Floribunda Rose - Sweet Rose of Mine (1st year - early blooms)
Hoang Ton - Zone 9a
2 years ago
Tallahassee FL - Zone 8B
2021 new variety from Jackson and Perkins. When opened, the blooms look similar to Olivia Rose Austin's blooms. I planted this in a less than full sun location so I won't know its real potential.
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please emergency help! 1st-time gardener-killed tree rose???
Comments (30)Hi, everyone! great news is that the Rosarian couple were very nice. I actually tried calling them last night but couldn't get through because they had their fax machine on. Then tonight they explained that they couldn't return my call because the number I had left them had been cut off by their answering machine. They too have not grown tree roses because like Karl had feared, rose trees do terrible in Kansas. Stupid me should also have thought far ahead about our tornado problems as well. I didn't think about this issue before the terrible winds this past weekend. Flower2sew, in Overland Park we got hit real bad. There is still debris from knocked over light poles on Hwy 69 from people crashing from the ice... But the snow lasted just one terrible day, it was very thick snow,and we were blasted with both ice and snow at once and in some parts of Overland Park, the cable lines and phone lines were down ...then argh, it shot up to near 60 degree warmth right the following day, then dropped down again the following evening. The rosarian couple agreed that they would never leave out the tree roses at this point because of last weekend's extreme swing of temperature (including this week) but they too felt I really needed to speak to a Master Rosarian, so they gave me the emergency helpline for the Rose Society. The nice rosarian couple I spoke to explained that they themselves have never grown tree roses because of how erratic Kansas weather can be in the spring and they said that the people they know who had rose trees all had either greenhouses or would go to a nursery and "rent" out a space for the winter. In other words they wouldn't know how to advise me on how to keep my roses indoors in my particular situation. They did feel that since my rose trees still have buds sprouting, that keeping them in a completely dark, cold, poorly insulated garage at this point is a question that only a master rosarian could answer. It is a tough call because no sane person/gardener would ever be in the crazy predicament that I am in now... I am doing crazy stuff like lightly spraying my roses with warm water in the morning and when I come home, then again before going to bed to keep them as close to a greenhouse effect and reducing my house temperature from 68 degrees to 65 so that I don't shock the roses when I bring them outside to 58 degree sunshine (but that makes me super cold indoors and I end up having to wear a few layers of clothing in the house and shivering under the covers when I try to sleep LOL). So hopefully I can reach the helpline before I get "outta control" and do more crazy outta control guesswork. Anyway, thank you EVERY One and All for your help and ongoing support! Hugs to each of you... P.S. forgot to say that to me the membership dues for the American Rose Society is very reasonable, and wouldnt have hesitated for a second had I not been so broke from all the training with Eluane and house payments but in due time if I can just make the baby steps and get both trees to survive....See More1st season rose disappointments
Comments (23)I don't think I'd worry too much about Abe. I bought both Queen of Sweden and Jubilee Celebration last spring and neither of them bloomed at all last year. This year they both bloomed in the spring and I think QoS is putting on some new buds now. I really think they need a while to settle in and root well before they start to really grow and bloom so be patient. I did buy a few this year that have not done anything yet. However, most of them were cheapie bagged roses and so not the best quality. If they make it fine. If not I won't be broken up about it. The only one that has been a bit of a disappointment is the very expensive mini, Cutie Pie, that I bought from a local nursery. When I picked it up in May it was loaded with buds and bloomed great. Since I dead headed it in mid June it has just sat there. Not one sign of new growth anywhere on it! I'm thinking of giving it a light pruning to see if that will stimulate some new growth....See MoreFloribunda/Shrub roses 2017
Comments (22)Everyone’s roses look so beautiful!! I hope mine look like all yours someday. 2017 was my first year of seriously gardening so all my plants are babies. I had 1 rose in 2016 but didn’t really know what I was doing and didn’t really care at the time. but here’s what some of my first year babies looked like (currently they’re under a blanket of snow lol): JFK roses year 1 (I have 5 of them because I learned the fragrance was amazing, they don’t have a scent yet but I expect they will once they get older) Double delight year 1 (allegedly - got it from tractor supply so not entirely sure) Lavender crush year 1 (the most beautiful intoxicating fragrance - planted it in July and within two months it has sprouted a brand new nasal cane which grew to over 5 feet tall!!) Sweet drift tree (my first rose back from 2016), the poor thing had a rough year, half the graft died but it got some decent new growth that I was able to gently “comb over” to cover the giant bald spot...See Morenewb rose grower: how early to detect problems in David Austin roses?
Comments (12)All the plants have buds and Munstead Wood is the first to bloom-- 9 flowers have opened and 9 more developing. I gave them water and nothing else for weeks, then as they started getting bigger, sprinklings of bloodmeal and half-doses of fish emulsion. At some point I tried giving them a bit of diluted potassium with indeterminate results. (Maybe because I got muriate of potash instead of the potassium chloride, sulfide or whatever it is that's supposed to be better?) Once I gave them water left over from cooking beans (no salt) and they seemed to like it fine. Sorry I don't have any pictures of the whole plants yet, but they do seem like they are taking off. Though Munstead Wood, Lady of Shallot, and Jude the Obscure are growing with big open spaces between canes-- I don't know if these are the reported David Austin octopus arms, or pest damage to terminal shoots that would otherwise fill out the center of the bush, or particular growth habit in Houston, TX weather, or if it's just something it'll grow out of after a year and some pruning. The other, younger two plants that I've messed with the least, Lady Emma Hamilton and Brother Cadfael, have much more attractive foliage and look more bushy/shrubby. LEH has sixteen buds already and is nicely rounded, while BC, who has been growing tall thick canes and took the longest to leaf out and bud, looks more like a sturdy column shape. They are all at least two to three and a half feet off the soil level. So far the scent on MW is very sweet, like berry candy and rosewater (rather than dried rose petals), and seems stronger after a fish emulsion feeding. Can't wait for the others! Thanks to everyone for being present on this forum. I've been going through a lot of posts and learning a bunch!...See MoreHoang Ton - Zone 9a
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2 years agolast modified: 2 years agoI planted Sweet Rose of Mine few weeks ago-bareroot. Shes in a prime sun location. she has more buds than about 15 of my other bareroots. I see she blooms in huge clusters. Mine may bloom in few days. Im so excited-Yours has tge most beautiful blooms!
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