please list your favorite red roses!!
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Comments (24)I've been thinking now and then about this thread for the last few days. I grow quite a few greens each year and am often trying something new, altho' I have my favorites. Sherilou, you may be even more oriented this way than I am and I'm going to be looking for this Spigariello Liscia and maybe the Portuguese Cabbage next year (if you have a favorable report on that one). It doesn't seem too esoteric to mention several that have only 1 or 2 seed sources. I've grown them for a few years. An Asian green than can be a salad ingredient if you like is Maruba Santoh. It is supposed to be an open-head Chinese cabbage but has leaves more like bok choy or an Asian mustard -- but mild. Senposai is a hybrid of cabbage and Komatsuna. This is a very tender green when cooked and, if you give it plenty of room and have favorable weather it doesn't bolt to seed right away and grows quite large, well into summer. After broccoli is just a memory, you can enjoy the flower stalks of Senposai but it is also wonderfully tender and flavorful as a young green. Finally, I like bok choy and have grown it for about the last 20 years. The green stem Shanghai-type, Mei Qing Choi has long been a favorite. Lulan baby bok choy was something new this year and I was very pleased how tender this variety was. More seed has just gone in the ground and I'm really looking forward to having more of Lulan choy to enjoy again in the fall. Steve...See MoreWhat is your favorite red Old Garden Rose?
Comments (54)I'd like to put in a good word for Tradescant. Not sure if I can say it's my favorite, but I wouldn't be without it. I can't seem to figure out how to post pics, but I know Patrick (my enabler on that one) has some incredible pics of it that might be nice to add to this thread. General Jacqueminot might actually be my fave - at any rate, every time I see it I say that. Trouble is, it is very prone to BS. But, oh, the perfection of color (whitish-bluish blush backing) and nodding, full blooms... Celeste - love your pic of General Washington. It has long been on my wish list, but I have hesitated to get it, since so many HPs have disease problems and (to me) awkward plant habits. Is it a lot of trouble?... Souv. du Dr. Jamain is the second most remarked upon rose in my garden the first being Jude the Obscure). Smoldering, saturated, and trouble-free. I call it my Dr. Huey substitute. Am I the only one who actually really likes the old doctor? They are in bloom all around town right now, and I can't go anywhere in the car without taking long detours just to see them all. I know they'll look like hell in a few weeks, after bloom, but gosh, so will some of my HPs! :) Call me a simpleton, but Dr. Huey was actually the rose responsible for my interest in old roses. Since childhood I loved that mysterious, arching old rose that graced so many of the older houses around here. If I could only have one, I thought... Well, when I grew up and moved back to my small hometown, I went searching on the web for that old thing. Couldn't find it anywhere. But, I found lots of other gorgeous, smelly old roses and lovely specialty nurseries and this wonderful, helpful forum. And it was here that I finally learned the identity of my first rose obsession. And nobody likes it. Why? I still don't have one (nearly acquired one a couple of weeks ago, but that's another long story...), but sometimes when I drive about town, looking at all the spectacular Dr. Hueys, I think just for a moment that maybe my grand, elaborate rose show is still not the equal of a single mature specimen of the reviled old doctor. Am I just crazy? Over-romanticizing my first rose love? Or are there others who appreciate this rose too? With humble pleas for tolerance of my heretical views, robiniaquest (or should it be Dr. Hueyquest?)...See MoreYour Favorite Red David Austin Roses
Comments (33)I have only two ('Prospero' and 'The Prince'), but I don't know if I'd recommend them for you. They're not tremendously vigorous (mine are own-root), but I saw that as an asset for where I planted them. I wanted them because I grew them once before, and was willing to put up with their "issues" to enjoy them again. If I had the space for some of the more recent (and more vigorous) DA reds, I'd get some of the others mentioned here. I think the more vigorous ones would be better bets in your climate, since they'd bounce back better after Winter damage. :-) ~Christopher...See MoreYour favorite and/or best red roses
Comments (55)I got Dolly Parton this spring. It's been OK but I'm not thrilled with it. It doesn't have the form I was expecting. Usually the centers are really messed up and it could use a few more petals too. It blows rather fast so it would be hard to get to a show. It also black spots quite a bit....See MoreDiane Brakefield
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