My first home-grown bunch, plus a climber question
Morning all, I hope you have a great start to this beautiful weekend.
I woke up at 6 am and couldn't fall back asleep--decided to get up and poke around in the garden. This led to me cutting a few flowers and then I ended up with this. I began this gardening hobby last summer, so this is actually my first bouquet I've ever put together with flowers that I've grown myself. It's made of Hot Cocoa and Imogen roses, Bartzella peonies, and Arizona Shades blanket flower. It's admittedly not fragrant, but it looks pretty at least. Does anyone else have Hot Cocoa? It's supposed to have a smell but I can't detect any. This is the single rose that has been in my yard for a few years, so it should smell by now I think.
I also have a few questions/would love some input. I planted a few climbers last summer (6 of them). I put obelisks up for the two that I planted early summer that have had more of a chance to grow. For the others, this is their first real growing season. I didn't put any supports in place for them. I plan on training them on obelisks as well. Can I wait until next spring to do that? Or should I get them contained within that now? I just think the giant, mostly empty obelisk looks silly on the two roses that I do have them on, but I don't want it to be a pain if I wait. Which leads me to my Zephirine Drouhin.
I have the ZD on an obelisk that is very close to a corner column for my front porch. After I put the obelisk up, I thought it looked odd sitting right below the pillar. I have read the ZDs can get pretty huge so I was planning on training it up the obelisk and then around the pillar (photo above). But I'm afraid this looks silly. Why not train the rose up the brick wall behind it and then on to the pillar? Well, I didn't really consider that because I'm not sure how I would train it on the brick wall. Any advice here is appreciated. Should I continue as I have it set up now, or should I get rid of the obelisk and train it on the wall somehow and then up the pillar?...
And finally, just a few more photos. My Gertrude Jekyll was one of the only grafted roses I planted and she is definitely out-performing everybody. She smells so freakin good.... Smelling her at the nursery is actually what pushed me to plant lots of roses. It was the first time I ever smelled a strongly-perfumed rose. After that I found out that roses were grafted, read up on the differences, and started to buy own-root. I am kind of glad though I have a few grafted (the Imogen's were grafted too) that are very vigorous and ready to be thoroughly enjoyed.
Teasing Georgia just started blooming and oh my gosh, she's stunning. I'm so glad I picked her. She doesn't have a scent yet but I know she will eventually. I picked a few butterfly blue scabiosa to make a bouquet with her because the combination to me looked like a match made in color heaven. Then I got to playing around with my camera and decided to sacrifice a few of the blooms for the sake of this photo (I used to be a photographer, so, I like to get creative).
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Comments (21)Awesome pics of beautiful plants. Thanks for sharing! I've always known pothos as Scindapsus in the rare occasions a latin name is mentioned for this plant. Seems to be like coleus, there's rarely any confusion with these common names. But you had been told "Epipremnum" so I googled to see if this was one of the plants recently renamed or if there are actually 2 kinds of pothos from different genuses? My research was inconclusive although I didn't go too long, figuring someone more knowledgeable than me will let us know. L_in_FL there are several different passion vines, but I think most are hardy to zone 8. Just wanted to warn you the caterpillars of the gulf fritillary butterflies will likely eat every shred of leaf and even the buds/flowers off of this vine if a mama lays her eggs on it. You mentioned this is on the front of your house, so this may not be the look you're after on a front wall even if you are in full favor of feeding some butterfly caterpillars. If it's new this year, without nectar-source plants nearby, that's probably why you haven't had this happen this year....See MoreNewest floorplan and a bunch of questions!
Comments (28)Rhome, Please forgive my sleep-deprived brain. :o/ I got the Rejuvination catalog a couple weeks ago and was thinking of it when I asked but got the name mixed up. It has been crazy around here with over a month of RSV making its way through our poor little kiddos. :o( Anyway, I like looking through that catalog. They have anything from 50's/60's retro to cozy cottage to 1500's Transylvania castle. Fun. :o) I like the idea of stainless counters but worry about how much is too much. I used to work at McD's and don't want to feel like I am back in that era of my life! ;o) Malhgold, I am putting the prep sink placement to a vote today. Someone had pointed out on another thread I believe that I would need to be able to open the pantry doors all the way for the roll outs to function and the doorway trim may get in the way if the pantry is deeper. I will check with the cabinet people when I actually get to that point. I definitely would prefer deeper if it is a possibility. :o) Celticmoon, Um, are we a little territorial perhaps? Interloper? ;o) Yes, no matter how much help I have in the kitchen it is always MY kitchen. Just one of those things. Now bringing up a walk in pantry when I am trying to finish up things so hubby can start wiring/plumbing - that is just cruel. :oD Actually, I do have a large pantry and freezer area in the basement so I think a walk in would be overkill here. Swspitfire, Please explain the 30" counter depth to me. Are the cabinets underneath that deep then or do you bring them out from the wall or what? Is it going to be difficult to get countertops that depth? What is the thought behind having deeper counters? Bmorepanic, You are as young as you feel, right? :o) Yes, I won't forget about those fridge doors again. :o)...See MoreHELP! It’s my first home & I have no idea how to decorate!
Comments (24)Congrats on the new home! My husband and I also purchased our first house recently (been in it about six months) and we're in a similar boat (though with our ratty college furniture instead of hand-me-downs), embarking on an adventure to cohesively decorate the place. While I do have good sense of how to decorate and am not worried about going about it, it would have been really difficult even for me to decorate immediately, so I'm not concerning myself with it (we also have a bunch of house projects in the way). Basically, a good strategy is to take your sweet time and not worry about stuff not matching/ suiting your tastes or the walls not being quite the right color right now. Hone your vision and slowly collect pieces that adhere to it, adding to your spacing or swapping something out. Also, simply live in your space for a while. Be by yourselves, have a friend over, have lots of friends over, host a fancy dinner party and also a casual barbecue. Observe how you and your friends interact with and move around in the space - this will handily inform what kind of seating you might need and how you want to arrange things. I'm always taking mental notes when people are over lol....See MoreRose ID question, pink climber in NC
Comments (5)Thanks mad_gallica! Googling around for more pictures of Dorothy Perkins roses, I found this one: https://roguevalleyroses.com/rose/dorothy-perkins/ which shows the fringed stipules, as you say. It also shows the same density of blooms and the sparse large thorns, and shows the same color pattern of pale newly opening buds and pale outer petals. This other page: https://www.parksidenursery.co.uk/buyroses/dorothy-perkins-rambling-rose also shows the fringed stipules, although the bud density seems higher (although I don't know if that could be a matter of how well maintained the roses are, and some of the flower bunches in the first picture in my post actually show 5-7 blooms in a single bunch). Another discussion of a very similar looking rose found growing along a road side in Missouri ( https://garden.org/thread/view/108285/Help-identifying-naturalized-pink-roses-in-Missouri/ ) seemed to settle on Dorothy Perkins as a likely candidate....See More
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