Teasing Georgia & Strawberry Hill, two perfect roses in my garden
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Comments (13)Caldonbeck, those photos are beautiful. Love the petals on top of the boxwood hedge - so evocative. I have CPM and TG both. TG is an established huge shrub - it's magnificent. CPM is about 22 months old - it'll be 2 in April. It's beautiful too. Both bloom about the same for me. I think CPM is more fragrant of the two. Mine is in a terrible spot: half the year in the sun, half the year in the shade of a building - in bad soil. It's impervious to these things. I think TG would be too. I think they're both great roses. LEH is new, I just put the bare root bushes in about a 2 weeks ago. I saw it in my friend Hoovb's garden and "had to have it". It will be a much smaller plant than the other two. It is also much, much more fragrant. It's fragrance is so powerful that it affects your sense of taste as well, at the back of your mouth, as you sniff it. I can hardly wait 'til ours bloom!...See MoreStrange Growth on Teasing Georgia
Comments (20)Nik, the brush killers are you mention indeed more effective against poison oak (and its evil cousin poison ivy east of the Rocky Mountains) than RoundUp is. My DH Tom is an amateur radio enthusiast and he has a couple of retractable antenna towers in the back part of the property, one in the midst of a bed of roses and the other further back outside the fence behind an old stable. We had that area out in the back cleared of poison oak with a Bobcat (small bulldozer) about ten years ago so he would be able to work there. Now it is just the new sprouts and bird seedings that I must work against. RU works fine for that tender growth, and as Catspa explained, it is less persistent in the environment, which is my reason for choosing it. If I did not work on the poison oak every year it would right back to where it was very quickly. Much of this area is a steep hillside, barely walkable, though it is level where the tower is. This is one of the places I have been planting trees. So far in this area two Quercus douglasi (blue oak), three Pinus sabiniana (ghost pine), a Pinus ponderosa (ponderosa pine), Cupressus arizonica 'Blue Ice' (Arizona cypress 'Blue Ice'), Pinus brutia eldarica (Afghan pine), and a Cedrus deodar (deodar cedar) have survived and even thrived, though a number of my earlier attempts failed. It is brutal out there, and I won't water past the second year. Well, maybe one or two waterings for a couple years longer in a really bad drought year. I think I could squeeze in one or two more trees, and perhaps I will, but I will wait a while. Because of our low rainfall, trees must be spaced well apart so that each has its own area from which to pull water. I'm just grateful that we have enough water to grow trees. I love them as much as I love roses. I don't kid myself that these trees will suppress poison oak altogether even when they are grown because poison oak is quite a shade tolerant plant. However it probably would not get enough light to form a solid six-foot-high thicket like the one that was here before. As for the vast ocean of shoulder-high milk thistles, my thought is that if I can spray enough to keep any from going to seed, we will eventually exhaust the seed bank that has built up in the soil. I hope that is true. We have already switched from discing for fire prevention to mowing, so we aren't stirring up the seeds anymore. And it is less shade tolerant than the poison oak is, so I am hopeful about shade suppression as well. I call my garden 'Hundred Roses' as a play on the name of the town of Thousand Oaks in the southern part of the state. But it has quite recently occurred to me that I could just as easily have called it 'Two Towers' in honor of Tom's antenna towers. Rosefolly...See MoreTeasing Georgia Growth
Comments (54)Thank thank you Carolina girl. Now I just need to decide on the top portion my friend calls me everyday to ask have I decided how I want to do that. He calls me his designer! LOL! I am pleased with this little side gate as this is using the old Gothic fencing that's well over 70 years old from my house. Lots of it brought it and I couldn't use it for anything at my house so he took it in his recycling it there. It just makes me so happy to see it in use. I especially like the closing mechanism that I saw on a neighbor's gate and copied. I just can't decide if I want something that's full Arch, a slight Arch or something coming up to a peak as I originally planned for the overhead section. I'm just not sure if they're too many Peaks happening. LOL! I always wanted a walkthrough gate and since I don't have one at my house I might as well have one that I can visit. JC, those roses look fantastic. I can't believe how much they have grown. I planted a teasing Georgia and my friends Garden my garden last year so looking forward to growth like yours! I might plant in other climber on the backside of this Rose to mingle with the perennial blue. I'm hoping I have one called Golden Olymp which would look very lovely I think together....See MoreStrawberry Hill rose
Comments (8)I think a lot of these DA roses just naturally tend to "climb" in the warmer climates. Case in point, my SUMMER SONG, which is a rose that DA will not sell on our continent anymore, (claiming it does not do well here) grows about 8ft, sending up long climbing canes. And as many of us know, both GOLDEN CELEBRATION and GRAHAM THOMAS pretty much grow like climbers. Same with CHARLES AUSTIN. There are others too... My STRAWBERRY HILL has stayed pretty short... like maybe 3ft so far.......See Morebayarea_girl_z10a_ca
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