My 2021 (mostly) Rose Garden Video
Tammy (Southern Ont) Zone 4/5 USDA
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Some roses from my garden, mostly OGR
Comments (7)soooo beautiful, bgrose, and I'm so happy/thrilled that you are placing these very rare special roses on our Rose Gallery! I wish more antique rose people would post at our Gallery, because it lets us see all the rare historical roses. What a unique coloration Yuka is. Krista loves her Odier and Oger roses too and once recommended them as roses that would do really well in my zone. Alas, all pinks fade to white in my garden, so I can no longer get any pinks except for the deep, deep pinks. I've got an overload of pink roses that make my garden look like nothing but white roses, lol! Carol, I told Wes, a friend to either get Ispahan or Kazanlik, because those were the 2 roses that would have bloomed during Marie Antoinette's time. He was real fascinated by the painting of Marie Antoinette carrying her rose and wondered what pink rose it might have been. Ispahan or Kazanlik are very ancient and date in the very early 1700s, maybe even the late 1600s, when roses first came to Europe. They are once-bloomers, but the history goes waaaaaay back further than even the Old Blush Damask roses and are actually the ancestors of the very first European damask rose. That is if my memory serves me correctly. Probably the antiques people can help out in case my dates are screwed up. During the height of Marie Antoinette's reign, the Queen helped introduce them as the "haute couture" flower, lol! At the time there were just a bare handful of species of roses. Some of the Kazanlik did have enough petal layers though what I saw of the Peter Beales rose, but! I did tell Wes that I did think it was Ispahan over the Kazanlik.... Bgrose, your Ispahan would go beautifully with that painting :) Thanks for sharing all your Lovely roses....See MoreMy 2020 Rose Garden (Video)
Comments (6)It is a heaven on earth. I really love the way you landscape your garden. Everything is neat and extremely well designed. Thank you very much for sharing with us!...See More2021 as my rose year
Comments (17)rosesmi5a: Thank you for the above info. I take Gruss an coburg off from my wish-list. La Reine likes fluffy soil high in calcium (I broke my clay up months ahead with gypsum). La Reine does not like acidic soil and prefers alkaline soil. Since 2012 I bought at least 20 bands from Burlington roses and THEY ARE TOO SMALL to be planted smack into the ground, I always pot them up until they become 2-gallon-roots before planting in my rock-hard clay. Below is La Reine which I moved into my alkaline clay & no more blackspots like in previous location of high-phosphorus manure. I constantly have to lime it since it prefers higher pH (like my 1st La Reine which thrived for many years until I killed it with too much acidic gypsum on top). Perle d'Or winterized well in a pot in my unheated garage (covered with a thermal blanket). In May I took it out to plant outside in 100% fluffy soil, it died of spring frost. So Perle d'Or is sensitive to cold temp. I tried Perle d'Or TWICE and it died when planted outside in zone 5. Mehrin: I'm 3 hours from you & in poor drainage & soaking wet heavy & alkaline clay (pH near 8). I find that the red bagged Scott's top soil (sold at Walmart for $2.22 per bag) is great for roses since it has peatmoss for moisture (plus lime added). I tested the pH of that bag and it's neutral, versus very alkaline pH 8 of Ace Hardware's topsoil, versus alkaline pH 7.4 of Menard's top-soil. Menard's top soil gave me the worst result. Below roses, 2nd year own-root were planted in 100% bagged Scott's top-soil sold at Walmart: Below Marie Pavie is very vigorous in my heavy & rock-hard alkaline clay: Below Princess Charlene de Monaco, very vigorous. I should had put Princess Charlene in partial shade since blooms bleach to white in full-sun, plus too many blooms open all at once. Comte de Chambord is 10th-year own-root and NEEDS FAST DRAINAGE, best in a raised bed. I have 2, the one in the raised bed does better. The one in heavy clay I spent 2 hours digging a 3 feet deep x 2 feet wide hole. Both are 100% clean zero blackspots once the drainage is fast. I fixed my heavy clay with an ungodly amount of gypsum months in advance to speed up the drainage. The repeat is fast, it's starting its 2nd flush now in July 3, zone 5a. QUESTION FOR MEHRIN: I look into your link showing the progression of your bands. You did a fantastic job growing them in pots !! You have 2 types of pots: the black plastic versus the fabric-pot. Which pot gives the most solid & big root-growth for zone 5 winter survival? Also which own-roots are the most wimpy so far? Thank you....See MoreHuntington Rose Garden 2021
Comments (18)That pink rose probably has a nameplate hidden closer to the base, but it’s not similar to my Cl pinkie. It is probably 20foot or more across and 5-6 feet high. I should have had someone standing there for scale....See MoreTammy (Southern Ont) Zone 4/5 USDA
2 years agoTammy (Southern Ont) Zone 4/5 USDA
2 years agolast modified: 2 years agoThank you so much, Kitty!
Funny story about the bistro set. I found it used, for sale, in a kijiji ad. Some lady was moving and selling almost everything. The house was an hour away in another city, but worth the drive for the price and pristine condition.
When we arrived at the lady's house, she came to the door...and it as a long time family friend from my husband's side of the family. We had a huge laugh at the odds of that happening.
Oh, I wanted to suggest, if you're looking to add foxgloves, definitely try starting them from seed. One year, I bought three plants from the nursery, and they cost me something like ten dollars each. The next year, I bought two packets of seeds instead. They were SO easy to start and I ended up with two entire flats of them. Made a world of a difference. (They are toxic, but my dog is never unattended. He has his own side yard.)
The two varieties that will bloom the first year are Dalmatian and Camelot. (There might be others, but these are the ones I use) They live two years, but have been reseeding themselves nicely.
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Thought I'd share a picture I just took of Bliss Parfuma.
Oh my goodness, her fragrance is spectacular this year! I'm falling more and more in love with this rose. She's sitting beside me in a vase and I just want to drink in the scent.
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