Freedom Garden rose purchase
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Comments (2)Sweetheart, I find cool garden stuff all the time. If I brought it all home, I'm afraid my place would look like Sanford and Son. This particular shop (which IS my favorite, really) always has a great variety of garden stuff. There's a section in the front of the store with pots and ornaments, and there's iron stuff and fabulous vintage metal garden furniture out in the yard in front. The prices are great! Last year, I passed up a cast iron garden arch, with roses on it, and I'm sorry now that I did. I didn't follow my own rule ... if I see it and I love it, I buy it. I worry about where to put it later. (you should see the stuff I have stored in my sheds! I will probably introduce blog readers to the stash, one day. I tend to share a lot of weird stuff on my blog.) Have you thought about going to a salvage yard to see what you can find? We have two down this way (Caravati's and Governor's in Richmond, to be exact) and both have a good selection of stuff that can be repurposed into the garden. How about using mid-century decorative iron porch columns to support a trellis or pergola? Don't forget Craig's List! So many of my garden/building items have come from there. I have a whole shed full of cast-off windows that will we will use to complete my greenhouse later this year (she said, optimistically). The cobblestones that edge the bed on the south side of my house are a CL find, too. (so is my pick-up truck, which I consider to be garden-related.) The idea is to keep an open mind when one shops, and to always consider a "garden purpose" for an item that may not seem, at first, to be garden material ... if that's your style, of course. Connie...See MoreFreedom hedge roses - please help!
Comments (6)Hi, Indalyne! I know there is talk on here of moving roses in the fall, since that's when its cooling off; however, the people that are doing that are usually in CA or the south, where their roses never go totally dormant. For us, I believe I'd wait until next year to move them. If you do it now they may not have time to establish their roots before it freezes. I'd do it next spring right around when they're breaking dormancy. If you do have to move them now, don't prune after transplanting. The pruning will encourage new top growth, which may not be able to harden off before freeze. As far as fertilization goes, I believe that in the fall you want to be encouraging hardening off by giving a fertilizer low in nitrogen and high in potassium and phosphorus (maybe particularly potassium? I'm not sure). Anyway, hope that helps a little. Lara...See MoreThanksgiving Sale at Freedom Gardens!!! 20% off!!!
Comments (29)I went overboard - it was a sale :). And mostly roses that aren’t available elsewhere, so I figured I’d just do one big order. I have Rose de Rescht and like it, so got another, and James Austin had a run in with the dog and needed to be replaced. The first bunch will come next spring, the rest in fall. Caramella James Austin Landlust Prairie Joy Rose de Rescht Rosenstadt Zweibrucken Sandy The Gerbe Urdh Dream Land Eyes on Me Hansaland Mon Petit Chou Paw Maw Perennial Blush...See MoreHas anyone tried "Rosalind" from Peter Schneider at Freedom Gardens?
Comments (6)Sheila if you felt so inclined, maybe send a suggestion that an easy and quick way to label a photo photo for someone not very tech savvy is to just select "edit" and then use the little "T" to add a quick text box to the photo. If done soon after taking the photos, it would really help avoid the confusion of which rose is which in a jumble of photos, and avoid the potential loss of information that way concerning rare roses. It seems a shame to go through the trouble of preserving and propagating a rare rose just to be unsure of accurate photos of it... On an Android it looks like this:...See MoreSheila z8a Rogue Valley OR
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