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Are milk box roses obsolete?
Comments (22)There is a lot more to this argument. Lets say you buy fresh boxes that are dry and the roses are just beginning to bud. This is the way I used to buy boxed roses and the best time to do it because the roses are near dormant and it is early in the season when you should be planting. If you do it this way it makes absolutely no sense to plant the box soaked, punctured or otherwise. It will just retard the start that the rose gets. Alternatively it could be later in the season when the rose is growing strongly or even blooming and the box is wet or even soggy. In this case plant the box because the hair roots will be growing into the wet cardboard at that point and you will have trouble getting it cleanly out of the box anyway. This is not a good way to plant roses and not what I was talking about but if that is what you are doing you might as well plant the box....See MoreRose Silk/Chocolate Silk/Milk Chocolate/Chocolate JMG ??
Comments (4)Hi Leng Leng, I'll write you tomorrow [ok, today] with your other questions. This is what "I" have grown: >Rose Silk with Picotee Edge Variegated Leaves >Rose Silk with Picotee Edge Leaves NOT Variegated >Rose Silk with Darker Rose Star in Center with Picotee Edge Leaves NOT Variegated >Chocolate Silk with Picotee Edge Variegated Leaves >SOLID Chocolate NO PICOTEE Leaves NOT Variegated >Rose Silk with Slight Picotee Edge Leaves NOT Variegated >Rose Silk TIE DIE [Cross] NO PICOTEE Variegated Leaves Today I got another 'New' Cross that is a >VERY PALE Dusty Rose Silk NO PICOTEE Variegated Leaves [I 'think' - need to check out the leaves again] All of the above are 3" - 4" Blooms. The Rose Silks are more of a 'Dusty Rose'. Some are VERY 'Silky' - so I can see how they earned the name 'Rose Silk'. The Chocolates are a darker Color and do fit Cat's description. I had my first bloom this week of the >'SunSmile Brown', however, I didn't watch the bloom throughout the day. The bloom was under 2" - But, this was the first bloom, so that is all I have to go by. Variegated Leaves and looked just like a miniature Chocolate Silk. I have also gotten CROSSES from my Rose Silks that had 5" -6" Blooms. >Rose Silk with Picotee Edge Variegated Leaves >Rose Silk with Darker Rose Star in Center with Picotee Edge Leaves NOT Variegated >Rose Silk TIE DIE NO PICOTEE Variegated Leaves All CROSSES, and ALL EXQUISITELY BEAUTIFUL I'm sure I've left some out that I've grown, but this is what I can think of at the moment. Hope this helps, Emma...See MoreOT Peony Poppies with roses - good idea in theory, but...
Comments (64)I love a very full, cottage look, so I tend to actively seed poppies in areas I know will be more densely planted come spring. I loved how the poppies emerged from drifts of Jupiter's Beard, Statice, Lomandra in shadier spots, and some other plants in the front yard. It helped limit the sight of the lanky plants certainly. Amidst the roses that are grown in a more traditional way, the poppies stand out like sore thumbs. However, I love the flowers and it's not a public rose garden, ha. I can grow lanky poppies and not feel one bit worse for it. I tried some of the 'Erewhon' and 'Blue Shift' Sweet Peas from Annies in that area this year and they were beautiful! Great cut flowers. It's probably a bit cooler here though. I had them on lattice amidst other climbers. 'Jeri Jennings' is next to some volunteer dark purple sweet peas. The picture above shows some sweet pea foliage, but the flowers mostly finished before 'Jeri' started blooming recently. Right now I've got Nigella springing up in an area that is almost exclusively populated by succulent/drought tolerant plants. It's a strange look, but fun until I consider that I'll need serious gauntlets to rip out the dead Nigella soon. Puya are amazing until you weed around them and I'm mostly growing the smaller types like P. mirabilis and alpestris. A lot like roses actually!...See MoreOT, sort of, rose merchandise
Comments (16)This is just me, but I would only buy a t-shirt if it had a bit longer sleeves (couple of inches more). So you should do market research??? about what your main audience is. For example, I'm thinking (though not certain) that older people like me (58) usually like longer sleeves. But if your target audience is younger...then the sleeve length is probably fine. Another thing...being a gardener...I hardly ever buy anything white, because I tend to get dirty. Again...it depends on your target audience...younger people like my daughters really like white....but then they don't garden. What do you mean by "give room for potential."??? The rose is beautiful and more in line with what I would buy. I would buy that rose on a hoody (not white) or on a t-shirt with a bit longer sleeves and not white. I hope that helps. I wonder what others think....See Moreladybug A 9a Houston area
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