A candid look at my roses
The good, bad and the ugly. Here are some of the roses I have blooming.
The Prince. Camera never captures its correct color. I tried with to fix with post-processing adjustments, but it is not possible. It is more purple than red, but by ARS it is red.
Johan Strauss:
Unknown yellow -- if you can, help me identify it. I bought it about 7-10 years ago.
The Prince:
Molinieux over exposed. This is part of the ugly. I am controlling these buggars better this year. I haven't had roses in my main rose beds from late June to the end of August for about 15-years on account of these critters.
Queen Elizabeth - beetle free!
Hawkeye Belle
In past years, by July, they have chewed off every rose bud before they opened. These at least opened this year before the chewing got started.
Stretch Johnson
Hop you mostly enjoyed, and were only briefly revolted.
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My rose bush looks like it's dying. Help please
Comments (24)How much water is it receiving? Looks healthy fo me. Look on underside of yellowing leaves for any black dots, which could indicate the start of a fungal disease called black spot. You can remove those leaves & any fallen leaves below the rose. to prevent the spores from reinfecting the plant. Also apply mulch around your roses. This helps prevent fungal spores found naturally in the soil from splashing upward when it rains or you water. The mulch also acts as a weed block and decreases watering requirements by keeping the soil below moist. Use about a 3” layer. Don’t pile the mulch against the canes either....See MoreWhat Rose Would Be a Good Candidate For This?
Comments (10)I have 8 climbing roses growing 1 to 3 stories up my house on the Southern and Eastern side (in Sacramento you might take Kim's advice and only use the Eastern side). The climbing hybrid teas & one hybrid gigantica (Belle Portugaise) end up with the structure in your picture - bare long canes at the bottom, and then bushy bloom at the top where the canes are horizontal. The climbing Cecile Bruner, the banksie lutea, and the hybrid winchurana Sombrieul are all bushy over 100% of themselves, and are more work and need to be seriously pruned at least once a year to keep them on the house - they get so heavy that they want to fall over and explore the rest of the garden, the driveway, the neighbor's yard, etc... Anyway, I would highly recommend trying it - the tie up possibilities are as stated above, and if you use a climbing hybrid tea they work fine. For the much heavier roses, my DH has installed metal plates and horse hitching rings. When we had our house painted we took all 8 of these roses down to about 8 feet, pulled them away from the house, and wrapped them in burlap. By the time the painting scaffolding came down 5 weeks later, they were sending new shoots out through the burlap! Here is a picture of my banksie lutea about 12 months later - it has only achieved 2 stories in height, not back to three yet. You can see how bushy it gets. Jackie...See MoreGood Candidate for a Mailbox Rose?
Comments (26)My oldest original Schmidt's Smooth Yellow, which is in a large pot with an open bottom, so it is undoubtedly rooted through the bottom, is about 4' tall, measured from the dirt level in the pot. It is also about 4-5 feet in diameter. This is with NO pruning whatsoever, so I am sure it can be pruned better. It is a polyantha. Mine gets some high level partial shade from tall street trees in the summer. It started on its "Spring Flush" about a month ago, and has almost as large flushes throughout the Summer and Fall. It is over 10 years old, and so far I have not found even ONE thorn (prickle) on it. I have 2 others plants of it, much younger - no thorns on them, either. Totally healthy with no spraying. We are in San Rafael, zone 9, about an hour's drive from Sacramento. We do not get quite as hot here as they do there in the Summer. The original plant I took the cutting from (we estimated it was planted in the 1930s or 40s, and house was empty for several years before it was demolished, so they rose was getting no care at all) was taller, trained on a house, so I do think you could train it how you want. Jackie...See MoreLooks like my Jackson and Perkins rose from Witherspoon is virused.
Comments (25)Or, you have spider mites or something sucking the sap from the foliage. It more resembles that to me than RMV. Though this is only anecdotal and not "scientific", Ralph Moore, who operated his nursery (Sequoia Nursery) for 70 years and grew roses for nearly 90, stated several times over the many years we were friends that he had never been able to transmit RMV via any method other than grafting/budding. And, he TRIED. He was also able to maintain roses free from viral infection for over half a century, even when grown closely with obviously infected ones. Dr. Walter Lammerts, who raised Queen Elizabeth, explored radiation effects on roses and shared radiated plants of Queen Elizabeth and the radiation induced mutation, White Queen Elizabeth with Mr. Moore. He had rows of easily 7' tall bushes of them. In the adjoining space, he grew numerous stock plants of his Pink Clouds which he used for the miniature standard stocks. it's the stock upon which Burlington Roses buds the majority of the budded roses she produces and all of the standards they sold at Sequoia for decades. That Pink Clouds was virus tested in the last year or so and found to be clean. While viruses may be 'tricky', in roses, they are much more difficult to transmit than some would have you believe....See More
Vaporvac Z6-OhioRiverValley
4 years agomark_roeder 4B NE Iowa
4 years agolast modified: 4 years agoI can comment. I have a small rose bed behind my downtown office. This is a photo of The Prince, today. It is coming up on its second bloom flush, but most of the blooms on the second flush are yet to come.
It is a David Austin rose. I have this on the south side of my office. In this small rose bed it has been mostly disease resistant, but I did get some blackspot on it this summer. This bed is fairly protected, and I increased my spraying after the blackspot occurred with Immunox, and I know once you have blackspot it is not supposed to go away the rest of the season, now I don't seem to have blackspot on any of the roses in this bed, which I cannot explain. Most roses in this bed do not develop blackspot even with very limited spraying because they are more immune to it due to the superior growing conditions behind my office.My building is shorter than some of the surrounding buildings on the east and west side. These roses have reduced wind exposure. I have a microclimate here that is probably more on the order of Zone 6 or 7. The roses here generally have grown better than they do at my home. This year the roses in this bed have not done as well probably because we got down to 30 below twice this winter, and this spring and early summer we had a lot of cloud cover and a lot of rain, and this area is shaded in the early morning and early evening by the buildings.
At this location this bush rises to about 4.5' to 5.0' in height. It has a 4.0' spread. It has a perfume scent that spreads because of the reduced wind exposure. I have one of these specimens at home that is a runt that has gotten to 2.0' tall with no spread. It was in a bed I paid little attention to, and the one at home I transplanted into a better location two weeks ago. Hopefully it will start to develop better.
I used to take care of roses at a municipal park, and had a specimen of The Prince planted there, but I could never get the city to take down trees shading the rose bed. That specimen grew poorly due to shading. The colors on this photo are more true to life than in other photos I have taken.
Vaporvac Z6-OhioRiverValley
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