Favorite places to order potted roses?
Melissa Mc (6b)
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Your top 5 favorite places to visit for the roses
Comments (17)My favorite 5 1.'The Florentine' which is the Old Rose garden at Morcom Amphiteatre of Roses' on the corner of Olive Street and Oakland Ave. in Oakland, California. Walk down the long staircase and look at the dates of introduction on the signs, inside the oval stone-walled area. If the dates are between 1804 through the late 1900's you're in the right place.. I love this park because in summer I enjoy walking on the outer paths where it is green and leafy with a few acres of tall trees..In early spring the Banksiae are in bloom among the trees, and also the wild roses we got from Miriam Wilkins estate. There is a gigantic rose that has been there for more than a decade, that I think must be R. brunonii and a couple R. moschata planted by the Noisettes. There are c. 2 dozen different cultivars of Pernetiana roses, and Tea and Chinas. a huge Catos Cluster' which on Manettii has grown to be more than 18 feet tall. It's a great place to ramble.. There are two modern rose gardens, too and a reflecting pool. Because by city law, the roses cannot be sprayed with anything, I go there to get cuttings from some of the healthier roses for our area... with my permission slip on hand. 2. Vintage gardens home garden. My idea of heaven, especially the south side of the house garden where two 25'+ tall 'Long John Silver' rosebushes bloom showing huge silvery white powder puff like roses, past those are many of the once blooming roses including 'The Garland' which are planted in a lush grassy area planted with other bushes, purple clematis, foxglove, increasing the beauty to a crescendo. 3. San Jose Heritage Rose garden. I do wish it had a shaded area with seats, and a drinking fountain and closer bathroom facilities for the aged, and the infirm. I've gotten heat exhaustion there more than once. 4.Lovely Luanne has a beautiful rose garden. Her yearly "whiffing event" is coming up soon. We've been neighbors for several years, in Oakland, and now in Richmond, California.. It takes a beautiful heart to grow beautiful roses...which she does.. 5. The Berkeley Botanical Garden' in California. I love their R. odorata and apothecary roses, and R. arvensis all planted near the Chinese Medicinal garden where R. rugosa and R. chinensis spontaneaa (sp?) are growing. Their R. odorata is covered with hundreds of large saucer like golden-yellow blossoms and blooms between March and April depending on how warm or cold its' been. It was more than 30 feet tall the last time I ooohed and ahhheed over it. I've been a tiny bit miffed at the folks who run that garden for their planting vivid red Florabundas ("for color") in their Old Rose Garden as I think it misleads the public. Theres' not a single Gallica in the Old Rose Garden and many of them, with the Hybrid Chinas would bloom well up on the hills where at least some frost and winter chill comes in winter. Lux....See MoreRoses and tea...does anyone have a favorite place to enjoy both?
Comments (13)This post has brought to my attention that I DON'T have a place to sit outside and drink tea or coffee. In Washington I had a bench under the apple tree in the middle of the garden, and another bench in the roofed front door entrance where I could sit protected from wind and rain all through the winter. Here, nothing. The wisteria pergola in front of the house would be fine if it weren't a chronic work site and staging ground for everything. This realization of my lack of an outdoor place to drink tea/coffee has reinforced my idea that we need a nice big oak between our house and the terrace of our second house. We might have to take up a bit of terrace, job for a jackhammer, and the tree would be big enough to do its job about the time I died in advanced old age. But posterity would have a place to pile pots and bags of sand and compost under the oak, and still be able to sit outdoors to enjoy the morning. Melissa...See MoreYour favorite place to purchase roses?
Comments (4)I think I've bought from virtually every online rose seller..lol...its an addiction that has resulted in over 100 rose bushes. These are my favorites: For Container Roses... 1)Chamblee's Rose Nursery: They have low prices, their plants come in trade gallons, and are very healthy 2)High Country Roses:Priced fair, 1 qt containers, quick shipping, healthy 3)Rogue Valley Roses: Excellent selection. Sells all roses in band size containers (3x3x6) and if you buy for roses you get to choose a free rose and get a bonus mystery rose! Bareroot: All these are about the same price, and I've never had a rose from them fail... 1)Spring Valley Roses: all are own root 2)Jackson & Perkins / Wayside Gardens: I've always rec'd large, healthy plants...mostly grafted though...which I'm not a big fan off. Also, I know that J&P has all their roses on clearence right now! Good luck!...See MoreWell, I placed my first freakin' zone 4 order! ROSES!.
Comments (15)LOVETOGARDEN, I would love to meet you! I have no idea of my luck with roses here - I'm just trying out those I know are hardy in the ground, and potting up the ones I had in the ground in z7a that I can't live without but that will never, ever make a z4 winter in the cruel tundra. ;) And I would be most grateful for your divisions! I have a third of an acre, which is nothing to a lot of people, but after my 20' x 100' NYC that included a house and parking pad, this is paradise! Your rose list is fabulous! There are some I'm very interested in: Harrison's Yellow Teresa Brugnet The Fairy Pauls Himalayan Musk Comte de Chambord Do you need to do anything for these for winter? And Etoile de Lyon will, indeed, go into a barrel. Your experience with Wally World roses is typical - there's always a lot of debate in the Roses forum about whether the 50/50 shot at getting what it's labeled is worth it. I've gotten some pretty ones that bore no relation to the tags! But generally, the inferior health of these plants doesn't, to me, make buying them worth the effort required to get them going strong. Although that isn't to say I don't go weak and succumb on occasion. ROBBIE, Rose nurseries will ship to you at a time appropriate for planting in your area, and some will ask when you want them. I'm asking for May 1st. So we don't have the question of what to do with them now - they won't come until spring. I've had good luck with Wayside, which others on the Roses Forum will either support or (vociferously) dispute. Pickering in Ontario and Ashdown in I think NC are very, very reliable. Ashdown is pricey, but Paul Zimmerman's stock is of unparalleled quality. Did I spell unparalleled right? Pickering is very inexpensive, and the plants are all grade 1 1/2, which is the highest grade. Ashdown will actually earmark a nice plant for you on a first come, first served ordering basis, so you don't get lousy plants because you ship after every place but Fairbanks. PENNY, There are roses that really don't get blackspot, even here. You have to learn to decipher rose catalog-speak, though - they almost all lie about hardiness and disease-resistance. If they say "tendency towards blackspot," you can bet that you'll have defoliated sticks by August. Hey, all - deer! What works to keep them from eating my treasures? I read a funny upstate gardening book, and the guy said, "In the morning, they'd come from the east and eat every tender new bit that sprouted through the night; and in the evening, come back from the west and graze everything I planted that day." Broke me up laughing....See More
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