses in pots that need to get into the ground. I hope to have most of them done by the end of this year. WHEW! I'll let you know when I have enough growth to take cuttings....See Moreladybug A 9a Houston area
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