Is it Ebb Tide or not???
bart bart
3 years ago
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Comments (4)Looks good, just leave it alone for now and give it consistent water and full days of sunlight. The pot seems small if you're keeping the violets. I love violets, but the surface rhyzomes will send deep feeder roots in a pot and compete for water & nutrients. After this first flush of bloom you may fertilize with osmocote time release pellets or fish emulsion. If you're unfamiliar with using fertilizer, don't do any extra feeding or you risk burning the stressed plant. Give it this year to recover and build a new root system; eventually it will send out more canes. Don't disturb or smother it with too much attention....See MoreOpinions on Ebb Tide
Comments (19)I have a couple plants of this variety; great colour, but in my garden's tough conditions it's a slow grower; I had to dig it up and put it in a pot. My plan now is to grow it on in the pot until it gets big and mature enough to handle the lack of regular irrigation,intense summer heat, and generally poor soil. However I must add that, up until recently, I've concentrated most of my garden efforts on climbers and OGRs, so I'm not used to the cultivation of floribundas. I think they, as a group, might just need more indulgence than the other varieties I mentioned....See MoreAn possible alternative to ebb tide and twilight zone
Comments (85)Gardening_7b I am not an expert, I just like purple and some of those are newer and small. Lol After looking at HMF, it looks like the Purple Princes are two different roses. My BPP was planted last fall so is very small, a little over a foot tall, but has bloomed and it was a medium-dark magenta so far, it seems very healthy so far. It may change when it matures. I live in z5a Wisconsin so can't comment on da "heat". We rarely get up to 95 degrees in the summer, we can get bad humidity and low 90's for 7-10 days in the summer just as -10-20 in the winter for the same number of days, 46 inches of rain per year average. :) Diane, your roses get so huge! I get some rogue canes that are 5' tall but so far nothing consistent. That Clown Prince is a very pretty rose with the variations of color. I put Ebb Tide so it gets late afternoon shade because I didn't know if it faded and the hottest time of the day here is about 4:00. We'll see what experience I get with Big Purple, it's always fun to compare with other areas of the country. :)...See MoreEbb Tide not thriving
Comments (25)My mother in law inherited my own root Ebb Tide when I moved and she is describing it as a bloom machine with amazing new growth. It is currently still at my old house, she wants to move it to her house but says she can't yet because it won't stop blooming and she wants to wait until it takes a breather. She is CO zone 4b, high desert at 6100 ft, and the soil is bentonite clay with sand and rocks. She takes wonderful care of all her roses so I am sure it is on a good watering schedule but it is under a tree so is quite shaded for half the day. I am debating getting Ebb Tide to grow here in Wyoming or trying another rose of a similar color just for kicks and giggles but I'd be happy to grow it again. Mine did come from High Country Roses and I have heard that their roses are tougher than most of the same varieties from other sources because they raise them at altitude in a more extreme climate....I'm happy to believe it from what I have seen....just my two cents on Ebb Tide......See Morebart bart
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