Anyone grow Tradescant?
bart bart
2 years ago
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Comments (8)Hi Amberroses! I want to know EVERY rose you are growing *grin Well really can you just tell me one you have that is doing fantastic!? Oh and BTW, I grew up in St. Pete. I have the Tradescant in a place (along the side of my house) where it gets sun from early AM until approx. 2pm and then shade.. I also have Abraham Darby in the same place (a year older) and they both have beautiful foliage and the A.D. is blooming very well. I ALSO have a Golden Celebration in a large pot in the same area and the foliage looks great but only one bloom so far (not even a year old for me yet).. it's going in the ground soon. Lastly I have a Glamis Castle in a pot and it loves it.. it is on it's second year and is covered in blooms and seems to like it so much in the pot I am keeping it there for now.....See MoreTradescant or Bravehart
Comments (7)I have been pushing Braveheart for some time now. Wonderful 4 inch full double dark red blooms that stay dark red and last a long time on the bush. I can't remember now if it blooms continuously, but I know it blooms a lot. It has Dark Lady in its ancestry, as you will be able to tell from its bloom. My second year Braveheart suffered some damage in the big freeze last Easter, so I'm not sure what its mature height will be, but it was about 3x3 this year and therefore may well reach the 4x4 predicted in the catalog descriptions. It does not have a strong fragrance, but I'm no good at describing its light fragrance. In my garden its pretty good on disease-resistance, although it may need a occasional spray. If you check the search function above, you should be able to find some old postings and pics on Braveheart. In the meantime, here is my pic which I have shown in the past. Braveheart I really like my Braveheart and would replace it if something were ever to happen to it. Kate...See MoreThe last Tradescant
Comments (51)@mjmello52, Palatine, is the name of the place. I wrote them and they will have it in the fall. However. I was reading on their site and they require a minimum purchase of three roses. That isnt so bad, but the shipping (to Texas) for those three roses, according to their site, is @ $150.00 +. I love Tradescant so much that if I have to, I will find a way to pay it... but I sure cant to afford to, lol. @ shopshop. I dont know if you read the thread I posted on the antique side, but that was how I lost all of my roses... in a home sale. I had no idea that I wouldnt be able to dig them up and put regular bushes back in. When I found out after I had a contract, I practically begged the young man who bought it to please let me take them, but he wouldnt. He didnt want them, but he wanted to choose his own bushes, at a time when he was ready to do it. I cant blame him for that. 100% my fault. Now I know. But.. 120 old garden roses, with quite a few Austins thrown in here and there. All mature, all big and beautiful. That was 10 years ago. I never grew another rose until I bought this house recently. And, they are in containers for now, lol. I still cant believe Tradescant is gone. It's such a great rose that I cannot understand why they got rid of it. Especially as there is nothing even like it now....See MoreTradescant and Claire - Early English Roses
Comments (9)Beautiful photos, Rick. I agree with your comments about Claire Roses wanting to get big even when young. I bought a 1 gallon pot of this variety with 3 rooted cuttings, 2 houses ago in the 1990's. I separated the cuttings and planted them around 6 ft apart as an equilateral triangle. By late fall each plant had 2 or 3 canes that were 6-8 ft tall. in the next spring, there was a spray of a few blossoms at the end of each cane of each plant. I had read about 'pegging' and 'self pegging', so decided to try these techniques on Claire Rose and a trio of specimens of 'The Pilgrim'. Canes of 'Claire Rose' were far to stiff to consider 'self-pegging' (but worked beautifully with 'The Pilgrim'. By summer of that year there were around 4-7 canes each on each of the 'Claire Rose' plants that were 7 to 10 feet talI, and I used used landscape staples to 'peg' each of the canes for each of the 3 Claire Rose plants. The axillary buds (perhaps 15 to 25 on each cane) all produced a flowering shoot that was around 8 inches or so, bearing around 5 to 7 flowers each! So rather than a single flower cluster at the ends of 6 canes (5 flowers per cluster x 6 canes = 30 flowers per flush per plant), you can get flowers clusters on each flowering shoot of each of the 6 canes (5 flowers per cluster x 6 canes x 20 flower clusters per cane = 600 flowers per cluster)!!! The petals on this rose do not fall off the flowers of this, so the flowers last a long time on the plant; eventually (1.5 to 2 weeks?), the petals finally turn brown and are unsightly. When this happens, you can trim each flowering shoot to 1 or 2 nodes, and you will have another crop of flowers in around 6 weeks or so in my area. And so far a rather modest amount of work (pegging), you can increase flower production by a factor of 20 or so: definitely worth the extra effort if you have room. The canes of 'The Pilgrim' are quite long (8-12 feet) flexible, so for this one, rather than just pegging the canes to the ground, you can take each cane and form a vertically aligned loop by taking each cane and bending it straight down and tying it to the crown of the plant. Through this process, you will increase the number of flowers per flush by a factor of 20 to 30. I have 3 specimens of 'Claire Rose' in my garden now but can't peg them because of lack of adequate space. When pegged, this rose needs a circular area of 10 to 12 feet diameter, and I don't have this much space presently in this part of my garden. I can manage these 3 as 5 to 6 ft, tall shrubs by pruning heavily between flushes. I do have 1 grafted (Rosa multiflora) and 2 own-root specimens of CR. In my area, CR does fine on its own roots. Rick, I have sent you at least 4 emails since February and not received a response. Do you have a new email address? I can send them again if you somehow missed them. I have been asked by Jill Perry at the San Jose Heritage Rose Garden, to root around 30 early Austin roses, to replace those specimens lost in their garden. I now have plants for 24 of these, which I have growing in 1 gallon pots. I have extra plants of many of these, including 'Prospero' (which is one of the few that benefits from a rootstock) and 'Jayne Austin', which does fine here on its own roots. Let me know if you'd like to see a list of my extra plants for use either in your personal garden or for the Summerland Ornamental Gardens....See Morebart bart
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