Peggy Martin, perfect plum, South Africa and few others
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Comments (63)Just browsed Nortland Rosarium website, they are in zone 5b .. and they never sell Felicia nor Perle d'Or .. both of them are NOT hardy for zone 5. That's why I prefer rooting them from cuttings, rather than buying them and losing them through zone 5a winter. http://northlandrosarium.com/table.php Northland Rosarium offered Peter Mayle in Sept. & Oct .. now they offer Rouge Royal as own-root instead. Pretty Lady rose and Miranda Lambert are also offered now. I also see Rhapsody in blue, Love Song, and Twilight Zone offered as own-root. So tempting !! I would buy them if they survive more than 5 years in zone 5a. I'll wait to see if my new approach of digging down to 2.5 feet for drainage & put tons of leaves on top & water in dry spring is successful before buying more roses....See MoreMidSummer in Africa (Warning : Photo Heavy)
Comments (40)Cori Ann, that was a hilarious story, I could not stop laughing! By the way, I posted some pics of TRM climbing over an arch on your post, hope it can help in answering your question. By the way, I also saw you ordered Figaro Panarosa - you will looooove that rose - it is one of my favourites with very little thorns (I have it espaliered on the fence between Claire Rose and John Claire). Please update us later on how it is growing in your garden! Beth and Cynthia: Acropolis is very pretty! We don't have it here but I wish I could see it in real life. Koko Loko is not in commerce here either but I obtained one plant from Ludwig (I actually had two but one did not make it). I rarely see the brown colouring on it but I love the grey tones as well. I do however wish I could get a rose with the same colouring in a nice old fashioned shape. I will try to post some more photos soon but will do it on the rose gallery :-) Liezel...See MoreMarch 2020, Week 5
Comments (132)Johnny, thanks for the link. I an sorta working that way. I was over in my wildlife garden building some mounds for winter squash about an hour ago. I gathered the material late last fall. i have some unwanted fescue over there, and an old road bed I am trying to work on. The first work I did on the old road bed was around 50 years ago. Anyway, this past year I would drag organic matter and pile it on the old roadbed. I would also dump a bucket of extra dirt over there when I could come up with one. I built 4 pads for winter squash from the material that I had gathered by dragging my pasture cultivator through the brush hogged fescue. I hated to tear the pile down because it was so pretty with crimson clover, fescue, and other very green growth, but I needed the material. I already have a pile of old burned trees piled to plant Seminole pumpkins on, I hope it will be a hugeikultur bed at some point in the future. I will have to talk to the grandkids about that because I wont be alive when than that pile rots down. If I see no interest in the hugel idea I will burn the pile before it becomes an eye sore. While I was in the wildlife garden I checked the berry plants I ordered form Simmons Plant farm, it looks like all 25 Kiowa blackberries and the 5 elderberries are starting to grow. Johnny, above you can see the type of material I am building the pads for the pumpkins and squash out of. Above the first compost pile you can see my log pile across the highway. The piles here are old hay and manure....See MoreOverwintering band roses in zone 6a??
Comments (13)Cynthia, I have been (knock on wood) pretty lucky re: voles and mice. I've never had them go after my over-wintering pot ghetto; I think if I did, though, my first step would be to just remove the straw, since my guess is the warmth there would be what they are after. I do have some climbers in big pots that live right next to my house year-round. I used to pile straw all up the plants, but one year I did get vole damage there. So anymore, I mound a little straw around the base of the pots, but not reaching up to the surface, and that seems, so far, ok. I'm actually not sure I even need the straw there - most of these climbers are rated to zone 3 or 4, and anyway, right next to the house like that they are probably pretty sheltered. Btw, I second the suggestion to be particularly careful with Mel. I've had him here in zone 6 for many years, and he's huge and thriving. But he's in a pretty sheltered spot right next to the house, and in his first 2 winters I protected him (mounded straw and a leaf-bag "cone"). I have a little Mel that I'm experimenting with in a non-sheltered spot. He got through his first winter (last winter) fine, with protection. I'm going to protect him again this winter, and then in the 3rd winter, leave him to fend for himself. In my experience, 2 winters seems to be the magic number to protect slightly less than bone hardy roses. If Mel can't survive in that spot after 2 years of protection to become established, then I'll decide that I can only realistically grow him in sheltered spots (which I'm running out of, so that will mean a second Mel is not in the cards for me)....See Moresharon2079
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