Please Name Your Five Top Roses
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Comments (17)If my memory serves me correctly, a man by the name of Carl Pallek had a first rate rose nursery in Saskatchewan in Canada, selling mainly Kordes roses. I was a Canadian customer and they were first rate in comparison to other nurseries selling roses.When he got to retirement age, none of his children were interested in carrying on the business. He closed it down and moved to Ontario. When Rene Palatine came to Canada from Switzerland, having owned an organic nursery there, Mr Pallek helped him set up his business in Ontario. The Palatine nursery is still an organic one in Canada. Palatine holds a high standard for their roses and will be carrying many of the older ones. When I downsized from my large rose garden, I sent over 80 pieces of budwood from my first rate older roses that I got from Vintage and other OGR nurseries in the States. So hopefully you will be seeing some of your favourites on the list in the future....See MoreTop five - anything goes
Comments (24)Nippstress, I grew Bad Worishofen in Alabama; what a sweet little rose. Most of my roses have not started blooming yet or the early buds have been eaten by the rats with long legs and flat teeth - but among the ones that are there that I make a beeline for every day just to see them again Wasagaming, a rugosa/bourbon hybrid, fragrant, heavy bloom ... Till Uhlenspiegel, a five petaled hybrid eglantine with a reddish/pinkish bloom. The bush is three years old now and has had a pretty good bloom this year. I can't wait until it is mature and covered with those blooms of such a striking color, So healthy, no foliage issues at all for me. Purple Skyliner, this rose is three now and just covered with small purple blooms and buds. My three Louise Clements are in a small hedge in front of PS. One of them has a a tangeriney-orange bud. I dream of when the three Louise Clements will be mature enough to have a full flush at the same time the PS is in bloom. Yumm, one day, I hope. For now, I love looking at the one bud and the Purple Skyliner blooms. Sibelius - love the shrub form and the multitudes of blooms it is covered with. Belle de Crecy - I cut three and put in a blue and white vase with some dark purple columbine; I just love it. That shrub is so generous a bloomer. Mousseline - this reblooming moss rose is covered with blooms. It is three now and I think should bloom off and on all summer. Ask me again my favorites when Heritage finally gets some blooms, when Munstead Wood blooms, when the rest of the gallicas and Henri Martin Bloom. Georges Vibert should bloom for the first time. And alba maxima should bloom soon; I love that rose. Okay, I am stopping now. But here's Wasagaming...See MoreName your top five...
Comments (9)I really need to taste some of the more exotic ones before committing to adding them to my small yard. So far I grow 2 blueberries (Gulf Coast and Sharpblue), 2 low-chill nectarines: Flordaprince and another from Bay Laurel in Calif that have produced zilch because of the extra warm winters. When I run out of room they will have to leave. Also have Key Lime- not exotic but a must. And I love growing pineapples from store bought fruit. I'm adding bananas soon because we eat a lot of them. I remember eating Barbados cherries growing up in So. Fl but they don't knock me out with desire to plant them. I tried litchi when living in Naples and it never bore fruit so I'll skip that for now. Neighbors have a mango tree and you know what they say about a boat holds true for fruit trees: better to have a friend with a boat than own it yourself. :-) I have no room for a tree that size. I'll be gifting them tomatoes. I've planted a blood orange that is years from producing and a Meyer lemon with fruit on it now. I think the next fruit I'll be on the lookout for is thornless blackberries. I think Lisa (gcmastiffs) said they did well for her. That's it for me until I taste something wonderful and HAVE to HAVE it....See MoreMy 2016 top performers: Name yours too!
Comments (23)Thank you for the kind complements. Sorry I didn't get back right away. I got my flu shot and sure enough, it gave me the flu. Feeling better but still very sore. Trust me folks, I don't spend a ton of money (which I don't have) in and on my garden. To me there are 4 big things to growing great roses. #1- SOIL!!!! The root system MUST be happy for your rose to perform to it's utmost. Your soil must be a good, sandy loam. #2- Food. Sorry folks. Roses don't know how to read. I've tried everything with different results. Over the past several years I've been using a 10-10-10 with all the good trace elements on the 1st of every month. I also use fish emulsion twice in the spring and twice in the fall. That's it. Inexpensive and easy. #3-Water. Water is the life blood of the rose. And I do understand about drought. I lived in Fl. when we were under water restriction. We were NOT allowed to water our grass but were able to hand water our "plants" twice a week by hose between the hours of 6 PM and 6 AM. Now I'm under drought conditions, again. During the growing season I hand water everything two, sometimes three a week. #4-Fungicide spray- I'm NOT going to get into any "discussions" about this subject. If you choose to grow any roses that are prone to black spot, rust or powdery mildew, you MUST keep the foliage on your bush's clean and on the bush. Just that simple. If you grow disease free plants, ignore #4...See Moreingrid_vc so. CA zone 9
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